The Ex and Her Riches

After jotting down the two series of numbers, Cedrick kept the repaired phone and placed a bank card on the table.

“This is your compensation. You know the rules; keep this matter to yourself.”

He sounded so icy that there was not a hint of emotion in his voice.

Owen nodded anxiously. “Don’t worry, Mr. Jenson. I understand.”

After retrieving the phone, Cedrick made his way back to the Federal Bureau of Investigation swiftly.

It had been over twenty hours since Gwendolyn went missing.

As Harris Group needed to operate per usual, Cedrick had called its personal assistant, instructing to have all schedules and contract-signing events postponed.

To avoid causing a buzz, he told the Harris family nothing about this incident, instead focusing on investigations.

After running a check on the two unsaved phone numbers, the man learned that they belonged to real people and came from a hospital overseas.

The numbers belonged to a female doctor whom the owner of the phone had contacted.

While this didn’t seem to help much, Cedrick couldn’t help but feel dubious about the two overseas numbers.

Nico and Swain made progress by noon.

After going through every road’s surveillance footage, they saw that the black vehicle had last appeared on a market street in a certain small town called Quawak.

There were little to no surveillance cameras in that rural area, so the Federal Bureau of Investigation could only secure a vague location of the car.

Furthermore, there was no footage of the vehicle leaving the town.

Cedrick used a red marker to circle Quawak on the map, then instructed, “Nico, get Team Four ready to come with me to Quawak. Also, tell the reserve police in this area to seal off all of Quawak’s roads by today.”

Nico appeared stumped. “I’ll go instead. Quawak’s pretty far from Salinsburgh, so it’ll take a long time to get there and come back. If you were to go there personally, you wouldn’t make it back to the lab in time to keep Benny and Zendy company. There’s no way I’d be able to handle them by myself.”

to find his wife while watching

pause, he eventually settled with

the kids. I’ll come back as soon as I can,” he stated adamantly, showing no

convince the man otherwise, Nico said nothing more and did as

for the

before he could even see to the tragic case of

to what had happened to the Clouds, all the upper-class households in Salinsburgh were now on high alert, worried

remained dark after the rain, making the

ten hours later, Cedrick got into

trip had been completely

to slip away. The more we try to go after them, the more they seem to vanish. We couldn’t even find that

to make any progress from this blanket search, and whatever new intel they had

It’ll be past eleven by the time I get back. How

began to analyze all the results of their investigations from the past two days, along with how their target had been eluding

even a repeat offender would ever know the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s methods—or Cedrick’s, for that

of Investigation

point, Cedrick couldn’t help but remember

suspicions in his heart

finally arrived back

tiredness in his eyes, the

with silence and a dimly lit bedside

sat next to the bed, watching over the children while on the verge

and Zendaya lay in bed, seemingly having fallen

to get them

at first, but after Benny started acting like Gwendolyn and

was taken aback upon

up the role of a parent and helped put Zendy to

a sense of relief washed

Cedrick. Get some rest in the room next door. I’ll

I’ll stay here. Summer must be waiting for you at home, so you should go. I don’t want

of Summer sitting anxiously on the couch waiting for him. “In that case…