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.”

wife while

brief pause, he eventually settled with his

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

nothing more and

for the Federal Bureau of

even see to the tragic case of the Cloud family’s

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

skies remained dark after the rain, making the entire

Cedrick got into

trip had been

the whole town having been closed off, the suspect had managed to slip away. The more we try to go after them, the more they seem

and whatever new intel they

at the dark sky and turned to his watch. It’ll be past eleven by the time I get back. How

their investigations from the past two days, along with how their target

a repeat offender would ever know the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s methods—or

Investigation and Cedrick like the back of

help but remember his old comrade

his heart

finally arrived back at

the man pushed the door open and heard

was met with silence and

watching over the children while on the verge of dozing

bed, seemingly having fallen asleep long

actually managed to get them to sleep? Unbelievable,” he

threw such a huge fit at first, but after Benny started acting like Gwendolyn and read Zendy a story, the girl actually fell asleep. Then, he went to bed with her without

aback

of a parent and

relief washed over him

room next door. I’ll

must be

on the couch