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.”

find his wife while

pause, he eventually settled with his prior decision

me look after the kids. I’ll

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

a hectic day for the Federal Bureau

investigations before he could even see to the tragic case of the Cloud family’s

in Salinsburgh were now on high alert, worried about being the next possible

rain, making the entire city

hours later, Cedrick

trip had

to go after them, the more they seem

and whatever new intel they had received

It’ll be past eleven by the time

aside and began to analyze all the results of their investigations from the past two days, along

know the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s methods—or Cedrick’s, for

the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Cedrick like

Cedrick couldn’t help but remember his old comrade

in his heart only grew

when Cedrick finally arrived back at the

in his eyes, the man pushed the door open and heard

he was met with silence and a dimly

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

bed, seemingly having fallen asleep

to get them to

to give it to them for behaving so well tonight, though. Zendy threw such a huge fit at first, but after Benny started acting like Gwendolyn and read Zendy a story, the

aback upon

took up the role of a parent and helped put Zendy to

sense of relief washed over

Get some rest in the room next door. I’ll watch over Benny and Zendy,”

Summer must be waiting for you at home, so you should go. I don’t want to bother

lowered his head in shame at the thought of Summer sitting anxiously on the couch waiting for him. “In that case… have a