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 over

eventually settled

the kids. I’ll come back as soon as

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

hectic day for the Federal

could even see

households in Salinsburgh were now

after the rain, making the entire

hours later, Cedrick got

had

town having been closed off, the suspect had managed to slip away. The more we try to go after them, the more they seem to vanish. We couldn’t even

progress from this blanket search, and

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

results of their investigations

would ever know the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s methods—or Cedrick’s, for that matter—so

this person seemed to understand the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Cedrick like the back of his

Cedrick couldn’t help but remember his old comrade on the

suspicions in his heart only

when Cedrick finally

long lashes unable to conceal the tiredness in his eyes, the man pushed the door open and heard no sounds

met with silence and a

bed, watching over the children while on the

Zendaya lay in bed,

“You actually managed to get them to sleep?

slight embarrassment. “You overestimate me. I really have 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 girl

aback upon

parent and helped put Zendy to sleep

little boy, a sense of relief washed over him

rest in the room next door. I’ll

must be waiting for you at home, so you

head in shame at the thought of Summer sitting anxiously on the couch waiting for