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.”

his wife while

he eventually settled with his

after the kids. I’ll come back as soon as I

that he couldn’t convince the man otherwise, Nico said nothing more and did as told so

for

could even see to the tragic

all the upper-class households in Salinsburgh were

remained dark after the rain, making the entire

later, Cedrick

had

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 to vanish. We couldn’t even find that black car from last

any progress from this blanket search, and whatever new intel

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

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

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

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

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

in his heart only

finally arrived back at the

in his eyes, the man pushed the door open and heard no

silence and a

the children while on the verge of

bed, seemingly having fallen

managed to get them

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

aback upon

role of a parent and

sense of relief washed over him after a long

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

the bedside. “It’s fine. I’ll stay here. Summer must be waiting for you at home, so you should go. I don’t want to bother

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