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 his

back in time, help me look after the kids. I’ll

he couldn’t convince the man otherwise, Nico said nothing more and did as told so the latter could leave and return

a hectic day for the

with investigations before he could even see to the

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

the rain, making the entire

later, Cedrick

trip had been

more we try to go after them, the more they seem to vanish. We couldn’t even find that black car from

search, and whatever new intel

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

the results of their investigations from the past two days, along with

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

to understand the Federal Bureau of Investigation and

but remember his old comrade on

his heart only grew

was midnight when Cedrick finally arrived back at

to conceal the tiredness in his eyes, the man pushed the door

he was met with silence and a dimly

watching over the

bed, seemingly having fallen asleep

“You actually managed to

I really have to give it to them for behaving so well tonight, though. Zendy threw such a huge fit at first,

taken aback upon

and helped put Zendy to sleep while I wasn’t

little boy, a sense of relief washed over him after a long

the room next door. I’ll watch over Benny

slowly, pulled up a chair, and sat at the bedside. “It’s fine. I’ll stay here. Summer must be waiting for you at home, so you should

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