The Ex and Her Riches novel (Gwendolyn and Maverick)

There was pin-drop silence in the surveillance room as everyone waited for an update.

Nobody dared say a word when they felt the intimidating aura that Cedrick exuded.

Cedrick had an icy-cold look in his eyes as he glared at the screen.

The time Swain managed to track the GPS signal from Gwendolyn’s phone was exactly when the car stopped outside the surveillance camera’s field of view.

That was way too much of a coincidence.

However, that car had left the moment they decided to head toward Xanthon Highway. Cedrick could only watch as the car, which Gwendolyn could be in, disappeared from sight.

“Mr. Jenson! Chief Jaeger! Chief Swain! We’ve discovered something!” said a police officer dressed in a raincoat as he came running in through the door.

He then quickly took his raincoat off and retrieved a piece of evidence that he had kept safely inside his pocket.

“Mr. Jenson, this is what we managed to find on the highway after searching the blind spots of the two surveillance cameras. It was found at a very obvious spot, so I’m not sure how useful it will be,” the police officer continued while handing it over to Cedrick.

Cedrick’s expression slid into a frown as he took the phone over and saw that it had Gwendolyn’s favorite phone case on it.

“Boss, that’s Mrs. Jenson’s phone!” Swain exclaimed in shock.

Cedrick stared at the screen of the phone in silence as he unlocked it. Apparently, it had been formatted and put on flight mode, which was why their calls couldn’t get through.

In the phone’s memo, he saw a sentence that read: It looks like your wife really is your weakness, Cedrick!

Each word sounded incredibly menacing and threatening.

Swain gasped anxiously from the side. “It looks like they really are holding Mrs. Jenson captive!”

Cedrick’s eyes reddened with hatred and rage as he glared at the memo on the phone. His body exuded a terrifying aura as his veins bulged underneath his skin.

face turned pale

on the car. The license plate is fake, and

he ordered, “Continue investigating it! Check the footage from all surveillance cameras in the

this back to the Federal Bureau of Investigation and have the technicians restore its data from before it was formatted. I want to

Swain replied as he whipped out a clear plastic bag and

that, everyone ran off to carry

still raining late at

absent-mindedly walked back to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. With his wife’s whereabouts still unknown, he couldn’t bring himself to go home and face the questioning

your wife really

from the memo kept

he could barely breathe

life! It took me almost everything just to get her to turn back

his heart, Cedrick retrieved the box of cigarettes from his drawer, switched off the lights in his office,

particularly bright in the darkness of the office and would

was reading Zendaya a story in the

to his poor storytelling skills, however,

had to keep reading on for

the middle of the night by the sound of

glanced about and saw Zendaya sobbing at the edge

eyes had turned red from all

have a nightmare?” he asked while giving her a

his muscular arms

Zendaya mumbled incoherently while sobbing, but Charles was able to

mommy won’t abandon you two, and your daddy and I will protect her. It was just a nightmare, Zendy. Dreams aren’t real,” he said in a soft voice while gently

shirt to wipe her tears and snot as she continued, “I miss Mommy,

silent when he

was crying so much that she started hiccupping, Charles had no choice