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.

dare say a word. His face turned

we have received the report on the car. The license plate is fake, and the same goes for

“Continue investigating it! Check the footage from all surveillance cameras in the city! I want to know where the car was

and continued, “Bring this back to the Federal Bureau of Investigation and have

clear plastic bag and carefully placed the phone

ran off

raining late at

unknown, he couldn’t bring himself to go home and face the questioning

looks like your wife really is your

kept replaying itself in

could barely breathe as he slumped tiredly against

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

of guilt and self-blame filled his heart, Cedrick retrieved the box of cigarettes from his drawer, switched off the lights in his office, and began puffing away in the

of the office and would intensify from time to

was reading Zendaya

storytelling skills, however,

a result, he had to keep reading on for a really long time before she fell

suddenly woken up in the middle of the night by the sound of

about and saw Zendaya sobbing at the edge of

Charles to see that her eyes

nightmare?” he asked

his muscular arms and buried her face in his

of Mommy… She was injured and didn’t want us anymore…” Zendaya mumbled incoherently while sobbing, but Charles was able to figure

will protect her. It was just a nightmare, Zendy. Dreams aren’t real,”

snot as she continued, “I miss Mommy, Uncle Charles! Could

silent when

crying so much that she started hiccupping,