The Ex and Her Riches novel (Gwendolyn and Maverick)

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.”

Cedrick had to find his wife while watching over his children.

he eventually settled with his

I’ll come back as soon as I can,” he stated adamantly, showing no room for

nothing more and did

a hectic day for the Federal Bureau of

himself with investigations before he could even see to the tragic case of the Cloud

households in Salinsburgh were now on high alert, worried about being the next possible

dark after the rain,

Cedrick got into his

trip had

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

make any progress from this blanket search, and whatever new intel they

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

investigations from the past two days, along with how their target had

offender would ever know the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s methods—or

of Investigation and Cedrick like the back of

couldn’t help but remember his old comrade on

in his heart

Cedrick finally arrived back at the

lashes unable to conceal the tiredness in his eyes, the man pushed the

was met with silence and a dimly

watching over the children while on the verge

bed, seemingly having fallen asleep long

“You actually managed to get them to sleep?

such a huge fit at first, but after Benny started acting like Gwendolyn and read Zendy a story, the girl actually fell asleep. Then, he went to

aback upon hearing

role of a parent and helped put

of relief washed over him after a

some rest in the room next door. I’ll watch over Benny and

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 your quiet time

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