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.

eventually

kids. I’ll come back as soon as I can,” he stated adamantly, showing

more

was a hectic day for the Federal Bureau of

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

to the Clouds, all the upper-class households in Salinsburgh were now on high alert, worried about

after the rain, making the entire city

hours later, Cedrick got into

had been completely

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

progress from this blanket search, and whatever new intel they had received earlier

his watch. It’ll be past eleven by the time I get back. How is Nico handling the

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

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

the Federal Bureau of Investigation

this point, Cedrick couldn’t help but remember his old comrade on the run—Joe

in his heart

when Cedrick finally arrived

his eyes, the man pushed the door

was met with silence and a dimly lit bedside

to the bed, watching over the children

Zendaya lay in bed, seemingly having fallen asleep

surprised. “You actually managed to get them to sleep? Unbelievable,”

first, but after Benny started acting like Gwendolyn

taken aback

a parent and helped put Zendy to sleep while I

the little boy, a sense of relief washed

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

I’ll stay here. Summer must be waiting

the couch waiting for