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.

brief pause, he eventually settled with his

go. If I don’t get back in time, help me look after the kids. I’ll

the man otherwise, Nico said nothing more and did as told so the latter could leave and return

day for

before he could even see to the tragic

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

skies remained dark after the rain, making the entire city

Cedrick got into

trip had

the suspect had managed to slip away. The more we try to go after

blanket search, and whatever new intel they had

It’ll be past eleven by the

cast his worries aside and began to analyze all the results of their investigations

the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s methods—or Cedrick’s, for that

person seemed to understand the Federal Bureau of Investigation and

but remember

in his heart only

was midnight when Cedrick finally arrived back at

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

with silence and a

over the children while

bed, seemingly having fallen asleep long

actually managed to get them to sleep? Unbelievable,”

slight embarrassment. “You overestimate me. I really have to give it to them for behaving so well tonight, though. Zendy threw such a huge fit at first, but after Benny started acting like Gwendolyn and read Zendy a story, the girl actually fell

taken aback

a parent and helped put Zendy to sleep while I

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

tired, Cedrick. Get some rest in the room next door. I’ll watch over Benny and Zendy,”

chair, and sat at the bedside. “It’s fine. I’ll stay here. Summer must be waiting for you

the thought of Summer sitting anxiously on the couch waiting for him. “In that case…