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

go. If I don’t get back in time, help me look after the kids. I’ll come back as soon as I can,” he stated

couldn’t convince the man otherwise, Nico said nothing more and

hectic day for

see to the tragic case

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

after the rain, making

Cedrick got into his

had been completely

town having been closed 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

make any progress from this blanket search, and whatever new intel they had received earlier was of no

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

began to analyze all the results of their investigations from the

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

the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Cedrick

this point, Cedrick couldn’t help but remember his old comrade

in his heart only grew

Cedrick finally arrived back at the

in his eyes, the man

he was met with silence and

next to the bed, watching over the children while

in bed, seemingly having

to get them to

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

aback upon

up the role of a parent and helped put Zendy to

little boy, a sense of relief washed

some rest in the room next door.

slowly, pulled up a chair, and sat at the bedside. “It’s fine. I’ll stay here. Summer must be waiting

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