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.

a brief pause, he eventually settled with his prior decision

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

man otherwise, Nico said nothing more and did as told

for the Federal

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

after the rain, making the entire

hours later, Cedrick got into

trip had been completely

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 even

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

and turned to his watch. It’ll be past eleven by the

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

even a repeat offender would ever know the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s methods—or Cedrick’s,

the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Cedrick

help but remember his old comrade on the run—Joe

his heart

was midnight when Cedrick finally arrived back

eyes, the man pushed the

was met with silence and a

next to the bed, watching over the children while on the verge

in bed, seemingly

“You actually managed to get them to

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

aback

of a parent and helped put Zendy

of relief washed

tired, Cedrick. Get some rest in the room next door. I’ll

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

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