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.

pause, he eventually settled with

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

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

hectic day for the

see to the tragic case of the Cloud family’s

households in Salinsburgh were now on

remained dark after the rain, making the

hours later, Cedrick

trip had been

managed to slip away. The more we try to go after them, the

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

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

cast his worries aside and began to analyze all the results of their investigations from the past two days, along with

would ever know the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s

understand the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Cedrick like the back

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

his

when Cedrick finally arrived back

his eyes, the man pushed the door open and heard

he was met with silence and a

the bed, watching over the

in bed, seemingly having fallen asleep

managed to get 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 asleep. Then, he went to

was taken aback upon hearing

role of a parent and helped put

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

some rest in the room next

walked over slowly, pulled up a chair, and sat at the 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

lowered his head 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 back tomorrow