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

after the kids. I’ll

said nothing more and

for the Federal Bureau

could even see to the

Clouds, all the upper-class households in Salinsburgh were

dark after the rain,

ten hours later, Cedrick got into

had been

we try to go after them, the more they seem to vanish. We couldn’t even find that black car from last

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

his watch. It’ll be past eleven by the time I get back.

the results of their investigations from the past two days, along

repeat offender would ever know the Federal Bureau

understand the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Cedrick like

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

suspicions in his heart only grew

when Cedrick finally

unable to conceal the tiredness in his eyes, the man pushed

with silence and a dimly lit bedside

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

and Zendaya lay in bed, seemingly having fallen asleep long

managed to get them to

well tonight, though. Zendy threw such a huge fit at first, but after Benny started acting like Gwendolyn and read

taken aback upon

role of a parent and helped put Zendy to sleep

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

some rest in the room next door. I’ll

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 bother your quiet time

the couch waiting for him.

Cedrick nodded.

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