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

kids. I’ll come back as soon as I can,” he stated adamantly, showing

Nico said nothing more and

was a hectic day for the

could even see to the tragic case

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

rain, making the

later, Cedrick got into his

trip had been

the whole 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 even find that black

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

the dark sky and turned to his watch. It’ll be past eleven by the time I get

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

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

understand the Federal Bureau of Investigation and

Cedrick couldn’t help but remember his old comrade

in his heart only grew

Cedrick finally arrived

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

was met with silence and a dimly lit

the children while on the verge

Zendaya lay in bed,

managed to

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

taken aback upon

took up the role of a parent and

sense of relief washed over him after a long

Cedrick. Get some rest in the room

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 with

sitting anxiously on the couch waiting for him.

Cedrick nodded.

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