The Faceless Billionaire Celebrity Wife-Chapter 300: Impressed.

The door was pushed open at the very next moment and Cyprian rushed in, dark circles lining her eyes. She took in Shikera’s appearance in one fell glance and a smile broke out on her lips.

"Someone looks beautiful," she drawled.

"And someone looks horrid. Didn’t you sleep well, Rian?" Shikera asked.

Cyprian rolled her eyes as she fell on the bed. "More like I wasn’t allowed to sleep at all. Raymond was a beast and I clearly told him I have to work today. Aaargh!" she groaned.

"And you are still lying on the bed? Don’t you have to get ready to leave for work?" Shikera questioned. Without waiting for an answer, she went to pull Cyprian up from the bed and pushed her to the door.

Seeing that her friend was serious in sending her out, Cyprian hurriedly stopped her, "Wait! Wait! I came to borrow your clothes. While you weren’t here, I have been working more in front of the camera than on field so I can’t just wear anything. You think there’s something for me?"

"I don’t think I have anything suitable here. Will you come home with me and let’s check some out?" Shikera asked. She noticed Cyprian’s calculating the time that would be spent on that, and spoke up, "I am talking about our home here in the estate. Shouldn’t take us more than ten minutes."

Cyprian jumped at the opportunity instantly. That would be better as she would have a long range of clothes to chose from.

"Let’s get on our way then," Shikera said. "We can also leave for work together since I’m going there too. Just wanted to take one of the cars at home."

★★★

Ignoring the number of eyes her presence had drawn, Shikera pushed the door open and stepped into the conference room to feel another massive number of gazes descend on her. A meeting was ongoing and she had known that even before she came in, as her intent was to meet everyone in the room all at once.

She wanted to apologize.

Maxwell was there, sitting at the chair nearest to the door which she was standing by. His eyes widened in surprise as he recognized her, standing up immediately.

"Shikera?!"

"Maxwell...Hi!" Shikera waved her hand, her lips pulled up in a rigid smile. She swept her gaze around the room, noticing the way everyone gaped at her in shock. It was as if they hadn’t been expecting her return.

"How have you been? Did you enjoy your vacation?"

Shikera raised her brows Maxwell, confusion evident in her eyes. "Vacation? Didn’t i—"

"Question and answer, Kera. How was your vacation?" Maxwell repeated. It was obvious he was trying to stop her from mentioning her resignation.

"Well, it was great," Shikera replied.

Maxwell clapped his hands excitedly, extending his hand for an handshake which Shikera took.

"Since you’re back looking more refreshed than ever. I take it that you want to resume work immediately, right?" he asked, an earnest plea in his gaze. Ever since she left, the Elovien’s Spotlight team had expected to be disbanded immediately if another anchor wasn’t assigned to them, but none of the sort happened.

The first week which went by without a presentation caused a decrease in their viewers rate, until DL Corporation invested in the show. That way, they had been able to create more hype about the next presentation even though their show anchor was absent. Now that she came back, Maxwell didn’t want to expend the show’s luck so he was asking her to start immediately.

"That’s..." Shikera began. She still had not gone to the hospital for a check-up and was not sure what the diagnosis would be, so she was hesitating to start work immediately.

"Is there a problem?" Maxwell probed. 𝑓𝘳𝘦𝑒𝑤𝑒𝘣𝘯ℴ𝘷𝘦𝓁.𝑐𝑜𝑚

Shikera was about to reply when she heard the sound of her phone ringing. She took it out to swipe the red dial but stopped when she saw who was calling.

"Ethan?" she said as soon as the call connected. Hearing his voice reply from the other side, she breathed a sigh of relief and excused herself from the room.

"Ethan, where have you been? You promised to be at the hotel when I wake up but you didn’t come. Why?" she questioned, her tone showing how displeased she was.

"I’m sorry, Kera. Why don’t I explain when I get home? Where are you?" he asked.

"Preston," Shikera replied. "Are you on your way home?"

"Yes, actually. Want me to pick you up?"

Shikera refused, "No, I will drive myself. I might be a little late."

"It’s alright. I also have to take care of some stuffs. By the way..." he trailed off, inciting suspense in Shikera’s heart at whatever he wanted to say.

"What?" she asked.

"I just wanted to say I was extremely pleased with your act of service the other day, Miss Anderson. And I agree to remove my mask and reveal my face on your show. Anytime and any day is fine by me so you don’t have to worry about patterning anything to my preference and comfort. Bye."

The beep sound from the call disconnecting made Shikera realize that she had really heard what she just thought she heard. Ethan DeLoach agreed to reveal his face on her show?! No...She was getting the hotcake of the whole industry so easily?!

"Shikera!!!"

Hearing someone scream her name, she looked up and stepped away in time to avoid Skyler crashing into her.

"Oh my goodness, Sky! Tone down on the scream," she chuckled, when Skyler, barely able to stop herself from running ran straight into the door of the conference room.

"I can’t. You’re finally back and I can sleep well," she breathed out in relief.

"Why would you be the one short of sleep? Even i was able to sleep under a strange person’s roof," Shikera teased. The smile on her face slowly disappeared when she saw how serious Skyler looked. "What’s the problem, Sky?"

"You, of course. You think I am joking that I can’t sleep? I live in fear everyday that your husband might blow up in anger and decide to punish me for not contacting him immediately you left me that day. You think it’s easy to live out of Ethan DeLoach’s favor?!"

As Skyler’s voice grew louder and louder in agitation, Shikera hurriedly pulled her away from where they had been standing to an hallway with no single human in it.

"Why were you screaming, Skyler? And...about my husband..." she trailed off, her eyes clouding with numerous questions.