The Faceless Billionaire Celebrity Wife-Chapter 326 - 72 Hrs (11) Trouble Looms
He recognized her immediately.
Shikera was in the operation theatre so the only person who looked like her and could be walking around right now was Elizabeth... Jordan.
"Hi," she greeted, a small smirk tugging at the corner of her lips.
"Who let you in?" Raymond asked, ignoring her greeting.
"Your boss."
"Not Ethan," he said, his words sounding more like a question than a statement.
"Except you have another boss besides him," Elizabeth shrugged. "Do you?"
"You have to leave," Raymond stated. He knew he should probably let her see Ethan but that would only cause more harm than necessary, with the latter in his current state.
Ethan had handled the matter with Elizabeth and her mother all by himself, disappearing for a few weeks. No one had actually expected either of the mother and daughter to be alive at the moment but seeing her here...it meant Ethan had truly spared them.
"I can’t leave. I have to see your boss," Elizabeth replied, refusing to leave.
"Except you are mentally prepared to leave here with a bullet in your head," Raymond said, pressing a button on his wrist as he spoke.
The sounds of hurried footsteps echoed along the hallway as black clothed guards approached them.
"Get her out of here and keep her under tight security until you get the order to let her go," he instructed.
"You can’t do this!" Elizabeth snapped, a flicker of determination in her eyes as she threatened, "If I really do leave right now, I won’t return no matter how much you guys beg me!"
"Don’t worry about that. We also know no amount of pleas can raise the dead," Raymond deadpanned. He gave a small nod to the guards and two of them went to stand on either sides of Elizabeth, staring fiercely down at her.
"If the news that you’re holding a Jordan hostage leaks out, you’ll be the ones to be punished for it. You know what to do to prevent that."
"Yes Sir!"
Watching as the guards escorted Elizabeth away, he took out his phone and fired off instructions to the other guards in the hospital. With all members of the Mega families converging in one place today and their meeting in public knowledge, no amount of elite guards would be enough to guarantee they were kept protected.
He walked down the hallway, turning the corner and broke into a sprint to arrive at the elevator faster.
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Ethan slumped into the hard couch that had been behind him all this time, the minute he saw the green light that lit up the operation room signifying the surgery was a success.
It had only been two hours but it felt like years already.
His eyes found Kyle’s through the glass screen to see him mouth,
"She will be alright..."
"For the meantime," Krystal added, a glum expression dominating her face.
Without sparing a second more, he rose from the couch and took long strides out of the room to meet Krystal and Kyle halfway through their way out of the Operating theatre.
"Will they be fine?" he asked.
"For now," Krystal replied, avoiding his scrutinizing gaze.
He asked again, "Till when?"
"I can’t really determine that at the moment. Actually, she is in a better state than most of the other people involved in the same accident. The only added risk to her state was the shock..."
Ethan listened attentively, like he really could understand what Krystal was talking about when all he wanted was to dash out of there and find Shikera, see her face, and get the bloodied image from earlier out of his memories.
"When can I see her?" he questioned.
"Anytime you wish," she replied. "But we are expecting her awake in a few hours or at most, days. In the meantime, we’ll carry out more cross-examinations on her and see what the next step is. Would you like to see her now?"
Ethan shook his head. 𝘧𝑟𝑒𝑒𝘸𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝓁.𝘤𝘰𝓂
"I will be okay as long as they are alright. You two..." His eyes moved from Krystal to Kyle. "Your families are present. Tight security has been mounted in several locations so you don’t have to bother with people seeing you," he assured them and turned away.
Raymond arrived just then, giving a curt bow to all three of them present at the moment.
"They are waiting," he informed, when Ethan raised his brows in a questioning arch, and added, "There’s an extra person though. Ashley Zuresh."
"How did she get in?"
"I let her in," Raymond admitted. "She introduced herself as Miss Anderson’s godmother and brought with her Mrs Natalia Anderson power of attorney. I had no choice but to grant her passage."
Without looking back at the others face, Ethan said, "An outsider is present. You don’t have to go if you would like to let your identity remain hidden."
Kyle shrugged. "What’s there to keep hidden? If she’s there right now, then there’s no way she hasn’t met King Reynolds himself who is absolutely not to be compared to a mere prince like me. Besides, I’m introducing myself with this fake face so none of them will actually recognize me later on."
Ethan ignored him. If his brain wasn’t filled with only thoughts of Shikera right now, maybe he would have reminded Kyle that he was the fucking heir and crown prince to King Reynolds. If anything, his identity was much more important than his father’s.
"For me," Krystal broke the silence as they walked down the hallway, "I believe Ashley Zuresh knows the implication of revealing anything she sees today to the public. Not one, not two, but seven families will be after her. She’s surely not gonna risk it."
They arrived at the VIP lounge room where Ruthlyn, Cole, and countless black-clothed and armed elite guards stood at the door. Cyprian leaped up from the chair she had been sitting to join Raymond halfway through.
Her eyes searched his eyes before moving over to Ethan’s and when she didn’t find what she had been looking for, she let out a huge sigh of relief.
"I will wait here, Sir," Raymond said, stepping aside as they got to the door. His arm, wrapped around Cyprian, tensed as Ethan pushed the door open to step into the room.
All Mega family members meeting in one place, he could not help but feel like trouble was looming somewhere.
