The Faceless Billionaire Celebrity Wife-Chapter 208: Pain.

"Wait!"

"What’s the problem now?" the woman snapped.

"Sorry...I just wanted you to direct me to the nearest hotel or inn," Shikera requested.

A loud laugh broke out, echoing as it was the dead of the night. 𝘧𝘳𝘦ℯ𝓌𝘦𝒷𝘯𝑜𝑣𝘦𝓁.𝒸𝘰𝓂

"You really are stupid. I told you we seldom have visitors and you still expect an inn or what? An hotel?!" she asked.

"Oh!" Shikera exclaimed, realization dawning on her.

"Oh," the woman replied. "I hope you let me go now. I have been out for the whole day and I need some good quality sleep."

Shikera nodded. "Thank you then. Goodnight," she whispered.

"Goodnight to you too," came the cold reply.

Shikera watched her go and waited until the woman’s back completely disappeared in the distance, before turning to look around her surroundings.

’First of, I have to find somewhere to sleep,’ she thought. She knew she could not go around knocking on people’s doors when it was almost midnight so that idea was crossed out of her list. The only thing left to do was to find a shed or something around here where she could at least lay her head. Sleeping would be another matter entirely.

She walked along the shore and found a few sheds, probably used by the fishermen to store their fishes and she tried a few of the doors to find it locked.

"Wait, are they scared of someone stealing their things in this small town?" She muttered. "Where would the thief run to?"

Laughing in spite of herself, she continued on her way to search for a space. After she was sure she had walked for about half an hour, she found herself walking back down the shore. She was not able to find a place.

Tears were already pooling at the depths of her eyes and she knew she only had a few minutes before she would completely break down. She had to find a place to cry peacefully and without any disturbance.

"Are you back?" That voice which she had grown to find familiar in just a few hours, resounded in her ears and she snapped her head up.

"Ma’am?!"

"What? Did you find it so hard to ask for help?"

"No... that’s not—" Shikera tried to deny it.

"Just zip your mouth and follow me. We should not wake the whole community up."

As she was ordered, Shikera zipped her mouth shut and hurriedly followed after the woman. They walked up the paved pathway that led away from the sea and immediately, Shikera could spot the rows of houses in the community. It looked like the houses were built in a way where one house faced another while leaving a large space in the middle.

All in all, Shikera felt like the environment looked like a table at dinner. There was a big house to serve as the chair at the head of the table, long rows of houses to serve as the chairs on either sides of the table, and lastly, the space in between to serve as the table itself.

Her heavy and tired breathing probably annoyed the woman as she turned to face Shikera, "Stop breathing like that! That’s my house at the end of the street so just endure till we get there. By the way, you do have quite the luggage for a sightseer."

"Ah...yes, I agree with you," Shikera whispered, her eyes on the target which was the ’chair at the head of the table’, the biggest house at the end of the street.

The rest of the short journey to the house couldn’t be more quiet that Shikera had a fleeting doubt of whether there were really humans living in those houses. Not even one of them had lights on.

"Here we are."

Shikera followed the woman into the house and the light bulb was switched on, enabling her to see the interior of the house. Well...it was just as she had imagined a beachside home.

She was too tired to check for more details so she just asked the woman,"Do I sleep here on the sofa?"

Sighing, the woman felt like she could hit Shikera on her head and not be at fault.

"You see a house this big and the only thing that comes to your mind is sleeping on the sofa? To me, you look more like an experienced runaway teenager than a sightseer." She continued, "This whole house had three bedrooms, a toilet, a bathroom, a kitchen, and a store. I use one of the bedrooms, my granddaughter uses another, so you can take the last one...for now."

"Really?! Show me where it is." Her eyes glistening with tears of happiness, she was just a second from hugging the woman, when the latter walked away.

She was lead to a room on the far end of the hallway, where the woman informed her that the room directly opposite the one she was about to use, was her grandaughter’s.

"The bed and the room is clean so you don’t need to bother about cleaning for tonight. I will go sleep now. Good night," the woman wished.

"Good night. Sweet dreams," Shikera wished back, her voice as low as possible.

The woman left her alone and Shikera pushed the door open to walk into the room. She didn’t bother switching on the light or looking around the room, not to talk of changing her clothes or bathing. But instead, she fell straight on the bed and allowed the tears to fall.

She cried for a long time, sobbing at most times and cleaning her tears at other times, until the clothes beneath her head was soaking wet with tears. All her cries were without making a single sound...her pain was for only hers to know.

As the events of the day replayed in her head, Shikera drifted off to sleep.

When she opened her eyes next, the first place her eyes went to in the bright room was the watch on her wrist.

"What the fuck?!"

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