The Faceless Billionaire Celebrity Wife-Chapter 237: Her Mother Is Dead.

Shikera thought Grandma Cooper would ask more questions about Mignon, but the woman shocked her with her next words.

"Let’s not mention her family again. And yours too, alright? You will be completely separated from them."

"I don’t think that is possible. My family might not stop searching for me," Shikera disagreed, shaking her head.

# "They will, as long as you completely cut contacts with anyone related to them," Grandma Cooper reassured her, pausing for a while before asking, "About Leah, you really do not know anything more about her, right?"

"Yes, I don’t."

"It will be alright then," Grandma Cooper stated, taking Shikera’s hands into her own frail and bony ones.

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Cyprian’s hand was hanging in the air, as she wondered whether it was appropriate to be knocking in this particular place that she was. She was standing in front of her department’s conference room and on a normal day, she would burst in without any restraints since a meeting was going on in there.

But in this case, she was hesitating because someone was in there. Raymond.

The both of them had agreed to come see Team leader Zuresh together but here he was, alone. She expected it; only a fool would expect forgiveness after that had happened. The fact that she had tried to hide her sin from him was another reason why she did not expect him to ever forgive her.

"Will you keep standing there or will you come in?!"

Cyprian almost jumped out of her skin at that loud yell which broke into her thoughts. It was her team leader yelling at her from inside the room and now, all her teammates and Raymond were staring at her with questioning gazes in their eyes. She could tell her teammates were looking like that because they were wondering why she was hesitating to enter the conference room, but what about Raymond? Why was he looking at her like that; without hatred in his eyes?

Like someone under a trance, she stepped into the conference room and joined in on the ongoing meeting. All through the meeting, the only sentence she was sure she heard was ’let’s talk more about this on our next meeting’, which was the closing sentence given by Team leader Zuresh. Her mind was completely in disarray, not giving her the chance to even assimilate anything that was mentioned.

The sound of chairs screeching against the floor flooded her ears as she looked around to see her teammates getting up from their seats and walking out the door. Cyprian proceeded to do the same when Team leader Zuresh stopped her.

"Where are you going?"

Cyprian looked around the room to make sure she was the one that was being addressed, before replying, "To my desk."

"And leave me alone with this young man?" Team leader Zuresh asked, staring at Cyprian like she was the stupidest person she had ever seen.

Cyprian’s eyes darted to Raymond’s face as fast as she could, before staring back at her team leader.

"But...he came alone. We didn’t come together," she stated.

"And so? Stop behaving like one who got the opportunity of going on a work trip with her office crush and take your seat now," the older woman ordered.

Cyprian obeyed immediately and placed her books back on the table.

"Alright ma’am!" she exclaimed, out of habit.

"You can come sit next to her, Mister."

Cyprian’s eyes widened when Raymond obeyed Team leader Zuresh’s directive and came to sit right beside her. She wondered how he was able to breath while sitting so close with her because for her, she was already feeling out of breath.

"So, this Mister here introduced himself as a friend of both you and Shikera and said he needed to ask me some questions. I agreed since it concerned Shikera, so what’s it about?"

"Mrs Zuresh, our first set of questions are not related to Miss Anderson but we will get onto it later on. Mmm... first of all, I found out you are a shareholder of this media house, secretly. Not sure if I’m right but—" Raymond began, only to be interjected by Team leader Zuresh.

"You are right. Since your question will later come down to Shikera anyway, I will answer you truthfully. I manage those shares secretly."

Raymond nodded, moving on to the next question.

"You used it to support Shikera once before? Maybe when she wanted to move on from being a reporter to a show anchor," he asked.

"No, I never got the chance. If anything, I used that power to hold her back a bit. Her health won’t allow her explore as much as the company wants her to, so I use the shares to support her slow development. Any problem with that?"

Raymond shook his head slowly, surprise evident in his eyes.

"You know a lot about Miss—Shikera, I mean. How?"

"I am her godmother, and she is my goddaughter," Team leader Zuresh answered without hesitating. She saw the shock in Raymond and Cyprian’s eyes and added, "I also know she is Shikera Anderson, Liam Anderson’s and Natalia Anderson’s daughter, and Ethan DeLoach’s wife."

"What the fuck!" Cyprian could not help but yell.

Raymond was quick to compose himself as he replied,"You might be wrong though? Shikera is not Liam Anderson’s daughter, as far as I and Cyprian know. In fact, she left home because of that."

A frown formed on the team leader’s face, disbelief vividly expressed all over her face.

"What are you saying? Shikera is Liam Anderson’s one and only daughter. Natalia was my friend so I know what I’m saying," she insisted.

"Was? Did you guys fight and break up your friendship?" Raymond asked.

"Hold on, are you sure you two are talking about the same Shikera I am taking about?" Team leader Zuresh asked, confused. Were this two ignorant of the fact that Shikera’s mother was dead?

Cyprian was the one who replied this time around, "We are talking about Shikera, Team leader."

"Then shouldn’t you know that her mother is dead? Am I supposed to use ’is’ for a dead person?"