The Faceless Billionaire Celebrity Wife-Chapter 35: Cure For His Nightmares (1)

"She’s working on what?" He questioned. From his expression, one would know that he could not understand the report Raymond gave him.

"Is she a detective or an investigative reporter that she’s working on a murder case?" He continued. As a result of hating reporters, nothing interested him about them so his knowledge on their work and what it entailed, was limited. Who knew he would still have to worry about his wife?

"She is none, Sir. I think this is just the normal way Preston TV reporters, do their work," Raymond replied him.

The door was pushed open from outside, making Ethan and Raymond turn to look in it’s direction. Ethan’s doctor walked in, a curious twinkle in his eyes while his soiled clothes contrasted his neat face.

As he neared Ethan, the latter put his hands out, stopping him from taking any steps forward.

"What are you wearing?" He questioned, eyebrows raised at how his germophobic doctor was dressed in stained clothes.

"None of your business, Ethan," Doctor Kyle deadpanned. "I travelled after I left your place on Sunday, so I missed the message you sent on Monday."

"That’s true, I wanted to tell you that I had a nightmare free night, if there’s anything like that," Ethan informed.

Kyle’s eyes widened as he walked forward, disregarding the hand Ethan put forward to stop him.

"Are you serious?! According to the test I ran on you, it’s not supposed to be possible unless...you found the cure?!"

Slowly, Ethan shook his head while trying to remember if he took any kind of medicine on the day Shikera was sick. It was that night he slept without having any nightmares, and he was very sure he did not even eat that day, due to taking care of Shikera until late in the night.

"You did, Ethan! You just have to think well and remember what it was that happened last four years, and repeated itself that day," Kyle pressed, staring earnestly into Ethan’s eyes while waiting for him to remember. Who knew if he would be able to recommend this same cure to other patients of his who had chronic nightmare disorder? 𝘧𝓇ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝘣𝓃ℴ𝓋𝑒𝑙.𝑐𝘰𝑚

But he was bound to be disappointed as Ethan only shook his head, giving up on trying to recall a memory that didn’t exist in the first place.

"I don’t think there’s a kind of special treatment for it. I just need to brace myself up for whatever will come up in the future and then prepare to tackle it."

"Alright then," Kyle nodded, standing up straight. "Just call me when you remember anything. And keep it in mind that it’s very important that you cure this, Ethan, if you don’t want to disappoint those depending on you..." He walked towards the door before stopping dead in his tracks, turning back to face Ethan.

"Especially your wife," he concluded, walking out of the door.

"Uhm— Sir, I think there’s something you did which you haven’t done for the past four years," Raymond spoke up.

"What’s that?"

"You took care of a sick person by yourself. You only did that to Miss DeLoach four years ago and it was around that time that the nightmares stopped..." Ethan cut him off before he could complete his sentence.

"Which means that I won’t have nightmares if I continue taking care of sick people?" He asked, in a tone reflecting his disbelief.

"That’s just what I’m thinking,"

"Thinking? Do I look like a doctor?" he asked rhetorically. He continued, "Seems like you are tired of working here, do we change our working environment and start working in the hospital from now on, Advisor Raymond?"

"No Sir!"

"Then call Ruth and ask her how things are going on her side," he instructed.

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Ethan stood on the porch overlooking the field of flowers in front of the mansion, while waiting for Shikera to arrive. On previous days, she had always arrived home almost the same time he did, except the day she got drunk but today, she was not yet home even though he had arrived for almost three hours now.

"Still waiting for her?"

He heard a voice, and he turned to see his father approaching him.

"She has never been this late,"

"I know that. But she is a reporter and they can stay up for as many hours as possible, as long as they will get something worthy of reporting," Chris whispered. He had noticed his son staring at the door since he came back and even while they were having dinner, he kept casting glances at the door. Now that they were done, he came outside and was now staring at the distance.

"Why...Why did Chairman Anderson not stop her from following the same path her mother did?" Ethan asked. "If it was this stressful and required her staying up late, why did he let her continue even if he knew how harmful it would be to her health?"

"If you knew Mignon would die, wouldn’t you have supported her choice of career irrespective of how dangerous it would be for her? Two months are almost gone and you will have ten months left, just hang in until then," Chris encouraged, knowing his son was finding it hard to take care of someone whom he was supposed to hate.

"Also, you don’t have to stay up waiting for her. It was not in the contract," With that, the older man walked back into the house.

No sooner had Chris’s back disappeared into the house, did Ethan hear the sound of a car driving into the compound. The security guard would not allow anyone into the premises except the person was an immediate member of The DeLoach family so he knew the person who came in could only be Shikera.

He waited until he heard the car door slamming close, before he turned and entered the house.

For a week, this process of Ethan staying on the porch until Shikera came back, and then leaving before she could see him, continued. Even though he was extremely annoyed at the fact that she had to stay up late for a job as lousy as hers, he still waited for her at the porch every night.

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"Why don’t we have a drink at LK before leaving for home?" Erica suggested, as they wrapped up things in the conference room while preparing to leave for home.

That was their usual routine, going out during the day to search for clues; returning to Preston TV Station to report to their Team leader and assemble their clues, before going home afterwards.

Though the next day was a weekend, they were expected to come to work, albeit late as they had to report the news update on Baron Cohen’s killer, before his uncle was sentenced in the Court.

The week had been very hectic and exhausting for them in their department and that was the reason Erica thought Shikera and Cyprian would agree to going to LK Bar.

Cyprian threw a glance at Shikera who stayed silent as she was still working, before saying,

"We can’t, Miss Jordan. I have to get home early and Kera’s coming with me."

Just then, Shikera looked up as she closed her laptop. She stood up from her seat.

"I also don’t think that LK Bar is authorized to operate. To think that they don’t have CCTVs," she stated.

"You wanted to check their CCTV?" Cyprian asked, oblivious to why Shikera had even gone back there.

"Yes, I did. I had to check what kind of wine I bought at their counter that made me fall sick but they didn’t have one," she informed. "The bartender also couldn’t remember what I bought when it was just a few night ago. How unprofessional?!"

Shikera’s words elicited a flurry of reactions from Erica and Jaden as they shared knowing glances, their hands simultaneously sneaking into their pockets to remove their phones.

"Start now!" Erica typed, her hands dancing in quick succession along the screen of her phone. "Liam Anderson is out of the country!"