The Faceless Billionaire Celebrity Wife-Chapter 93: Two Teams.

Ethan sighed heavily as he watched Shikera run out of the room, already changed into casual clothes. The door slammed after her and he picked up his phone, dialing a number.

"Who won?"

Raising his brow slightly at the reply he got, Ethan continued, "Send the video coverage to this number."

When he was done instructing the person, Ethan dropped the call and sighed again. Without looking down at his lower body, the tightness of his trousers already told him the state that he was in. And he would have to take a cold shower just like he had been doing for this past few days whenever he kissed or had any kind of intimate moment with Shikera.

’Why do you hesitate every time?’ Ethan asked himself, even though he knew the answer.

He always stopped every time because she didn’t love him yet, and he also didn’t know which part of him she liked the most. What would she do if his personalities switched while he was with her? What if she wanted him to be gentle and he wanted to be aggressive? What if she wanted...what if? What if? And what if?

He had asked himself so many what ifs this past few days and today, when he finally had the courage, her fucking team leader had to call. Who the hell was that woman anyway? Leaning his head on the back of the sofa, he waited for Kyle to come and see him before he would leave. Shikera had asked him to leave when he was done since she was sure they wouldn’t be coming back here.

"Just you wait, you won’t have this chance again," he vowed, looking directly at the wall in front of him as if he was talking to it.

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The elevator doors opened and Shikera walked out of it with a frown on her face, while the others followed her while carrying their cameras and laptops with them. The whole station was dark except for their department floor, making them wonder what the emergency was that demanded only the entertainment department reporters.

Team leader Zuresh who was seated on her chair, jumped to her feet when she heard the elevator ding. She met her subordinates halfway, smiling at the confused look on their faces.

"I’m so sorry for calling you back impromptu," she began. "But I had no other choice than to do this. So you all would be choosing one between two trips, traveling along with the president who was recently treated at Lucian Rays hospital and come back in a week."

Murmurs of confusion passed through the team members as they shared glances with each other, wondering why they suddenly needed to travel out of the country.

"What’s the second choice?" Shikera, being the only calm one in the group, asked. She knew traveling out of the country was out of the question because of her health so she wanted to know the second option.

Team leader Zuresh sighed,"I know most of you would jump for this instead. The second option is for you to go the military campground where they are holding the mock training session for the students at NewDun Elites High School."

"How is that any easier?!" Cyprian could not help but exclaim. They had to travel to the border of their country, and as if that was not enough, they would stay at the military campground. Did their team leader want to end their young lives earlier?

"Leigh!" The team leader warned, before adding,"You will have to be there for two weeks and you have absolutely nothing to worry about, apart from the fact that you won’t be able to use your shower or other luxuries for a while. Your daily necessities would be provided and you don’t need to worry one bit about your safety as this is only a mock training for students, high school students."

"But...why exactly are we going there? I can understand that we will be traveling with the president to get coverage but why the military campground?" Maja, one of the new members, asked.

"For the same reason, to get coverage. This is actually not an assignment that the management gave to us, but one that we received directly from the federal government so we have no choice but to comply. They probably want the daily training and activities to be aired nationwide." Team leader Zuresh replied patiently.

"Now that you all understand, we have to split ourselves into two groups. The president group and the military group," she continued. "If you would like to join the president group, fingers up."

Everyone of them apart from Shikera, raised up their hand. Even with their team leader’s reassurance, they were still fearful.

"You mean all of you apart from Anderson wants to follow the president? I guess I have to chose then," she announced.

Signaling them to put their hands down, she pointed at Shikera and Cyprian one after the other.

"Anderson will lead Team military while Leigh will lead Team president. Maja, Vicky, Henry, and Josh will be joining Anderson while the rest of you will join team president."

Grumbling beneath their breaths, the group divided into two with each person going to stand behind their assigned team leader.

"Stop that grumbling unless you are ready to submit your resignation letters. You will be leaving in two days so get yourselves ready and prepare!"

This time, even Shikera was not spared from the surprise as she exclaimed with the rest of them, "Two days?!"

"You heard that right. You have only two days and you are allowed to rest at home until then."

"But...why so soon?" Vicky asked, unable to withhold herself.

"Find your way to president and go ask him yourself. Team military will be meeting here by 8am in the morning as you will be taking the company bus, while Team president will be meeting at Lucian Rays as early as 6am. Any questions left?"

"No ma’am!" They chorused, shuffling their ways to their seats.

"And what are you doing?" Team leader Zuresh asked before they could rest their butts.

"Where is the coverage from the award ceremony?" She asked, looking from one face to another as they all stared confused at each other.

"But you asked us to come back asap," Cyprian mustered the courage to reply, while casting a sidelong glance at Shikera. Wasn’t she supposed to get something at least, after being inside for so long?

"I did, but that was after the winner had been announced. Don’t tell me you guys were not able to get anything even though you were all there..."

A phone’s ping interrupted her as she turned to Shikera, the owner of the culprit phone who was currently smiling at it.

"Anderson? The coverage?" She asked sternly.

"Just sent it to you, Ma’am." Shikera smiled, with her heart almost bursting from joy as she typed a thank you message to Ethan who had just saved her.

With a collective sigh of relief, the team members rested their heads on their desk only to hear their team leader’s scolding.

"You think I won’t go home? Now, get your asses up and get to your respective homes, unless you want to spend the night here."

With that, she swung the key to the large doors downstairs in the air and walked towards the elevator while smiling inwardly as she heard the scurry of footsteps following her.

When they got to the ground floor, Shikera and Cyprian walked out through the lobby to the former’s car which she parked outside.

"I’ll drop you home and then leave..." Shikera informed Cyprian.

"Leave for home at this time? Wouldn’t it be better for you to stay overnight at my place and then leave for the villa tomorrow?" Cyprian asked.

"We aren’t staying at the villa but at DeLoach’s mansion. I’ll just text Ethan that I won’t be coming home today but tomorrow instead." Shikera agreed with her, picking up her phone to text her husband.

At the sudden silence of her friend beside her, Shikera turned to look at Cyprian with a suspicious look in her eyes.

"What again?"

"Uhm," Cyprian averted her gaze. "If you could just ask Raymond to come pick you up tomorrow morning instead, wouldn’t that be alright?"

Shikera laughed out loud at her friend’s request.

"And here I was thinking my friend cares about me when she was only thinking of how to get her boyfriend to visit her."

"Ethan DeLoach and your father have showered you more than enough care for you to bother me about that," Cyprian protested, knowing by herself that her words weren’t making any sense.

Shikera laughed, getting into the passenger’s seat of the car and throwing the car key to Cyprian.

"It’s alright. Drive for today cause I have some research to make."

Fastening her seatbelt, she waited until Cyprian started the car and was on the highway before bringing out her phone to start her researches.

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What is wrong when a man abstains from...you know... but instead does other things to please the woman? She enjoys those ’other things’ but...there has to be something wrong if he doesn’t do the real thing, right?

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Reply from User2314: I feel your pain.

(Whispers) the man might be impotent.

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Shikera almost dropped her phone when she got the reply.