Richest Mogul

Chapter 15

He was stunned for a few minutes. That was fast.

He replied suspiciously, “Are you there, Ms. Sullivan?”

There was no reply.

Paul stared at his phone for another ten minutes.

There were no further replies from Skylar. Paul breathed a sigh of relief. He must have been overthinking

just now.

Skylar didn’t know that Paul was overanalyzing her replies. After her shower, she was already feeling

sleepy.

She asked Joe whether he’d prefer the left or right side of the bed. Then, she laid down immediately.

Before she slept, she saw Paul’s message when she was switching her phone to silent mode. She had

checked it and set it aside.

Joe brought his clothes into the bathroom. When he was closing the door, he saw that Skylar was already

asleep.

He was slightly surprised.

Was she pretending to be asleep?

She looked pretty convincing. Her acting skills were so good, one would think she was a trained actor.

After half an hour, he walked out of the bathroom, fully dressed. He saw that Skylar still had the same

sleeping posture.

He couldn’t help but think that she was quite persistent.

He wasn’t used to sleeping beside a woman. After he lay down on the bed, he realized that Skylar wasn’t moving at all.

When he heard her even breathing, his face fell. He couldn’t believe she was really sleeping!

When he turned to turn off the lights, he realized that there were two pillows in the middle of the bed. It divided the bed into two, making the boundaries extremely clear. He raised his eyebrows coldly.

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Was she… guarding herself against him?

Joe pursed his thin lips.

been naked before him, he wouldn’t have even taken a glance

into a dreamless slumber.

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up, he thought it was still midnight. He was stunned for a moment when

he slept through the entire

Skylar turned over and woke

and saw Joe sitting in front of her, she was a bit dazed.

new

awkwardly at Joe.

on

change.” Skylar

He put on his watch and looked at

turns washing up. Then, they walked out of the room around

had woken up early. She had heard from Edgar that Joe and Skylar were still sleeping. She had waited for them

healthy when he was young, but after he’d grown up, he

no reason.

was rare to see him sleep for such a long time! This had only happened after he’d shared his bed with Skylar. In the past, he would only wake up at this hour if he had jet lag from

she smiled broadly at them and said,

feeling better, Grandma?” Skylar was concerned with

better. Don’t worry about me.” Gloria was concerned that Skylar would worry about

much.

herself well, and she knew how much longer she

until Joe and Skylar were really together. Did Joe think that she didn’t

a shrewd old lady!

stared at

well rested. “You look like you’ve had a good night’s

bad.” Joe intentionally ignored

fall asleep before 10.00 pm last night? You slept past 7:00 am this morning. Last

than you had

his cold face. He’d slept for almost ten hours, but it

Joe was speechless.

she even his

at Joe when she heard Gloria. Was his insomnia

attention then,

fallen asleep easily when she’d given him a massage the

showed him. Could you come back. and demonstrate it for him

Grandma,” Skylar agreed

were indeed a lot of acupuncture points on the head. It was hard to remember them

time.

with all the acupuncture points marked clearly for

saw how readily Skylar agreed. It made him believe that

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was she trying to please Gloria, she was also taking the opportunity to get close to him.

ask Paul to investigate Christopher.