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.

overthinking! Her actions were totally unnecessary. Even if she had been naked before him, he wouldn’t have even taken a glance

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midnight. He was stunned for a moment when

slept through the

time, Skylar turned over and

saw Joe sitting in front of her, she was a bit dazed. She was really not

to her new marital status.

Joe.

paused for a second on Skylar’s pale face.

change.” Skylar

He put on his watch and looked at

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

sleeping. She had waited for them from 5:30 am to

he was young, but after he’d grown up, he suffered from

for no

bed with Skylar. In the past, he would only wake up at this hour if he had jet

saw the two of them walking down the stairs, she smiled broadly at them and

feeling better, Grandma?” Skylar

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

much.

she knew how much longer she could hold

could hold on until Joe and Skylar were really together. Did Joe think that she didn’t know

was a shrewd old

stared at

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

bad.” Joe intentionally ignored Gloria’s

fall asleep before 10.00 pm last night? You

was more than you had in

his cold face. He’d slept for almost

Joe was speechless.

she even his biological grandmother?

looked at Joe when she heard Gloria. Was his insomnia that

She hadn’t paid much attention then, but now she felt slightly. alarmed after

she’d given him a massage

said he couldn’t remember the acupuncture points you showed him. Could you come back. and demonstrate it for him again

Skylar agreed happily.

lot of acupuncture points on the head. It was hard to remember

time.

draw a diagram with all the acupuncture

he saw how readily Skylar agreed. It made him believe that she

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Gloria, she was also taking the opportunity to

he should ask Paul to