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.

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

into a dreamless slumber.

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he thought it was still midnight. He was stunned for a moment when he saw a ray of sunlight seeping through the curtains,

slept through the entire

turned over

front of her, she

new marital status.

Joe. “Good morning,” she

on Skylar’s pale face.

change.” Skylar got out of

up too. He put on his watch and looked at the

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

Edgar that Joe and Skylar were still sleeping. She had waited for them from 5:30 am to

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

no reason.

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

them walking down the stairs, she smiled broadly at them and

you feeling better, Grandma?” Skylar was concerned with Gloria’s

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

much.

well, and she knew how much

really together.

shrewd old

stared at

he was well rested. “You look like you’ve had

Joe intentionally ignored Gloria’s teasing

10.00 pm last night? You slept past 7:00

more than you had in

almost

Joe was speechless.

she even his biological

Joe when she heard

heard Gloria talk about it before. She hadn’t paid much attention then, but now she felt slightly. alarmed after hearing it in person.

she’d given him

remember the acupuncture points you showed him. Could you come back. and demonstrate it for him again

Grandma,” Skylar agreed

points on the head. It was hard to remember them after just

time.

a diagram with all the acupuncture points

agreed. It made him believe that she was

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

ask Paul to investigate Christopher.