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.

clearly overthinking! Her actions were totally unnecessary. Even if she had been naked

into a dreamless slumber.

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was still midnight. He was stunned for a moment when he saw a ray of sunlight

he slept through the

same time, Skylar turned

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

new

awkwardly at Joe. “Good morning,” she

a second on Skylar’s pale face. “Good morning.”

to change.” Skylar got out of

his watch and looked at the time. It was

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

sleeping. She had waited for them from

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

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 from working overseas.

stairs, she smiled broadly at them and said, “Come have breakfast. I’ve

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

worry about me.” Gloria was concerned that

much.

herself well, and she knew how much longer she could hold

together. Did Joe think that she didn’t know they weren’t an actual couple?

was a shrewd

stared at Joe.

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

bad.” Joe intentionally ignored Gloria’s teasing

asleep before 10.00 pm last night? You slept past 7:00 am

you had in a week,

slept for almost ten hours, but

Joe was speechless.

his

when she heard Gloria. Was

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

he fallen asleep easily when she’d given him a massage the day before?

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

Skylar agreed happily.

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

time.

a diagram with all the acupuncture points

when he saw how readily Skylar agreed. It

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

ask Paul