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.

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

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

he slept through

the same time, Skylar turned over and woke up

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

her new marital status.

Joe. “Good morning,” she said.

for a second on Skylar’s

going to change.” Skylar got out of

his watch and looked

out of the

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

He was healthy when he was

for 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 working overseas.

she saw the two of them walking down the stairs, she smiled broadly at them and said, “Come have

feeling better, Grandma?” Skylar

was concerned that Skylar would

much.

knew herself well, and she knew how much longer

together. Did Joe

a shrewd old

at

he was well rested. “You look like

it wasn’t too bad.” Joe intentionally ignored Gloria’s teasing

bad? Didn’t you fall asleep before 10.00 pm last night? You slept past 7:00 am this

more than you had in

slept for almost ten hours, but it

Joe was speechless.

his biological

looked at Joe when she heard Gloria. Was his insomnia

then, but now she felt slightly. alarmed after hearing it

fallen asleep easily when she’d given him

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

Grandma,” Skylar agreed happily.

of acupuncture points on the head. It was hard to

time.

diagram with all the acupuncture points marked clearly for

when he saw how readily Skylar agreed.

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Gloria, she was also taking the opportunity to get

ask Paul