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

into a

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he woke up, he thought it was still midnight. He was stunned for a moment when he saw a ray of

slept through the entire

turned over and woke

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

to her new marital status.

Joe. “Good morning,” she

on Skylar’s pale face. “Good

to change.” Skylar got out

too. He put on his watch and looked at the

out of the room around the same time.

had woken up early. She had heard from Edgar that Joe and Skylar were still sleeping. She had waited for them from 5:30 am to 7:30 am. The more she waited, the happier she felt.

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

for no

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.

stairs, she smiled broadly at them and said, “Come

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

Gloria was

much.

knew how much longer she could

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

a shrewd old lady!

stared at

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

too bad.” Joe intentionally ignored Gloria’s teasing gaze.

Didn’t you fall asleep before 10.00 pm last

than you had in a week,

for almost ten hours, but it was just “not

Joe was speechless.

she even his biological

she heard

before. She hadn’t paid much attention then,

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

Could you come back. and demonstrate

Skylar agreed

head. It was hard to

time.

acupuncture points marked clearly for

Skylar agreed. It made

scheming person. 1

was also taking the opportunity to get

ask Paul to investigate Christopher.