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 before him, he wouldn’t

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it was still midnight. He was stunned for a moment when he

through the

time, Skylar turned over and woke

sitting in front of her, she was a bit dazed. She was really

to her new marital status.

awkwardly at Joe. “Good morning,” she said.

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

Skylar got out

up too. He put on his watch and looked

they walked out of the room around the

She had heard from Edgar that Joe and Skylar were still sleeping. She had

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

for no

happened after he’d shared his bed with Skylar. In the past, he would only wake up at this hour if

two of them walking down the stairs, she smiled broadly at them and said, “Come have breakfast. I’ve prepared both Western and

better, Grandma?” Skylar was concerned with

worry about me.” Gloria was concerned that Skylar would

much.

knew herself well, and she knew how

really together. Did Joe think that she didn’t know they

a shrewd old

stared at Joe.

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

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

pm last night? You slept past

than you had in a week,

stand his cold face. He’d slept for almost ten hours, but it was

Joe was speechless.

even his biological

Joe when she heard

paid much attention then, but now she felt slightly. alarmed after

given him a massage the day before?

you showed him. Could you come back. and demonstrate

Skylar

acupuncture points on the head. It was hard to remember them

time.

acupuncture points marked clearly for

darkened when he saw how readily Skylar agreed. It made him believe

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

Paul to investigate