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.

totally unnecessary. Even if she had been naked before him, he wouldn’t have even

fell into a

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stunned for a moment when he saw a ray of sunlight seeping

through the

Skylar turned over

of her, she

her new marital status.

Joe. “Good morning,” she said.

a second on

going to change.” Skylar got out of

and looked at the time. It was

up. Then, they walked out of the room around the same time.

Joe and Skylar were still sleeping. She had waited for them from 5:30 am to 7:30 am.

when he was young, but

for no reason.

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

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

better, Grandma?” Skylar

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

much.

well, and she knew how much

hold on until Joe and Skylar were really together. Did Joe think that she didn’t know they weren’t

was a shrewd

stared at Joe.

he was well rested. “You look like you’ve had a good night’s sleep!”

it wasn’t too bad.” Joe

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

sleep was more than you had in a week,

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

Joe was speechless.

his biological grandmother?

Joe when she heard Gloria. Was his insomnia that bad?

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

easily when she’d given

points you showed him. Could you come back. and demonstrate

Grandma,” Skylar agreed

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

time.

draw a diagram with all the acupuncture points marked clearly for him tonight.

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

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Gloria, she was also taking the opportunity to get close to

he should ask Paul to investigate