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 have even taken a

fell into a dreamless

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

he slept through the

Skylar turned over and woke up

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

her new marital status.

smiled awkwardly at Joe. “Good morning,” she

a second on Skylar’s pale

change.” Skylar

his watch and looked at

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

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

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

for no

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

at them and said, “Come have

Skylar was concerned with Gloria’s health.

was concerned that Skylar would worry about her

much.

knew herself well, and she knew how much

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

was a shrewd old lady!

at Joe.

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

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

pm last night? You slept past 7:00 am

sleep was more than you

for almost ten hours, but it

Joe was speechless.

even his biological grandmother?

Joe when she heard Gloria. Was

hadn’t paid much attention then, but now she felt slightly. alarmed

he fallen asleep easily when she’d given him a massage

points you showed him. Could you come back. and demonstrate it for him again tonight?” Gloria asked

Grandma,” Skylar

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

time.

the acupuncture points marked

saw how readily Skylar agreed. It made him believe that

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Gloria, she was also taking the opportunity to get close

Paul to investigate