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 glance

into a dreamless slumber.

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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

time, Skylar turned over and

eyes and saw Joe sitting in front of her,

new marital status.

Joe. “Good morning,” she said.

on

to change.” Skylar got

put on his watch and looked at the time.

washing up. Then, they walked out

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.

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

for no

had only happened after he’d shared his bed with Skylar. In the past, he would

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

Grandma?” Skylar

worry about me.” Gloria was concerned that Skylar

much.

knew how

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

was a shrewd

stared at Joe.

He looked less cold today since he was well rested. “You look like you’ve had a good night’s

Joe intentionally ignored Gloria’s

last night? You slept past 7:00 am this morning. Last

you had in a week,

for almost ten hours, but it was

Joe was speechless.

even his

Joe when she heard Gloria. Was

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

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

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

Skylar agreed happily.

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

time.

a diagram with all the acupuncture points marked

saw how readily Skylar agreed. It made him

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she trying to please Gloria, she was also taking the opportunity to

should ask Paul