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.

had been naked before him, he wouldn’t

into a dreamless

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

slept through the

the same time, Skylar turned

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

her new

Joe. “Good

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

Skylar got out of

and looked at the time. It was 7:15 am.

washing up. Then, they walked out of the

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,

he was young, but after he’d grown up, he suffered from

no

his bed with Skylar. In the past, he would only wake up at

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

Grandma?” Skylar was

was concerned that Skylar would worry about her

much.

and she knew how much

really together. Did Joe think that she

was a shrewd old

at Joe.

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

Joe intentionally ignored Gloria’s

last night? You slept

sleep was more than you had in a

couldn’t stand his cold face. He’d slept for almost ten hours, but it was just

Joe was speechless.

she even his biological

heard Gloria. Was his

paid much attention then, but now she felt

asleep easily when she’d given him

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

Grandma,” Skylar agreed

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

time.

a diagram with all the acupuncture

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

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

Paul to investigate