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.

was clearly overthinking! Her actions were totally unnecessary. Even if she had been naked before him, he wouldn’t have even taken a glance at

fell into a dreamless slumber.

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He was stunned for a

he slept through the

same time, Skylar turned

eyes and saw Joe sitting in front of her, she was

to her new marital status.

Joe. “Good morning,” she

for a second on Skylar’s

going to change.” Skylar got out

and looked at the time. It

walked out of the room around the same

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

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

no

long time! This had only happened after he’d shared his bed with Skylar. In the past,

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

Skylar was concerned with Gloria’s

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

much.

and she knew how much longer she could hold

and Skylar were really together. Did Joe think that

a shrewd old lady!

stared at Joe.

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

too bad.” Joe intentionally ignored Gloria’s teasing

bad? Didn’t you fall asleep before 10.00 pm last night? You slept

you

for almost ten hours, but it was just “not bad“?

Joe was speechless.

even his biological

at Joe when she heard

attention then, but now she

he fallen asleep easily when she’d given him a

Could you come back. and

Skylar agreed happily.

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

time.

diagram with all the acupuncture points marked clearly for him

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

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she trying to please Gloria, she was also

ask Paul to investigate