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.

she had been naked before him, he wouldn’t have even taken a

into a dreamless slumber.

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stunned for a moment when he saw a ray of sunlight seeping through the curtains,

through the entire

time, Skylar turned

she opened her eyes and saw Joe sitting in front of

to her new marital

Joe. “Good morning,” she said.

second on

to change.” Skylar got out of

on his watch and looked at the time. It

up. Then, they walked out

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

knew Joe very well. He was healthy when he was young, but after he’d grown

no

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

them walking down the stairs, she smiled broadly at them and said, “Come have

Skylar was concerned with

me.” Gloria was concerned

much.

knew herself well, and she knew how much longer she could hold herself

together. Did Joe think that she didn’t know they weren’t an actual couple?

shrewd old

at

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

too bad.” Joe intentionally

last night? You slept past 7:00 am this

you

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

Joe was speechless.

his

looked at Joe when she heard Gloria. Was

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

given him a

the acupuncture points you showed him. Could you come back. and demonstrate it for

Grandma,” Skylar

points on the head. It was hard to

time.

with all the acupuncture

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

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

Paul to investigate Christopher.