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.

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

slept through the entire night?

same time, Skylar turned over and

opened her eyes and saw Joe sitting in front of

to her new marital status.

Joe.

second on Skylar’s pale face. “Good

going to change.” Skylar got out of bed.

up too. He put on his watch and looked at

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

had woken up early. She had heard from Edgar that Joe and Skylar were still sleeping. She had

when he was young, but after

for no reason.

such a long time! This had only happened after he’d shared his bed with Skylar. In the past, he would only wake up at this

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

Grandma?” Skylar was concerned

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

much.

well, and she knew how much

could hold on until Joe and Skylar were really together. Did

a shrewd old lady!

stared at Joe.

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

bad.” Joe intentionally ignored

asleep before 10.00 pm last night? You slept past 7:00

you had in a week, right?”

slept for almost ten hours, but it

Joe was speechless.

his biological

Joe when she heard Gloria. Was his insomnia that

paid much attention then, but now she felt

he fallen asleep easily when she’d given him a massage the day before?

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

Grandma,” Skylar agreed happily.

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

time.

diagram with all the acupuncture points marked

how readily Skylar agreed. It made him believe

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please Gloria, she was also taking the

ask Paul