In a Love Nest with the Aloof CEO
Chapter 22

When Skylar walked into the house, she saw Tobias sitting at the longtable. The air was thick with silence in the living room, and only thesound of newspapers flipping could be heard.

Unwilling to greet Tobias, Skylar planned to go straight upstairs.

“Stop right there. Where did you go so early in the morning?” Theman’s deep voice was heard coming from behind.

Skylar turned around. “I went to have some croissants as I was hungry.”“You didn't buy me some when you went out to have breakfast on yourown? How stingy.” Tobias put down the newspaper and glared at her.Speechless, Skylar said grumpily, “I didn't know you eat store-boughtcroissants. I thought the rich always eat like, I don't know, sourdoughbread?”

It just so happened that Laura came out of the kitchen with fresh pipinghot breakfast on the tray — sundried tomatoes, sauteed spinach, turkeybacon, scrambled eggs, and yes, sourdough bread.

Skylar raised her eyebrows. “I'm afraid that you're not used to eatingsomething as simple as croissants. Anyway, I'm going back to sleep.Talk to you later.”

“Why did you let her go out to get breakfast? What's the point of mehiring you?” Tobias chided Laura as soon as she came out.

Laura hurriedly explained, “I didn't see Ms. Jones when I woke up thismorning. I'm sorry, Mr. Ford.”

Skylar then chimed in, “I woke up too early, so I went out to eat. Isn'tthis very normal? Why the fuss?”

She didn't understand why Tobias wanted to reproach Laura.

However, Tobias ignored Skylar's explanation and shot a glance atLaura. “I don't hire you to sleep in here, understand?”

Skylar stared at the man with her mouth agape. Crap. What I said justnow seems to be adding fuel to the fire.

Looking helpless, Laura nodded her head repeatedly and promised thatshe would be more mindful of it in the future.

Skylar saw for herself how exploitative a capitalist was from Tobias’behavior, which lacked compassion as a human.

Thinking that he was just being absurd, she couldn't take it anymoreand said angrily, “Do you mean that Laura needs to wake up at threeo'clock in the morning if I wake up at four?”

“Why not? Is there any problem?” Tobias asked.

“N-No problem, Mr. Ford. I will get up two hours earlier every day,”answered Laura hurriedly.

She then shot a look at Skylar, signaling for her to stop talking.

With that, Skylar had no choice but to keep her mouth shut and turn togo upstairs.

When she returned to the room, she realized that the bedsheet thatwas soiled by her last night had been replaced with a new one.

The quilt on the bed was also neatly laid out without a trace of wrinklesas if no one had ever slept on it.

The bed was neat, but Skylar did not care and directly lay down on thebed in a comfortable position.

Right then, the bedroom door was pushed open from outside, andTobias appeared before her eyes.

Even so, she did not bother to get up but continued lying on the bedwith the same posture.

“This is me. I sleep after I'm full. Oh, and I have to tell you the truth —I'm lazy, gluttonous, and sloppy.”

Being astute as he was, Tobias could see that Skylar did so on purposein order to make him despise her.

He chuckled and replied, “I don't need you to do anything anyway. Justbe more expressive in bed. I don't want you to be like a dead fish whileI'm sleeping with you.”

Just before 10 a.m., he threw a folder on the bed and left.

After he left, Skylar went to take it and open it.

There was an admission letter from her previous university inside.Southwood Film Academy was one of the three famous institutions forfilm and television production in the country. Jeremy used to be asophomore here.

Because of Jeremy, Skylar got herself into Southwood Film Academy aswell.

After graduating from high school, she spent the entire holiday doingodd jobs to earn her tuition fees.

Having finally saved enough tuition fees, she started to dream of ahappy future with Jeremy, where they could be together every day, aswell as go to classes, the cafeteria, and the library together.

When the first semester at the university was about to start, Jeremycalled to meet her up at the coffee house next to their high school.While bawling his eyes out, he said that he had fallen ill and would takea break from studies for a while. He also did not know whether hecould still continue his studies in the future.

His family could not afford his medical treatment, so he could only waiton his deathbed. He also told her to take good care of herself as hisdays were numbered.

After being together for seven years, Skylar could not bear to watchhim pass at such a young age, so she gave him all her tuition fees atthat time.

She didn't know where she found the courage to help him raise moneyfor his surgery despite being so poor herself at the time.