The Divorce Prescription

Chapter 15

Adam’s mind flashed back to Celine’s delicate lace. He had just kissed her earlier. Her lips were soft and carried a subtle fragrance that lingered.

As Carly leaned in to kiss him, Adam tamed his head to avoid her.

Carly missed his lips and pouted. “Why’d you dodge?”

Adam couldn’t explain himself. Carly was someone he liked, and it was perfectly normal for a man and woman who liked each other to kiss.

Meanwhile, he didn’t like Celine.

Yet the memory of dissing Celine lingered. That tingling sensation still coursed through him. As a man with a cleanliness obsession, he couldn’t bring himself to seamlessly transition from one woman to another.

It made him feel physically uncomfortable unclean, even

At that monent, a knock came at the door. Leo’s voice sounded from outside, “Mr. Alvarez, the antidote is here.”

Antidote

Carly roze. She had drugged herself with an aphrodisiac, and he had someone gotten an antidote?

pillow and threw it at

as to drug herself

Adam’s face onto the carpet. He glanced at her without any

that, he strode out of the

was dumbstruck, and she was left

went to the study and stood by the floor–to–ceiling window, his tall figurecasting a

Ms. Tate has

didn’t tum to look at him. “Did the antidote for Lux Garden

assistant to deliver it, but he reported that when he arrived, the room

pressed into a

know that the men sent to her was there to deliver the antidote on Adam’s

Alvarez, someone

She had been under the influence of such a

deepened. “Was it a man or a woman who picked

“I’m

it. I

H

it matter if it was a man or a woman? He didn’t care about Celine. They were going to get a