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?

removed her hand and stood up. Furious, Carly grabbed a pillow and threw it at his handsome face. “Adam, are

so far as to drug herself for his excitement, and yet he refused to touch

Adam’s face onto the carpet. He glanced at her

he strode out of

and she

to the study and stood by the floor–to–ceiling window, his

entered and said, “Mr. Alvarez, Ms. Tate has taken the antidote

“Did

replied, “I sent an assistant to deliver it, but he reported that when he arrived, the room was

His lips pressed into a thin

the men sent to her was there

continued, “Mr. Alvarez, someone picked her

the influence of such a strong drug Who

man or a woman who picked

“I’m

it. I don’t want

H

was a man or a woman? He didn’t care about Celine. They were going to get a divorce anyway. She could do whatever she wanted. Adans dismissed Leo. You