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?

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

practically served herself up to him, even going so far as to drug herself for his excitement, and yet

carpet. He glanced at her without any expression. “Get some

strode out

and she was left

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

Alvarez, Ms. Tate has taken the

at him. “Did the antidote for Lux

but he reported that when he arrived, the room was empty. Mrs. Alvarez

pressed into

that the men sent to her was there to deliver the antidote

Alvarez,

the influence of

deepened. “Was it a man or a

“I’m

it. I don’t want

H

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