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.

going so far as to drug herself for

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

he strode out

and she

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

Alvarez, Ms. Tate has taken

to look at him. “Did the antidote for

that when he

into a thin

the men sent to her was there to deliver the antidote

continued, “Mr. Alvarez, someone picked

of such a strong drug Who could

man or a woman who picked her

“I’m

cut him off. “Forget it. I don’t want

H

or a woman? He didn’t care about Celine. They were going to get