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,

going 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 without any expression.

that, he strode out of the

and she was left

study and stood by the floor–to–ceiling

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

to look at him. “Did the antidote

an assistant to deliver it, but he reported that when he arrived, the room was empty. Mrs.

frowning. His lips pressed into

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

continued, “Mr. Alvarez, someone picked her

She had been under the influence of such a strong drug Who could have

“Was it a man or a woman who picked her

“I’m not

it. I

H

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