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?

hand and stood up. Furious, Carly grabbed a pillow and threw it at his handsome

had practically served herself up to him, even going so far as

the carpet. He glanced

strode out

dumbstruck, and she was left

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

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

to look at him. “Did the antidote for Lux Garden get

it, but he reported that when he arrived,

frowning. His lips pressed into

her

continued, “Mr. Alvarez, someone picked her

the influence of such a strong drug Who could

it a man or a woman who picked her

“I’m

cut him off. “Forget it. I don’t want

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were going