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?

grabbed a pillow and threw it

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

onto the carpet. He glanced at

he strode out

was dumbstruck, and she was left

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

and said, “Mr. Alvarez, Ms. Tate

him. “Did the antidote for Lux Garden get

assistant to deliver it, but he reported that when he arrived, the room

pressed into

didn’t know that the men sent to her

“Mr. Alvarez,

been under the influence of such a

deepened. “Was it a man

hesitated. “I’m

“Forget it. I

H

did it matter if it was a man or a woman? He didn’t care about Celine. They were going to