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?

a pillow and threw it at his handsome

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

Adam’s face onto the carpet. He glanced at her without any

that, he strode out of

and

and stood by the floor–to–ceiling window, his

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

at him. “Did the antidote for Lux Garden get delivered?”

sent an assistant to deliver it, but he reported that when

lips pressed into a thin line.

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

continued, “Mr. Alvarez,

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

“Was it a man or a woman who picked

hesitated. “I’m not

him off. “Forget it. I don’t want to

H

They were going to get a divorce anyway. She could do whatever