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?

stood up. Furious, Carly grabbed a pillow and threw it at his handsome face. “Adam, are

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

carpet. He

strode

was dumbstruck, and she

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

Alvarez, Ms. Tate has taken the antidote

“Did the antidote for Lux Garden get

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

lips pressed into a thin

know that the men sent to her was there to

“Mr. Alvarez, someone

been under the influence of such a strong drug Who

“Was it a man or

“I’m not

“Forget it. I don’t want to

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They were going to