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?

removed her hand and stood up. Furious, Carly grabbed a pillow and threw it at his handsome face. “Adam, are you even a

to him, even going so far as to drug herself for his

face onto the carpet. He glanced at her without any expression. “Get some

that, he strode out of

was dumbstruck, and she

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

said, “Mr. Alvarez, Ms. Tate has taken

to look at him. “Did the antidote

that when he arrived, the room was empty. Mrs. Alvarez

slightly, frowning. His lips pressed into a thin line. “Where did

men sent to her was there to deliver the antidote

“Mr. Alvarez, someone picked her

She had been under the influence of such a

it a man or a woman who picked

hesitated. “I’m not

“Forget it. I don’t want to

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were