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?

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

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

Adam’s face onto the carpet. He glanced at

strode out

dumbstruck, and she was

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

said, “Mr. Alvarez, Ms. Tate

didn’t tum to look at him. “Did the antidote for Lux Garden

he reported that when he arrived, the room was

into a thin line. “Where did Celine

didn’t know that the men sent to her was there to

Alvarez,

been under the influence of

a man or a woman

hesitated. “I’m not

him off. “Forget it. I

H

Celine. They were going to