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?

Carly grabbed a pillow and threw it at his handsome

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

fell from Adam’s face onto the carpet. He

he strode out

and she was left

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

Ms. Tate has taken the antidote

at him. “Did the antidote

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

His lips pressed into a thin line.

to her was there to deliver the

Alvarez, someone picked her

been under the influence of such a

frown deepened. “Was it a man

hesitated. “I’m

cut him off. “Forget it. I don’t want

H

it was a man or a woman? He didn’t care about Celine. They were going to get a divorce anyway. She could do whatever she wanted. Adans dismissed Leo. You may