Alan threw his arms in the air. "Oh! So now I'm good enough for her? Is that it? What am I, some kind of game? Some kind of chess piece you can move about at will?"
Grace was getting angry. "Listen, you fool! I'm offering you everything you were after in the first place! My daughter, without any interference from me!"
"But I have to give you up?"
She nodded firmly. "Absolutely."
"I can't," he said. "I just can't turn myself on and off like a faucet. I really enjoyed being with you! I can't give that up!"
"It's over between us," she stated.
"Then the hell with you both. Fire me if you want but I'm not going to have a thing to do with you or Teresa," Alan said as he moved for the door.
"No, wait! Pleases, Alan, please don't do that. I need you to keep Teresa happy, to keep her away fr
