"Then leave." The words rolled smoothly out of Michael's mouth, not a bit of doubt tainting his conclusive statement. The woman was insane -too much to his benefit. He'd never foreseen the ultimatum ever being an eventuality, but things, couldn't have worked out any better.
"What?" Stephanie's mint green eyes blinked repeatedly in perplexity, her mind having registered the words yet her ears appearing to be deceitful.
Michael spared the woman no emotion as he turned to face her, it was amusing how she'd transitioned from a rampaging,ranting maniac to a little wimp on the verge of groveling, in a matter of seconds. "How dare you make me choose between you and my daughter? Who do you think you are?"
Stephanie's mind became obsolete for a few seconds before the implications of h
