"What truth?"
The question lingered in the air longer than it should have.
Richard did not answer immediately. He looked at Shadric first, and that tiny pause told me enough to know there was something here they had not wanted me to hear.
Then Richard's face came alive again.
"The truth about the redevelopment," he said.
I stared at him. "That is what you meant?"
"What else would I mean?"
Shadric's eyes moved to his father, but he said nothing.
Richard stepped fully into the hallway and adjusted the cuff of his sleeve, as if this were a boardroom and not my family home. "The redevelopment has obligations attached to it. Delays create consequences for everyone involved"
I looked past him to Shadric. "And you?"
His face gave nothing away. "He is telling you the business reason."
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