“I know. But they’ve been holding onto that dream for years. When someone comes along and offers to make it a reality, can you really blame them for hoping?”
really “But,” Adam countered, “hope doesn’t justify knocking down the Tower. Or demolishing Whitechapel and displacing everyone here.”
Victoria shook her head in passive agreement. “I’m not saying it does. I’m just saying it’s possible to put yourself in their shoes, if you’ll pardon the pun. Look at it from where they’re standing – ‘New Haven’ gets built; Rene and Ella think they’re odds on to buy their first real home. From their point of view—”
“From their point of view, they win. I know. It’s not them I blame. It’s people like Emma Lambert and Max Evans, selling false hope. And it’s Grainger I worry about,” he admitted.
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