Seraphine turned to her father and asked what Miles meant by “expensive.” Miles answered before Bennett could. For the past eighteen months, Bennett’s development company had been preparing a large mixed-use project, and the construction firm selected for the most difficult phase was Dunmore Construction. Bennett had dealt only with project managers and assumed “Dunmore” was some distant corporate name. He had never bothered learning that I had started the company years earlier with two coworkers and eventually grown it into a successful regional contractor.
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