Then there was Leo, Julian’s nineteen-year-old son, who occupied the space between them like a ghost. He was a musician, or trying to be, which in Elias’s eyes was equivalent to being a professional daydreamer.
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"Let him go, Dad," Julian said. It was the first time he’d disagreed with Elias in front of the whole family in twenty years.
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"However," Henderson continued, his voice cracking, "this inheritance is contingent upon a single condition."