Everyone was watching, waiting to see what would happen.
They could sense a change in the beta's mood, but it was more of a worry than anger. They understood that he needed to see his brother, and none of them felt ready for what could happen if ever Angelo and Carl had their first public fight.
It was like an impossibility, but crossing it off the list was just too much hope anyway. Carl looked around, hoping to see his brother right behind Angelo considering the golden chain insured the slave and the master were at most five hundred meters apart.
Thinking of his elder brother as a slave would always fuck with Carl's mind, especially after all that had happened and all the horrors. He knew that his brother had been a slave for their mother for years, a reality that intensified Carl's hate for Zarinah.
