Ego-driven

B CITY CAPITAL

---THE CHASE RESIDENCE

No matter what his mother Olivia tried to make him see, Larry just could not deal with the injustice any longer. With Larry prancing about, the air of the living room suddenly felt thicker.

"Can you not listen to me just this once?" Olivia said.

"Just this once?" — Larry stopped pacing and looked at her — "'Just this once' was what you said while I was having it hard accepting dad's decision to send off my brother in the first place.

"He got to live the same as those peasant relatives who aren't relatives at all! And now this? I can no longer stay with dad's oppression."

"So what is it you're saying then? Are you going to accept Kaiden's otherness? You will accept that your father is not at least seventy percent right in his ways? Are you going to accept that Kaiden is —"