Thank you for reading through this chapter! I appreciate your honesty, and it brought attention to a balancing issue I couldn't quite pinpoint on my own.

There are certain themes and issues I want to explore in my work as a whole but I often don't know where to put it and it sometimes ends up in really awkward places, like what you mentioned above. I did want to set up something about Angelo's character surrounding this incident, but upon further inspection, this might not be the story for that. For clarification's sake, in the series involving these characters, this isn't supposed to be the introductory story, but I do like having all of my stories set up in a way where a newcomer can jump in and get caught up with all the pertinent information, so that's also something I need to work on. 

I'll see what I can do to revise this chapter and a few of the later chapters that have similar issues. Feel free to continue reading on, but even if you don't, thank you so much for reading through this and offering input! It really put some much-needed things into perspective for me.