"Most Masters will be doing it for the money and most Masters don't really care if their slave lives or dies as long as they make money," Leo commented, before he took a breath and straightened himself out and looked Carrick in the eye. It felt wrong to do, to move without permission, but Leo needed to remember that he was no longer a slave but a Master. He was Carrick's equal.
"What stops them from betting against their own slave knowing how hurt they are?"