rm and puommy squarely on his right nipple, punishing the boy' s pey grunted but said nothing, returning a steely stare into Gus' s eyes. Gus returhe stare and slipped a quick uppercut into Tommy' s gut, just below his ribcage. "Oooofff!" The air exploded from Tommy' s lungs and he nearly doubled over, but Ben straightened him up.
Ted swung a roundhouse right, eg with Tommy' s ribs. Seeing the red blemish on Tommy' s right pec, Gus aimed his punch at Tommy' s left nipple, eg with a solid thud. Tommy grimaced for a sed and then looked back up, tinuing to stare at his oppos, refusing to back down.
"You' re a cocky little fucker, aren' t you?" asked Ted. "Don' t worry, we' ve broken lots bigger boys than you." Ted let fly a viciht cross squarely into Tommy' s guts. The boy doubled over and groaned in pain, but quickly recovered and tio taunt his attackers by looking them dead in the eye. Gus flew i the boy' s hubris and threpercut that ected ly with the boy' s . Tommy' s neapped back with the impad he slumped in Ben' s arms. The punch had knocked him out.
Ben dropped the boy to the floor of the trailer. "Looks like the kid wins," he said, laughing at Gus' impotent rage. "He was gon 15 a off with only 6 hits. I ain' t gon you hit the kid when he' s out."
"That' s all right," Gus said steamily, "we still have big brother to play with a while." Gus went over to Scott, who had been impotently watg his brother' s torture from the floor of the trailer, uo summth to get up and stop it. Gus grabbed a bottle of water from a small box of supplies on the floor and sprayed Scott' s face. As the boy slowly came to, Gus put his arms under Scott' s armpits and dragged him into a standing position, then walked him over to the wall covered by the mesh. Using some strips of rawhide he had ready in his pockets, Gus spreadeagled Scott and bound his wrists to the mesh, then secured his ahe shirtless, sweating, bruised teen was now spread out and helpless, his