This story is a historical fantasy for adults; despite its plentiful depiction of rape and torture the author in no way condones non-consensual sexual activity. Any resemblance to actual persons or events is entirely coincidental. Despite the insulting language used by some of the characters, no disrespect toward persons of any gender, ethnicity or religion is intended or should be inferred. Copyright 2003, Pursuant to the Berne Convention All Rights Reserved
The Lash of the Desperados Chapter I The Dancing Girl The shifty-eyed American sipped at his drink nervously as he stole another glance at the dark beauty who moved gracefully among the tables in the cantina. He'd been in Mexico for some weeks, riding slowly westward just south of the border, trying to put some distance between himself and west Texas, where he was in a little trouble with the law. The cantina was in Piedras Negras, a dusty little crossroads southeast of Nogales, the border town of the Arizona Territory. An old abandoned mission across the street was the only other building in sight. Piedras Negras had definitely seen better days. But, the stranger thought, the whole of the Arizona Territory had few women who could compare with the seductive dark-haired creature who served drinks at this cantina. He was in luck this late October night, the stranger mused, as he adjusted his trail-worn cowboy hat. He'd been winning steadily at poker all evening, the tequila was strong and smooth, and Teresa Maria Elena Martinez was the nicest looking scenery he'd seen in Mexico by a long shot. The American's furtive eyes darted continuously around the room taking in the dozen or so Mexicans in the cafe, most of them in twos and threes at small tables. A couple of loners were nursing their drinks at the bar. One old fellow in a huge sombrero plucked idly at a guitar as he sat in an old but well-cushioned armchair in one corner of the room. The customers were all male, and while the pungent smells of frijoles and chili and carne asada that came wafting from the kitchen were inviting, and the local tequila wasn't too bad, it was young Teresa Martinez that drew the local farmers and miners to this little joint. The diminutive American looked at his cards, found a pair of tens and told the dealer "Tres" as he discarded the three worthless cards. Teresa was carrying a trayful of drinks to the next table. She was one of the most striking women the American had ever seen -- the product of her complex ancestry. She had the deep brown eyes of an Aztec princess -- so dark they were nearly black; her long eyelashes, slender waist and full breasts bespoke a young Castilian noblewoman; her masses of lustrous black hair piled high on her head and her prominent cheekbones hinted at her Yaqui grandfather. And her ripe lips, nicely curved backside, and a certain panther-like grace as she moved across the room suggested an African ancestor a few generations back. She was a goddess in the middle of nowhere. And she knew it, thought the American. "Are you in, or ain't you?" the Texan asked the opponent on his left, a brooding rancher who was down plenty of pesos. The rancher, understanding not a word, but offended by the rudeness in the American's voice scowled back, and threw some coins into the pot. Teresa wore two or three strands of shiny silver chain around her neck that magnetically drew every male eye to where they nestled in the dark valley between her shapely breasts. When she bent forward to set the tray on the table, the three customers there got a good look at her delicious breasts, half-revealed by the low-cut white peasant blouse she wore. Teresa held that position, her gold earrings flashing, letting each of the men stare deeply into the inviting cleft between her mouth-watering melons, as she took her time distributing the drinks to the three men at the table. A night of drinking at Teresa's cost a few pesos more than at any other cantina in northern Sonora, but there weren't too many men between fifteen and eighty who weren't willing to pay the difference gladly, when they could afford it. Teresa hated this backwater town, and these backwater customers; she well knew that her beauty and her dancing, were her only ticket out of Sonora. She had heard of far-off San Francisco, a city that gold and railroads had made an El Dorado. She was determined to get there one day, confident that her youth and her feminine charms could beguile some rich banker or railroader, who would lavish gifts upon her in return for the occasional use of her delectable body. Teresa snapped out of her reverie as she felt a male hand, callused by manual labor, slide under her skirt. She forced herself to smile, as she brushed the rough hand away, "Senor Montoya", she spoke to the oldest of the three, "Your son takes after you." The man whom she addressed, a heavy-set man in his late forties with a bristling mustache, laughed and winked at his son. Montoya paid for the round of drinks, tipped her well, and then said in Spanish, "Teresa, you haven't danced for us tonight. Hector!" he called to the guitarist, "El Viejo! Play something nice for Teresa." Teresa gave him a pretty pout, still leaning over him. "Pero, Senor Montoya, it is late and Teresa is tired." She wiggled her upper body back and forth teasingly, and playfully stuck her tongue out at him. Letting every man at the table guess at how that moist pink tongue, those full lips might taste, might feel. The American looked at an ancient clock that stood against the wall facing the doorway that led from the kitchen. It was past 11:00; the evening had gone by quickly. Montoya picked up a bill from the table. "Teresa, " he began as he slowly tucked the bill between the two tasty-looking mounds of copper-colored flesh in front of him, "you are not yet eighteen, mi bonita. How tired can you be?" Montoya pressed the bill further down between her splendid breasts than was necessary, and he let his big hand linger for a moment, enjoying the pressure of her warm breasts against his fingers. Montoya never failed to take such liberties; but he was the wealthiest rancher around, and every tip brought her a little closer to San Francisco. Montoya repeated his request -- "Dance for us, mija." Montoya used the affectionate endearment 'mija', but there was nothing fatherly about the way his dark eyes lingered on the generous curves of Teresa's voluptuous young body. "Dance for us, querida. Por favor. It's been three weeks since I have seen you dance." "Bien," said the raven-haired temptress coyly, "if you insist. Hector!" El Viejo, the old one, roused himself at this, sat forward in the armchair, and began to play, strumming the opening chords of a ballad, as Teresa kicked off her sandals and began to dance. The American sat up alertly, licking his dry lips -- he had a feeling that Teresa was going to put on quite a show. For once his eyes ceased their incessant darting around the room; within moments his eyes, which seemed never to blink, were riveted to the body of the Mexican beauty, wondering how such a marvel of feminine architecture was to be found in this hick town a few days' ride west of El Paso. Teresa was still standing near Montoya's table, swaying gracefully to the music. Her eyes were closed, and her feet were stationary, but her hips, clad in a low-slung black skirt, had begun to undulate to Hector's slow, pulsing rhythm. Her short off-the-shoulder peasant blouse displayed her lovely rounded shoulders, and also a few inches of cafe-au-lait midriff. Unlike so many Mexican women, Teresa was very slim-waisted; she had the flat, well-toned belly of a dancer. She undulated sinuously, sensuously, her hips swaying to the beat. Teresa lifted her arms above her, removed a few pins, and let a glorious cascade of jet black hair fall down across the tawny skin of her bare shoulders. All of the men in the place had turned to watch, now. The card game was put on hold as those with their backs to Teresa shifted their chairs to face in the other direction. Even the sleepy-looking drunk at the corner of the bar sat up to watch. Teresa backed away from the men at the tables until she stood in the doorway that led to the kitchen. Facing them, she reached up to touch either side of the doorway, as she stretched languorously, her hips and belly moving in time with the sensual melody emanating from old Hector's guitar. Then she turned her back to the dining room, reached down for the hem of her skirt and slowly, teasingly, lifted it, inch by lovely inch, to reveal her beautiful legs. The black skirt rose until the men could see the thin wisp of whiteness beneath that covered, but could not conceal, the ripe curves of her bottom. The Latin temptress could sense the eyes of her audience burning into her flesh. She made a quarter turn, so that her back was against one side of the archway, and then slowly descended into a crouch, her buttocks describing a series of arcs against the wall as she slid, first to her haunches and then to her knees. Her body never stopped undulating as she knelt, knees apart, and lazily reached once again for the dark skirt, and lifted it, baring plenty of tantalizing thigh-flesh. The room felt ten degrees warmer than it had less than a minute ago; the American's cock stiffened in his dingy trousers. He glanced at Montoya at the adjoining table -- the big Mexican's fat fingers were opening and closing slowly, as he watched Teresa's performance. The tall, raven-haired, ebony-eyed beauty began to glide around the room now with a feline grace; she could feel the lustful eyes of the men upon her as she danced. And she welcomed the stares. They were proof, not that she needed any, of her splendid beauty. Proof too, of her power over them. The dancing girl smiled sensually at her admirers. She ran her graceful fingers up and down her ripe thighs through the thin fabric of the skirt, as she floated from one man to the other. She recognized most of the men as locals but there was one man, a scrawny little gringo with a crooked grin, that she did not recognize. But there were stacks of bills and gold and silver coins in front of the stranger -- and that was all the introduction Teresa needed. Undulating sensuously, she moved in front of him, smiling, her tongue moistening her full lips, her hands stroking her bare arms, her flanks, and then coming together in a V at her golden belly, and slowly inching downward, lingering for just a moment at the juncture of her legs. The American could feel his prick pressing even harder against his grimy pants. Teresa seemed to be dancing only for him, he thought, as she pirouetted before him, as the music quickened, her dark skirt swirling high around her long, luscious legs. Flashes of her white silk undergarment contrasted nicely with the creamy dark caramel of her thigh-flesh. Teresa studied the gringo as he held up an American bill; a big spender, she thought. Like most norteamericanos he talked too much; his card-playing opponents had been visibly irritated at the way he jabbered unceasingly. Unlike his foes, Teresa understood, and spoke, some English. But she didn't like Americans -- an American cannon had blown Hector's leg off at Vera Cruz in the Mexican War. And in her own childhood in Texas she had experienced the cruelty of the Anglo children to one who was darker than they, who spoke a different language. This American was homelier than most -- short, slight, ferret-faced, with strands of long, greasy brown hair protruding from under his cowboy hat. "El Raton" Teresa thought. The stranger had the sneaky look of a rat. He sported a nasty scar on one temple that seemed to be of rather recent vintage. But Teresa was sensible enough to realize that she didn't have to like a man, or his looks, to take his money. All men weren't good-looking. The gringo had a large pile of bills and coins, poker-winnings, in front of him. He had money, and that looked plenty good to her. She decided to give him something special, something to encourage him to part company with some of his winnings. As she swayed in front of him, she gestured for him to back his chair away from the table, so that she could stand in between him and the table, with her back to the rest of the room. The scrawny American complied eagerly. He grabbed the bills from the table and started to back his chair up until it bumped into the large navy knapsack that he'd set behind him when he came into the joint. Moving the knapsack to the side, he edged his chair backward a couple of feet until it hit the wall behind him. Teresa moved directly before him now, her tongue licking lasciviously at her full lips. Her dark eyes seemed to smolder with lust as her pretty hands slid sensually up her body, and cupped her voluptuous breasts through the white fabric. From up close the Texan was sure, now, that she wore nothing beneath the blouse; her dark nipples were clearly discernible beneath their white covering. Now that she was only inches away, the Texan was able to inhale the tantalizing scent that seemed to linger lovingly around her. What was it? Coconut! Yes, rich sweet coconut. For a moment he envisioned himself tasting and licking and sucking that sweetness from her gorgeous body. Especially those delicous breasts! The eager little man leaned forward, his crooked, tobacco-stained yellow teeth clenched in a rictus of lust. The men at the American's table shifted their chairs trying to get a better look, as Teresa's thumbnails stroked slowly back and forth across the white fabric that covered her breast tips. Out of the corner of his eye, the American could see the player on his left furtively rubbing his crotch. But he tried to focus on the dancer, watching greedily as those dark points slowly swelled, becoming more and more apparent, until they made bold indentations in the thin fabric. Teresa's dancing had caused her to perspire freely even on this cool October night, and the American watched as one large bead of perspiration leaked down into the rich golden valley between her delectable breasts. "You like Teresa, Senor?" she teased, as she played with his collar, her tawny breasts only a few inches from his face. "Yeah, honey, I like." The American took a dollar bill, as he had seen Montoya do, and inserted it deep it into Teresa's mouth-watering cleavage. Her breasts were at once damp and firm and warm to the touch. "How about a private dance for me later?", the American whispered, as he riffled meaningfully through the thick wad of bills. He liked a good show as much as the next man; but the little man was in need of more than a show. A lot more. It had been a couple of months since he'd had a woman. And this Mexican cutie was hot as a firecracker. "Si," she whispered softly, "in one hour." He wondered, as he watched one of her hands slide up underneath the blouse to caress herself, whether she liked to play rough. Course it didn't much matter, he thought to himself. One he got this Latin lovely alone he'd get his money's worth. One way or another. Teresa's eyes were on the American stranger's, but her brain was counting his money. It was going to be a profitable evening, she thought to herself, as she removed her hand from her breast and lifted it to her mouth, drawing her index finger all the way in, sucking on it, and then rolling her tongue around it lovingly. But there was something unsettling about this little man and the way he looked at her. His gray-green eyes seemed to burn holes through her clothes, so intent was his stare; but there was more than lust in his eyes -- she was used to lust. There was something else. Something deeper. Something darker. Something dangerous? During the minute or two that she had been dancing in front of the stranger, Teresa was cognizant of the fact that she was ignoring the other men to some extent. She had kept her hips moving, though, giving them all a good look at her churning buttocks as she moved to the music. Now, having made her assignation with the stranger, she moved away again, gliding from table to table, spinning, twirling, baring long stretches of satiny legs, as she danced with more and more abandon. She did a deep dip in front of Montoya; who almost choked on his drink as he devoured the deep valley between her breasts with his eyes. He was sure that he'd caught a glimpse of the dark crests of her breasts this time. There was one table in the corner of the cantina, near Hector the guitarist, for whom Teresa did not dance. The American stranger pondered that briefly. There were two men at that table, unshaven, poorly dressed, and each had a surly expression. The younger of the two, by a few years, was perhaps 25, and wore a patch over one eye, which gave him a somewhat menacing quality. The other one sported a ring that could be seen from clear across the room -- a big heavy setting and a worthless stone, the American figured -- just like a stupid Mexican. The two clapped along with the others as Teresa completed her dance with a seductive shimmy to Hector's closing crescendo. Teresa, breathing heavily from her exertions, stopped and whispered to Eye-patch for a moment. Moments later, Eyepatch, apparently rebuked, spoke to his compadre, "Vamos", and the two men rose and left, exchanging adioses with the men at Montoya's table. When Hector stood and waved to acknowledge the applause, the stranger noticed that the old one had only one leg; the other ended in a stump above his knee. Hector packed up his guitar, gave Teresa a friendly smile and, with the aid of a sturdy looking cane, slowly made his way out the door. In a few minutes Montoya and his companions got up to leave; the stranger watched the big mustachioed Mexican make a grab for Teresa's butt, but she evaded his groping, and told him to go on home to his wife. That left only the four poker players at his own table. The stranger was up about fifty bucks, he reckoned, which was a lot of money in the year of our Lord 1885. His opponents appeared to be prosperous farmers from the area; the harvest was nearly all in, now, and they must have had a good year. But they were lousy poker players, the American thought gleefully to himself. Better yet, they weren't very vigilant. Several times, when it had been his deal, he had stalled for time until Teresa was moving around the room; when her luscious young body was in motion he could have dealt from his left boot, and his opponents wouldn't have noticed. As it was, dealing a few well-timed seconds and bottoms could make all the difference in a poker game. Most of his winnings had come on three big pots that he had dealt -- an hour or so apart, so as not to attract suspicion -- and his sleight-of-hand with a deck of cards, which would never have fooled a pro, was plenty good enough to work on these dumb Mexicans. Speaking of that luscious young body, the stranger was anxious to end the game now. He watched Teresa as she leaned over the bar to wipe up a spill, most of her generous tits offered to his view. Christ! he couldn't wait to get his hands on them! And his mouth. The stranger folded the next three hands in quick succession, and his opponents, seeing that they had little chance of winning their money back that night, rather disgustedly began to put their money away. And then, wishing Teresa a good night, they slowly filed out into the darkness. Within a few minutes the little Texan's palms were itching as he watched the Mexican beauty finish sweeping the floor before closing up; he was as randy as a rooster. Finally she was done, the bar cleaned up, the shutters closed, the doors locked. She turned toward him, her dark eyes bold, inviting. "Would senor like his private dance, now?" 'Senor' choked out, "Yeah, sweetie, that would suit me just fine." And the American held up a handful of bills. He'd cashed in most of the coins with her earlier, so he'd have less to carry. "Then come with me; I have a room in the back, where we can be more - how do you say it - comfortable." And with a flounce, Teresa turned away, and walked through the doorway into the kitchen. When he hesitated, she turned to face him, long-nailed fingers undoing one of the last two buttons of her bodice, displaying even more of her delicious breast flesh. "What is wrong, senor?" she pouted, "Don't you want Teresa to dance for you?" "I'm right behind you, baby." The little Texan was on his feet now, his cock as hard as wrought iron. The rat-faced man grabbed his knapsack and followed Teresa into the kitchen, still aromatic from the pungent aroma of carne asada and frijoles. His eyes never left Teresa's hot little butt as he followed her. Her oh-so-spankable ass seemed to have a twitching, teasing life of its own. He couldn't wait to get his hands on it. He was only dimly aware, as he passed through the kitchen, of the great wood-burning stove, the barrels of flour and corn meal in one corner, the large burlap sack filled with onions, and the one with a finer mesh that held pinto beans, all propped up against a series of cupboards where pots, pans, and other utensils were stored. Small baskets on a rickety old table near the stove held tomatoes, cloves of garlic and an assortment of chiles. But the American wasn't hungry just now; at least not for food. Teresa carefully opened a door that led into a dark room beyond. In the dimness, her guest could see that it was clearly Teresa's room, furnished in red and gold; the fresh scent of aloe hung in the air. A sturdy looking bed with massive iron framework butted out from the wall on his left. There were two large windows open on the far wall, which was somewhat surprising given the coolness of the night. But the Texan gave that circumstance little thought as he stood in the doorway, mesmerized as Teresa began to hum the tune old Hector had played. Standing at the end of the bed she began to sway slowly, sensuously. Only one last nipple-high button held her breast-filled blouse together. "Would you like to help me with this, senor?" she said teasingly, as she danced. "I'm having trouble with it." "You bet I'll help, honey..." the American moved toward her hungrily. As he did so he sensed something or someone standing in the corner behind the door. But only for a moment, as his head exploded in pain. Stunned, he fell to one knee, only half-conscious. His vision hopelessly blurred, he thought he saw a man with two eye-patches on the same side of his face behind him, while on his left lurked a sullen two-headed man wearing a big ring on both of his right hands. "Carlos," Teresa was speaking to Eyepatch, "Can you believe that this Yankee pig thought I would let his filthy hands touch me?" Teresa sneered. "You look like a rat, bastardo, and you steenk like one, too!" Dazed, the Texan tried to push her away as she grabbed for the wad of bills in his hand. At a signal from Teresa, the empty tequila bottle descended again across the side of his face and the American fell face forward, losing consciousness, blood pouring from his scalp, as he felt Teresa's hands tear the knapsack from his shoulder. "Bueno, Pepe, Bueno!" she said gleefully, as she rifled the knapsack, retrieving his money. And then, turning to Carlos, "Take el hijo de puta out the back window, where you came in, so no one will see; you know where to take his body." She rummaged through the knapsack quickly, but its only other contents were clothes badly in need of washing. "Basura!" She handed the 'trash' to Pepe to discard. "Si, Teresa; we know. To the arroyo seco -- como los otros. Vamos, Pepe!" And Carlos and his companion from the table earlier in the evening lugged the American's body to the window. Outside, a burro and a cart were waiting. 'Si, like the others," Teresa mumbled to herself. "Vaya al diablo, norteamericano!' the dark-haired beauty muttered as her brothers pulled the gringo's skinny body through the window. "Well done, my brothers," Teresa whispered to herself, as she counted the proceeds. One less gringo in the world, she thought to herself, and a few dollars more for her journey to California -- it had been a rewarding evening.
Chapter II The Man in Black One week to the day after Carlos and Pepe had disposed of the body, Teresa was again holding court on a Saturday night at the cantina. She had been in a good mood at the beginning of the evening, but it was well past 10:00 now and for some reason she was feeling a little edgy. The air outside had been heavy all day, the sky dark and threatening. Hector had been complaining all evening that his missing leg was giving him mucho dolor -- a sure sign that a storm was brewing. A sprinkling of regulars were scattered around the little tavern, mostly discussing how this autumn storm might affect what remained of the harvest. Oddly, thought Teresa, there was another stranger in the cantina tonight. Another American. But where the one last weekend had been a grinning little twerp of a man, no taller than Teresa's 5' 6", tonight it was an unsmiling giant who sat at the corner of the bar. He had to be at least 6' 4", Teresa thought to herself, and he looked as threatening as the sky outside. Just to keep busy, she picked up a decrepit broom and began to sweep the dusty cantina floor. The big man took a swig from the bottle of tequila that he had told Teresa to leave, his eyes returning her stare for a moment and then descending to her alluring young figure. Which he studied as frankly as if it belonged to him. Teresa was wearing a sexy black satin bolero top with six shiny metal buttons -- the top three of which were unfastened, leaving her generous breasts half-revealed. Several inches of golden-bronze midriff, indented with a kissable little navel, separated the bolero from the white skirt which hugged her hips. He watched with interest as the gentle motion of her sweeping caused her full breasts to bobble appetizingly beneath the black satin. The stranger looked to be in his mid-thirties and was dressed in black from his big, coal-colored stetson down to his long black boots. His dark shirt and denims were dusty from the trail; his black attire was interrupted only by a large silver 'J' on the buckle of his shiny, two-inch-wide black belt. It struck Teresa that the belt looked newer, and better cared for, than the rest of his garb. The stranger's worn stetson was pulled down shadowing a pair of fierce-looking beetle brows and sinister dark eyes. Acrid smoke curled up from a foul cigar that smoldered in the ash tray. Teresa could almost feel the heat from his eyes on her breasts -- his eyes had rarely left her body in the hour since he had come in and ordered the bottle. Teresa was used to being admired; usually she enjoyed it. But, somehow this man reminded her of a giant bird of prey, eyeing his quarry from a distance. Hairy wrists and hands protruded from his dark cuffs. Although his facial features were not unattractive, he seemed all arms and legs -- like a hairy black spider. He sported a bristly angry-looking mustache, and his cheeks and chin were covered with a three-day old growth of beard. There was something about his small unblinking black eyes that reminded her of a ... what? Un reptil, that was it! A snake. The man in black had the cold dead eyes of a snake. Somehow the weather and the stranger had cast a pall over the room; the customers were listless, and the tips had hardly been worth counting. She had danced one sensuous habanera for the customers, but her heart hadn't been in it. Maybe because the big American had stared at her shapely figure as if he were a huge black spider and she were a tasty young fly trapped in his web. Hector, sensing her lack of involvement, had bade her good night and limped out into the darkness half an hour ago. It was going on 11:00 now, and the locals were beginning to file out, looking up and gesturing at the dark sky as they stood in the doorway before heading out into the night. But the tall stranger made no move to leave, even though Teresa had told him a quarter of an hour earlier that the cantina would be closing soon. Teresa wondered if she should ask Montoya or one of the others to stick around, but then decided it was just nerves. And besides -- Carlos and Pepe would be coming soon. They invariably stopped by before 11:00 to make sure everything was locked up securely. "Closing now, Senor," she called to El Reptil nervously. She couldn't believe that he had drunk nearly half a bottle of her strongest tequila in little more than an hour. "I ain't finished yet," the sinister figure in black snarled. "I ordered this bottle and I'm gonna drink it!" Outside a long, slow rumble of thunder began, growing, as the seconds passed, into a tremendous thunder-clap, punctuated in its closing split-second by a dazzling lightning bolt that illumined the sky. Teresa had moved toward the window when the thunder began; she jumped back slightly when the thunder peaked and the lightning flashed illuminating the deserted mission across the street, and the somehow sinister headstones in the adjoining cemetery. She didn't like storms. And she didn't like being alone with this forbidding stranger. "What's the matter? You scared of a little thunderstorm?" the man in black asked mockingly. "Let me tell you, chiquita, there's lots a worse things in the world than a thunderstorm. A thunderstorm ain't gonna hurt you -- 'ceptin' by accident." The tall stranger took another long pull at the tequila, as she turned back toward him, and he gave her another long slow visual once-over, his black eyes lingering on the deep cleft between her succulent breasts, before meeting hers. "Senor, I must close up now." Teresa's voice was quavery. "You will have to go." "I told you," the man in black hissed through clenched teeth, "I ain't leavin' 'til I've finished my bottle. Tell you what, honey, why don't you come sit beside me -- it'll help pass the time." The big man gave her a toothy smile that, Teresa felt, betokened lust more than amiability. Another deafening thunderclap rumbled through the heavens. Sheets of rain had begun to fall outside, partially obscuring the intermittent flashes of lightning. Teresa couldn't remember such a frightening storm -- especially at this time of year. The clock read 11:10 now. Where WERE her brothers? And then she heard someone pulling at the door. "Carlos! Pepe! Is that you?" cried Teresa, as she ran across to the door, exclaiming as she opened it, "Thank God, you're here." But when she opened the door wide there was no one there. Through the driving rain she could barely make out the dark silhouette of the deserted mission and the eerie upright headstones on the other side of the now muddy street. But she could see little else in the darkness save for the cascades of rain pouring down from the heavens. Nearby, a river of rainwater was running off the roof, and pouring down the gutter and collecting in a large metal tub a few feet to her right. A gust of wind blew some of the rain toward her; she felt a cool fine mist on the front of her body for a moment. Just then a great crackle of lightning lit up the sky, and in that brief flash of light she thought she saw a ghostly figure in the darkness. Shaking her head at her foolish fancies, Teresa turned to go back inside. But as she did so something cold and clammy touched her hand as she tried to pull the door shut. Teresa jumped in terror and turned to confront whatever had touched her. And what she saw made her blanche with fear. For standing in the doorway, rivulets of rain pouring off of his filthy hat, was the ghastly, gruesome visage of a small, rat-faced man, carrying a familiar navy knapsack. "Howdy, darlin'," the stranger from the prior Saturday night whispered softly, a malicious grin on his face. "I'm back from the dead. Trick or Treat?"
Chapter III Back from the Dead Teresa nearly fainted. The stranger had been no prize to begin with; but now the left side of his face was horribly caved in where Carlos had struck him with the bottle. His bloodshot left eye was almost entirely closed -- it was deeply sunken into the swollen and discolored flesh of his face and temple; but he seemed otherwise OK. "But... how?" she stammered, backing away. Teresa stepped back into the room, and as the drenched little man followed her across the threshold, she backed away from him. The gruesome figure licked his lips as his good eye devoured her body. Teresa's momentary exposure to the downpour had left her face, shoulders, and golden belly slightly wet; the damp satin top clung tightly to her spectacular breasts. The chill of the night air caused her nipples to spike noticeably against the thin cloth. Despite her earlier apprehension, Teresa retreated behind the seated figure of the man drinking at the bar, seeking protection. She reasoned that the tall man in black was surely less dangerous than the little man that she had sent to his death. "Make him go away," she implored the figure in black; I do not like this man!" The newcomer threw the heavy knapsack on top of the nearest table, and smiled a crooked smile revealing uneven yellowing teeth. "Now don't be that way, Teresa. You stood me up the other night. I just come back to git what I was fixin' to git that night. It's Halloween night where I come from. And I've come back from the dead just to celebrate it with you." El Reptil's long arm snaked around Teresa's trembling shoulders protectively, noticing the dampness of the bolero. He inhaled the sweet scent of coconut that wafted upwards from the hollow between shapely breasts. "Don't you worry yerself none, Ma'am." Then he turned toward the dripping figure in the doorway. "I don't think the lady wants you here, pardner. Maybe you'd better move along." The girl shot the tall man in black a warm glance, and a whispered "Gracias"; perhaps she had misjudged him. Thank God he was here now. "I don't really give a fuck what the lady wants, you big ugly prick!" the little man responded fiercely, pulling a gun and pointing it at the big man's chest. The big man calmly took another long swig from the bottle, wiped his mouth, turned to face the dripping man with the gun and said, "Who you callin' a ugly prick, you sawed-off little weasel! And put that fuckin' gun, down, Ernie, before you shoot somebody! Probably yer own damn self!" When the big man called the little man by name, Teresa gave him a puzzled look. "Tell him to go away!" she whispered nervously. A jagged flash of lightning outside followed by a deafening crackle of atmospheric electricity heightened Teresa's anxiety, as her gaze moved from one man to the other. The tension in the cantina was palpable. It would not have comforted Teresa to know the history of the two men who had come to share Halloween night with her. The smaller of the two was Ernie Gibbs, a sawed-off runt of a man who had the reputation of being the meanest little prick in Texas. Perhaps because of his small size, he carried a chip on his shoulder the size of the Alamo; Ernie didn't take shit from anyone, particularly from women he felt had done him wrong. Ernie's rage was never far from the surface, and tonight, despite his maniacal grin, it was of volcanic proportions. And, Teresa knew, she was the object of that rage. The tall man, the one with the reptilian eyes, was Black Jack Slocum. He was a mean son-of-a-bitch, too, but while Ernie was sneaky and under-handed, big Jack was about as subtle as a stampede. Ernie was a conniving little bastard; Jack was the kind of hombre who saw what he wanted, reached out and took it. And he was looking at Teresa Martinez the way a hungry vaquero looks at a golden-brown pollo roasting on a spit. "Oh, he'll go away, little lady." The man in black gave her a toothy smile as his long arm tightened its grip around her shoulders. "Eventually. But not until he's got what he's come for. Ain't that right, Ernie?" "Right, Jack," Ernie smiled as he reholstered his weapon. "Did I have ya goin' there for a minute, when I got the drop on ya?" he giggled. Ernie squinted out of his damaged left eye. "I'd a been here sooner, if my goddam horse hadn't gone half-loco in all that thunder and lightning. Ernie's one good eye met the Latina's. "Me and our little dancin' girl here got some unfinished business to attend to, don't we Teresa? We was just fixin' to get better acquainted when those two goons jumped me. Lucky you happened to see them ridin' off with me in that cart that night, Jack. Or I'd a died in that fuckin' canyon they dumped me in. I owe you for that one, Jack." Teresa was now certain that her two late-night callers were on friendly terms, and she opened her mouth to scream, but the man in black clapped a huge hand over her mouth. "Sorry, honey, we can't have you callin' none of yer greaser amigos. Not that anyone's likely to hear you during this cloudburst. Figure we should gag her, Ern?" "She's wearing her gag, Big Jack. Between her legs. Ain't you, Teresita?" The terrified girl shook her head no, but the one called Ernie looked quickly outside again to make sure no one was around, and came back inside. Teresa could hear the terrible finality of the click of the lock as he latched the door shut. "Take 'em off, mija," the little man said sternly. "Yer panties, I mean. If you're wearin' any, that is." Teresa struggled in Jack's powerful grasp, but to no avail. She tried again to scream, but Black Jack Slocum stifled her by placing a huge hairy hand over her mouth. "You stood me up the other night, Teresa. I had to re-schedule our date for tonight. Me and my buddy, Jack, here is gonna make it a double date. Ain't we, Jack? We're gonna have us a little Halloween party -- just the three of us. You're going to be the treat, Teresa. And in here," he patted the blue knapsack, "I've brought a little bag of tricks. Ya see, me and Jack like playin' tricks -- especially on pretty young girls like you." "Right, Ern. You should be honored, little lady, to have two gentleman callers on the same night." "That's right, Big Jack. You're gonna find us real attentive, Teresa. REAL attentive. Me and Jack, here, we go way back. We've .. uh... entertained a lot of girls, ain't we Jack? But I should tell you something -- Jack don't much like Mexicans. Ya see, it was a Mexican girl in Texas that got Jack's ass sent to prison. For life. Until I helped him bust out." "Yeah, and while I was in that stinkin' hellhole, the head guard was a bean-eater named Morales. Paco Morales. And Morales, when he found out that I'd raped a Mexican girl, took it upon his ugly self to put me in a compound with five wetbacks. Those five jumped my ass the first night I was there, and stomped me so bad that I peed blood for a week. And that's pretty much the way it went for four fuckin' years." "So ya see, Teresa," the desperado in black growled, as he held the struggling girl tightly, "I ain't too kindly disposed toward fuckin' Mexicans. But I'm fixin' to even up the score a little tonight." "Yeah, Jack -- like we evened the score with that sweet young blonde back in Texas!" {Author's note -- Honey Wilson was the pretty blonde adolescent who had been an accidental witness to the Mexican girl's rape. She had testified against Black Jack Slocum, ensuring his conviction and imprisonment. He had vowed revenge the day the jury returned the verdict against him. Four years later, Ernie Gibbs had helped Jack escape from that hellhole of a prison and he and Slocum had met up at the remote Wilson ranch in west Texas, where Ernie had tracked Honey Wilson. Jack and Ernie had surprised the nineteen-year-old blonde, who by now grown into a teasing, voluptuous beauty, alone on her daddy's ranch, and for two days the desperados had exacted a cruel revenge on her shapely young body. And then the two criminals had fled the law by crossing into Mexico, and they had been riding westward since. The full story of Honey Wilson's ordeal is told in "The Outlaw's Revenge" } Now let's see about that gag." Ernie approached the young Latina, who was struggling helplessly in Jack's grasp. "Put her over that barstool, Jack." And effortlessly the big man forced the struggling beauty down, face forward, over a sturdy three-legged barstool. Ernie approached her, lifted her white skirt high above her waist, and paused to admire the view. "Nice legs, eh, Jack? Didn't I tell you?" Black Jack Slocum was indeed admiring the thrashing brown legs of their prey; her dancing had stood her in good stead. Her legs were long and curved and had excellent muscle tone. While he held her down with one powerful arm, his left hand stroked the firm flesh of her thighs. Those long legs would look even better, Jack mused, when he had painted them with a few stripes with Black Betsy, the dark and sinister leather strap that he wore through his belt loops. "Hold still, bitch!" Ernie was trying to get at her panties, but while Jack had her upper body pinned to the stool, her legs were kicking wildly, trying to escape his groping touch. When she wouldn't stop squirming, Ernie gave Jack an evil grin. "She got spirit, don't she?" And then, no longer smiling, he whispered to Teresa through clenched yellowing teeth, "OK, if that's the way you want to play!" Ernie retreated to the knapsack, opened it and pulled out a short whip, a nasty-looking weapon comprised of a black handle and four strips of tough rawhide. Then, he walked back over, knelt down in front of her and showed her the whip. "Guess I'm going to have to learn you how to behave. You got her skirt, Jack? That's it. Just keep it pulled up." And Ernie, walked around behind her and brought the rawhide down with a sharp CRAACCK! across Teresa's legs just above her knees. "Aiiie!" she yelped and kicked again. "Shut the fuck up, bitch!" and Ernie CRAACKED! her again, midway up her legs, the tough leather biting deeply into her brown flesh. "Hold still!" But the athletic legs kept thrashing, so Ernie whipped her soft thighs again, higher up this time. And then he slashed her again, right across the fresh mark he had just left. "Aggghh!!" Teresa hollered in earnest this time and redoubled her efforts to get away. But Snake-eyes held her fast, while El Raton continued to slash at the backs of her beautifully squirming thighs. Ernie Gibbs had to give her three more scathing lashes across her pretty young legs before she finally stopped kicking. When she did, he asked, "Are you going to hold still, now?" She nodded yes. And Ernie reached for her panties, and slowly rolled them down over the ripe curves of her buttcheeks. "Look at that sweet ass, Jack!" Ernie exulted, as he gave her buttocks a good squeeze. "We're gonna have us some fun with this one, ain't we?" Ernie smacked her golden buttocks sharply with his bare hand, still cold and wet from the rain. "Nice firm cheeks, Jack!" He spanked her again, harder this time, just above the wadded up panties that hugged the base of her bottom. "Nice and round and firm! They oughta be able to take a lot of punishment." Ernie smacked her left buttock again, pleased with the warmth, contour and resilience of Teresa's assflesh. "You know, Jack, I'll bet our little senorita's part nigger!" Teresa was surprised that the ugly little man had guessed that; her great-grand-mother had been an Afro-Cuban. Teresa had always surmised that some of her own dancing talent, as well as a certain exotic quality to her lovely features, had come from Mama Nita. "Bad luck for you, girlie -- Jack don't like niggers any more'n he does Mexicans." Ernie's cold, damp hand found its way between Teresa's naked legs and groped her for a moment, as she wriggled in revulsion. His greedy fingers explored her pink slit, as he inserted one, then two, then three fingers into her as she writhed in shame. "She's wet, Jack, just like the cock-teasing whore she is," Ernie chortled. Ernie pulled her undergarment off then, down her long shapely legs, leaving her naked from the waist down. He handed the thin wad of fabric to Jack who stuffed it in her mouth. "You spit that out, and you'll wish you hadn't!" Jack warned her. Ernie debated whether to tie their prisoner up; but for what he had in mind leaving her untied, at least for the time being, might be more fun. "Stand her up, Jack!"
Chapter 4 The Doorway of Hell Slocum pulled Teresa back to her feet and turned her toward Ernie, her skirt still up around her waist. The man with the disfigured face licked his lips as he admired the dark thatch between her legs, and the delicious soft folds of labial flesh "OK, honey let's get that damn thing out of the way." And Ernie tore the hiked-up skirt away, leaving her loins and legs naked. And then Black Jack swung her around so that she was facing him, and he ripped down the middle of the bolero as if it were tissue paper, sending its three buttons careening across the cantina floor, and revealing for an instant the swelling mounds of her bosom, until Teresa pulled the two gaping flaps of cloth together so that they partially covered her heaving breasts. Ernie was amused by her modesty; as if he and Jack weren't intending to strip her of all of her pretensions as well as her clothes when they were good and ready! But he was in a playful mood, too. "Since it's our first date, Teresa, how 'bout we play us a little parlor game? How does that sound?" Teresa looked from one man to the other, hoping for a little sympathy, mumbled, "Bueno." "Hey, Jack. How about we play us a little three-way game of "Reach for the Sky"? The towering Slocum leered down at the cowering Teresa. He and Ernie had introduced an attractive but stuck-up young widow from back east to this 'game' back in San Antone, some five years ago, not long before he had gone into the slammer. The auburn-haired heiress had pissed Jack off on a coach ride they had shared, by looking at him and talking to him as if he were no better than a buffalo turd. It didn't pay to piss off Black Jack Slocum. A few nights later he and Ernie had abducted the refined Judith Prescott Warburton - of the Philadelphia Prescotts - and, after blindfolding the twenty-six year old beauty, took her out to an abandoned shack about ten miles outside of town. Once there they had stripped her fine young body naked and forced to 'reach' for three hours, punishing her savagely for each misstep. By the time they were done with her, the snotty red-headed bitch was groveling before them, offering to do anything - anything - to stop the torment. Jack and Ernie had taken her up on her gracious offer. Jack could still remember the tantalizing sensation of those once-haughty lips slavishly kissing and licking him all around his asscrack. It had taken only a few more strokes from Ernie's black-tailed bullwhip across Judy's bleeding buttocks to induce their trim-figured captive to bury her pretty pink rich girl tongue hilt-deep in Jack's asshole. After that pleasant diversion, Jack had forced her to lick his hairy balls for about an hour before offering her his prodigious cock to worship. Judith Prescott had sucked him and Ernie dry on that hot Texas night. The only bad thing about that little fiesta was that they had to keep her blindfolded, so Judith Prescott never knew that it was her snotty treatment of her fellow-passenger that had led to her degradation. But there was no need for blindfolds tonight -- he and Ernie were gonna have some fun with this comely dark-eyed senorita and then high-tail it for the safety of the Arizona border. Jack's salacious smile widened as he ogled Teresa's delicious nakedness and fantasized about the night to come. But unlike those endless nights in prison, this was no fantasy -- it was just him and Ernie and the gorgeous young Latina. Coming back to reality he grunted, "Fine, Ern. Sounds like a winner." "OK, honey," Ernie turned to Teresa, "We're gonna play 'Reach for the Sky'. Get yer ass over here." When she hesitated Jack shoved her roughly from behind. She gamely tried to hold her top together in front to cover her jutting breasts. Ernie preceded her through the dark doorway in to the kitchen. But when she tried to follow him through the doorway, he stopped her. "We ain't really got a parlor, here, so this doorway's gonna have to do. You stand right there. Under the doorway. Now reach up and touch the top of the molding, while I light me one of these oil lamps. I want to get a good look at you, senorita." Behind her, Jack Slocum slowly began unbuckling Black Betsy, his evil-looking black leather belt; he had played this game before. "You heard the man, sweetheart. Get those arms up in the air, pronto," he growled. Teresa hesitated, knowing that by reaching upward she would disturb the thin satin that barely covered her breasts. But her pause was greeted with a scalding flash of lightning across the backs of her legs. "Do what yer told!" she heard Jack growl angrily. "Get yer arms up there!" "Unnhh!" she groaned as Jack ripped into the sweet caramel thigh-flesh once again with the big belt. The thunderous CRACCKK! of the blow seemed to mimic the tumult in the heavens outside. This time the force of the blow knocked the panties clean out of her mouth. "My partner told you to keep those in yer fuckin' mouth!" Ernie snarled angrily as he set the newly-lit oil lamp down on a nearby counter, and picked the garment up off of the none-too-clean floor and crammed it back into her mouth. "Jack, I don't think Senorita Martinez, here, is showin' you the proper respect." Jack, as usual, said nothing, but slammed the tough black leather into the backs of Teresa's thighs again, letting its fierce end curl around her pretty legs. Choking back her pain, and desperate to obey now, Teresa stood on her tiptoes and stretched to her fullest. But even though she was almost 5' 7", her well-kept nails barely reached the top of the molding around the seven-foot high door. Teresa had had the presence of mind to reach up with both hands straight above her; this motion helped to hold her bolero somewhat together in the front. She blushed as she watched Ernie ogle the inner curves of her jutting breasts and the mossy patch between her legs. Meanwhile, Jack had stepped closer; she could feel him running the edge of his doubled-up belt through the cleft in her butt cheeks. "See, that wasn't so bad, was it? Now all you have to do is stay in that position and you'll be fine." Ernie winked at Jack. "See? I'm givin' you a lot of chances. You and them two goons of yours didn't give me none. But, I'm gonna warn you, sweetie. If you let go of the top of that molding, Jack's gonna be upset because you ain't followin' the rules of the game. Ain't that right, Jack?" "Seems only fair to me, Ern. How ya doing, Teresa?" Jack, standing behind their naked young captive, admired the way the muscles in her calves, thighs, and buttocks strained to allow her to retain her grip on the molding. Teresa was in excellent physical shape for sure. That was good, thought Jack, for two reasons: A) He didn't like flabby women; and B) she figured to be able to take a lot of punishment. Cause a lot of punishment was what this raven-haired Mexican beauty was going to get. And he was just the man to dish it out! Poor Teresa could tell, inside of two minutes, that she could not sustain her extended posture for long. And then Ernie made it worse. Squinting at the marvelous play of light and shadow on her half-naked breasts and dark-thatched belly, he said, "You're doin' fine, Honey. But yer hands are too close together; I want 'em apart!" When, again, Teresa hesitated briefly, Jack's black belt exploded across the backs of her taut, naked thighs again, causing her to groan pitiably into the gag. "When you goin' to learn to do as you're told?" It was everything Teresa could do to keep her hands in contact with the top of the doorway. And slowly she moved them a few inches apart, as Ernie had ordered. Meanwhile Ernie's good eye was glued to her tits, as the black satin top parted a bit more when she spread her hands. "Yeah, that's it, " Ernie leered as more of her breasts were exposed. "A little more, now, sweetie," Ernie instructed, grinning lewdly. He could of course have pulled the bolero back or even off any time he wanted to. But Ernie liked to play games. Especially games with big-breasted beauties like Teresa Martinez. Teresa slid her hands another inch or two apart, revealing a little more breastflesh. "Christ, Jack" Ernie called to his partner, "She's got some tasty jugs!" He could see the inner edges of her dark aureoles now; if she were to move a little more her slinky top would surely fall away from those perky, pouting knockers she had teased him with just a few nights ago. "Wider," Ernie whispered, his voice hoarse with lust. Flushing, the dark-eyed beauty moved her hands another couple of inches apart, causing the shredded fabric to fall away from her splendid pleasure-globes altogether. Ernie the Weasel's tongue licked his thin lips with delight. Teresa's nipples had been well worth the wait. They were chips of sweet dark chocolate centered on two delicious-looking scoops of mocha-colored tit-flesh. "Bueno," Ernie murmured almost inaudibly. "Mu-y fucking bueno!" He moved toward her as if to cup her breasts and Teresa unthinkingly reacted by lowered her arms to fend him off. In less than a second she felt the fiery kiss of Jack's belt on her buttocks. Followed momentarily by a vicious slap from the ferret-faced man that stung the inner curve of her firm right breast. "Keep yer fuckin' hands up!" Ernie roared. Teresa hastily complied, stretching toward the ceiling again. Teresa's dark eyes, smoldering with a mixture of hatred and fear, glared fiercely at Ernie; his hands were still damp from the rain. She shrank from his noxious touch, but condemned to hold on to the molding as she was, her pathetic attempts at evasion were unavailing. "Carlos," she pleaded silently, "Please come! Where were her brothers?" she wondered. Ernie's face darkened when she tried to turn away. "I don't think she likes me, Jack. I think we're gonna have to teach this lady a little lesson." Ernie said, as he cupped her gorgeous melons in his gnarly fingers. Her breasts were warm in his cool, wet hands. As he had on the night of their first encounter, he savored the rich sweet smell of coconut that clung to her body. She must have used the oil liberally on her golden globes, he thought. Her skin was baby-soft. But her breasts were firm in his greedy hands. Just the way he liked 'em. The little man's good eye was wrathful as he was forced to look up to meet her dark eyes; her vertical stretch reminded him again, as he had been reminded all his life, of his small stature. Ernie's face was inches from hers now, his breath foul. "I'm gonna cut you down to size, girlie," he whispered in a voice charged with suppressed rage, his voice so low that Jack, standing only half a dozen feet away could not hear. Teresa felt his rough hands tighten menacingly on her tender breasts. And then, in a louder voice, "When she lowers her hands, give it to her good, Jack. Right across that sweet ass! I wanna feel her tits jump!" Teresa's arms were already bone-weary. She felt Ernie's paws mauling her breasts as she desperately tried to hold on to the molding overhead. The battle, Ernie knew, could only have one end. "How long," he sneered, "Do you reckon you can keep yer arms up there, you thieving Mexican whore?"
Chapter V Black Betsy Teresa glared at the horrible little man with the misshapen face and the swollen eye, and took a deep breath, determined to hold on to the molding for dear life. For his part, Ernie grinned sadistically and continued to fondle her mouthwatering breasts, every now and then dropping one of his tobacco-stained hands to the juncture of her thighs, where he pried open the soft lips of her womanhood and worked his fingers inside. Jack, meanwhile stood patiently behind her, black belt in hand, waiting for her to falter, as falter she eventually must. And he thought back on how he had come to own the punishing belt, whose frightful kiss no woman who'd felt it would ever forget. Jack had gotten "Black Betsy" from an ancient Indian who had told him that he'd discovered a mysterious leather-tanning process that produced the toughest, meanest, most devastating leather in the world. Jack had been eager but skeptical. But after trying the strap out on the soft skin of Black Crow's nubile grand-daughter he had been convinced. Her frenzied writhings and anguished cries as he'd ripped into her shapely buttocks with the strap Black Crow had offered him had borne ample witness to the bitterness of Betsy's bite. Strangely, whether because of some mystical Indian mumbo-jumbo or some cryptic chemistry, the Indian's leather, he had been assured, left marks that, however deep, however lurid, faded within hours or at most a few days. Jack had come back, at the old man's invite, a few days later, and sure enough the nasty marks he had left on the young girl's heart-shaped bottom had almost completely faded away. And Black Jack liked that -- he liked marking young girls up with his belt -- liked it a lot. But it was nice to have a fresh canvas to paint on, too. Betsy's strange properties had been proven once again, Jack remembered, at the Wilson ranch. Honey Wilson's beautifully sun-bronzed skin had indeed recovered very quickly from the savage flogging he had given her on the first night at the Wilson Ranch. But tonight it was lovely Teresa's turn to feel the sharp kiss of Black Betsy. Jack, standing slightly at an angle behind the stretching girl, studied the graceful lines of Teresa's body. The bolero covered, but could not conceal, her well-toned rounded shoulders partly covered by cascades of lustrous black hair, and her graceful back The black top ended a few inches below her breast line, displaying an expanse of golden skin and the inviting hollow just above the base of her elegant spine. Her back tapered to a tiny waist whose diameter he could have almost spanned with one of his huge hands. Below her trim waist, her hips swelled nicely. Teresa's taut arms quivered with fatigue while Jack studied her ripely rounded buttocks, aquiver with apprehension. Jack's lips parted in a wolfish grin as he patiently watch the helpless nude beauty struggle to keep her arms aloft. But time, time at its most relentless and inexorable, eventually took its toll, and gradually the strength ebbed from her shoulders, and a deep, dull ache began to growl louder and louder from every muscle, until at last she could take no more, and her weary arms gave out and fell limply to her sides. With a quick motion Jack took the big black belt back and whipped it down hard until it exploded like a gunshot -- CRAACKK!! on the base of Teresa's nicely-curved bottom. "Unnggh" she grunted through the gag. Her heart-shaped culo was on fire! Ernie had seen her weakening and his hands had returned to breasts. When the blow fell, he felt her jugs jiggle deliciously in his hands. This was gonna be a night to remember, he thought to himself. "Get 'em back up there, bitch!" he warned. Teresa tried but there was little strength left in her arms, and less than a minute later her strength gave out again. CRAACCKK!! Jack smoked her again, this time punishing the ripest curves of her ass, drawing another plaintive "Unngghh" in response. Meanwhile Ernie's ragged nails had honed in on her tender nipples. ""Get 'em up!" the little man threatened. "And think of somethin' sexy,darlin'" he said as he clawed at her cocoa-colored nipples. I want these babies hard!" Teresa frantically lifted her burning arms once again. While he waited, Jack eyed her golden bottom rounds, and the inviting shadowy cleft between them. Two dark streaks now marred their plump perfection. Just then his mind thought back to Morales, the sadistic Mexican prison guard; his complexion had been much the same as Teresa's. When her strength faded and her arms fell again, the thought of Morales gave added force to Jack's next blow which blistered her cafe-au-lait buttcheeks again. Three reddish-brown streaks now. "She'd have a lot more before the night was through," Jack thought with a grin. He was just getting warmed up! "Get 'em back up, you lazy whore" Ernie's mocking voice rang out, even as he worked on Teresa's stiffening nipples, tweaking and twisting them, while Jack gave her another bolt of black leather lightning across her buttcurves. Teresa lifted her lifeless arms slowly once again. Suddenly Ernie backed away, grimaced, and held a hand to his left temple, obviously in great pain. "What's wrong, pard?" Jack asked, pausing in mid-stroke. "I'm havin' me another of one them spells; ever since they slugged me with that fuckin' bottle, I been gettin' 'em off and on. Feels like I got a fuckin' railroad spike in my eye." "Well, sit down and rest a spell; pour yerself a drink. I think I got things purty well under control here. Don't I, Teresa?" The Latin beauty's hands trembled as she tried to retain her contact with the molding. She fought the pain for long torturous seconds, but gravity eventually won out, and she dropped her arms. And as soon as she did she felt the terrible leather leave a sizzling stripe across the small of her back. "When you goin' to learn to keep them arms up, honey?" Jack taunted her. "And get back up on yer fuckin' toes!" Ernie grabbed a bottle from behind the bar and took a seat at the nearest table. He took a long pull from the bottle, hoping the strong liquor would ease the pain. And then he watched as the raven-haired goddess extended her arms upward again. But there was almost no strength left in her shoulders, and when she soon faltered, she was rewarded with a vicious downward slash across her sleek, straining calves. Then, when she was still unable to respond, Black Jack Slocum unleashed a powerful blow across her hitherto unscathed shoulders, ripping a hole in the satin bolero. Jack watched as his tortured prisoner fought the pain and once again reached heavenward. A long, low rumble of thunder rolled through the summer night, tailing away, and then swelling once again before exploding into a violent thunderclap. The disturbance in the cosmos seemed an evil omen to Teresa; and so it proved to be. Somehow the Spanish word for storm - la tormenta - seemed eerily appropriate. It was only a moment later that she heard the two words that she had been dreading to hear since the beginning of the 'game'. "Turn around." Jack's voice was soft, but dripping with malignant intent.
Chapter 6 Teresa Faces the Music Teresa could feel the fear climbing sickeningly in her throat. She could take an ass-whipping, she thought. She'd had a boyfriend a year earlier who had used a razor strop on her bare bottom one night when he thought she had gotten a little too friendly with the customers. It had hurt, but the sex afterwards with Jorge had never been better. But that strap had been a toy compared to Black Betsy. The idea of that horrible belt striking the front of her body... Quaking with trepidation, she slowly turned to face the towering figure in black, being careful to keep her arms in contact with the top of the doorway. As she crossed her hands over to turn, she deftly managed to bring her hands a little closer together again, preserving, at least for a moment, the last vestiges of her modesty. Her dark hair was wild about her shoulders, and her eyes were bright with fear; her nervous tongue moistened her sultry lips. She watched as the sinister figure in black studied her tempting body, her bare legs and belly, the unruly thatch of silky pubic hair at the juncture of her thighs, the generous curves of her shapely breasts as they peeked through the tattered remnants of her thin top. "Nice," Jack mumbled under his breath as he stared hungrily at his alluring captive, "Very fucking nice." Teresa's eyes were fiery, her nostrils flaring as her breasts rose and fell heavily with each breath. The muscles in her arms screamed with pain as she fought desperately to keep the dark stranger from using the belt he fondled so lovingly. Jack's reptilian eyes never left her as he took his time unbuttoning his own shirt, enjoying the mixture of fear and defiance in her eyes. When he threw the black flannel shirt aside, Teresa could not help being both impressed and frightened by his tanned and chiseled physique; his chest was broad, and his powerful arms and shoulders were well-muscled, the result of years on the prison rock-pile. Jack's chest muscles rippled through a dense thicket of wiry hair; Teresa hated body hair on men, and Big Jack was the hairiest man she had ever seen. Ernie the Weasel watched enviously from his table; he had seen Teresa's momentary admiration for Jack's sculpted body. His body tensed in suppressed anger; he'd make her pay soon enough for preferring the bigger man! Jack, stripped to the waist, was ready for action. It wasn't long before Teresa's strength flagged again. As soon as her fingers lost contact with the molding, his muscular right arm drew back, and with a swift motion, CRACCKK! his belt scalded the tops of Teresa's long, coppery legs, causing her to grimace in pain. She instinctively lowered her hands to protect herself. Jack's voice was menacing, "Get yer hands up! And if you try that again, I'll hang you from the ceiling and whip you all night long! Don't think I won't!" And with a resounding CRACCKK!! the big man laid a burning streak of fire across her pubic mound. Teresa's dark-nippled tits bobbled temptingly under the shreds of her top. "That's it, Jack! Whip the bitch!" Ernie piped up from his nearby table. "She and her 'hermanos' bushwhacked me. About damn time that she got HER bush whacked! Ha!" Ernie chuckled at his joke. Jack said nothing but he must have been listening, because the next two CRACCKK's of the belt were a withering forehand, followed by a wicked backhand across the sensual curve of Teresa's mons. Then Jack raised his aim a few inches and gave her a stinging CRACCKK!! across her golden belly, letting the triangular tip of his belt bite into her deep-set navel. CRACCKK!! Again across the midriff, in the inviting hollow beneath her lower ribs. With each ferocious blow, Teresa gasped into her pantie-gag in pain. A thin strand of saliva escaped the corner of her mouth and hung suspended in space, just above her breast. Jack liked to hear women scream, sometimes, but he liked gagging 'em and making 'em drool, too. But still Teresa glared at Jack defiantly, as if daring him to do more. Jack had been saving the best for last. Impatient, now, to see her breasts in all of their youthful naked splendor, Jack approached her and snarled, "Let's get rid of this goddamn thing!" and tore the remaining shreds of her top away, leaving her utterly naked and vulnerable. Jack Slocum was a breast man, there was no two ways about that! He'd slapped and whipped and bound and otherwise abused the tits of more women than he could remember. But rarely had he had a pair like this to work on, he rejoiced, as Teresa's succulent breasts were at last revealed to his salacious gaze. They were proud hemispheres of tawny flesh, full and high and without a hint of sag. Capped by smallish, slightly darker aureoles, and perfect uptilting brown nipples. Jack's merciless black eyes zeroed in on a dark vein in Teresa's left breast that seemed to pulse nervously as Teresa held her seductive pose -- as if the vein somehow had a premonition of what was in store. Jack paused. "OK, honey, you can lower yer hands." Teresa relaxed, grateful for the respite; her shoulders ached from keeping her arms over her head for these long minutes. But her reprieve was of brief duration. Jack's gravelly voice growled, "Rub them nips up for me, Teresa. So's they're nice and stiff. I want 'em stickin' out real purty! Andale! Hurry up!" Another explosive burst of thunder shook the cantina and Teresa, frightened and trembling, began to stroke the soft skin of her breasts with gentle caresses, her long nails teasing her nipples skillfully. She had aroused herself this way many times before, of course, but never before such an impatient audience. Jack's reptilian gaze was were riveted to the beautiful Latina's mouth-watering breasts. He could feel his balls tighten and his big cock thicken with lust as he contemplated the delicious prospect of dealing with those two sweat-sheened pleasure-mounds. Jack, his eyes as hard and black as coal, leered at Teresa's tawny love globes. "Me gustan las tetas grandes, mija," he smirked in pidgin Spanish, as he slapped his doubled-up belt meaningfully against the palm of his left hand. "I like big tits a lot. Muy mucho!" And then he gave his partner a sidewise glance. "Ern," Jack began in measured tones, as he stepped closer to his breathless captive and slid the doubled-up belt under Teresa's succulent brown-tipped left breast. He bounced the firm flesh gently on the stiff-edged belt for a moment as he watched Teresa's graceful hands frantically striving to tease her quivering nipples into erection. "Ern, I'm gonna do her just like I done Honey Wilson. I'm aimin' to find out just how much punishment these fine young tits can take." Jack's leer was positively crocodilian. "And after I do," the sinister figure in black paused for effect, still grinning his saurian smile, "I'm gonna work on 'em some more!" Teresa shuddered visibly in reaction to Jack's horrifying threat. Please, Dios, she prayed, let her brothers come soon. "That's tellin' her, Jack!" Ernie exclaimed as held a hand to his throbbing left eye and temple. He took another long pull at the bottle of tequila he had grabbed. The ferret-faced little man watched intently as Teresa's hands moved over her luscious breasts, plucking at the tasty-looking tips. Her eyes were closed, as she tried to please her captors, in hopes that by pleasing them she might somehow escape, or at least minimize, her punishment. But pity did not rank highly among Black Jack Slocum's virtues. He took a long step backward before roaring, "You're taking too fucking long. Hurry the fuck up!" and gave her another caustic stripe across her silky thighflesh. The hulking figure in black watched, spellbound with lust, his massive cock throbbing almost painfully, as Teresa's dainty hands stroked her responsive brown nuggets, coaxing them little by little into the desired state of excitement. In less than a minute her nipples were two spikes as rich in color as mahogany -- and just about as hard. As far as Black Jack Slocum was concerned, they were just clamoring for attention. And Big Jack was just the man to see that they got it! "Very nice. Now lift yer arms back up! Higher!" Teresa fearfully obeyed, the rest having given her aching shoulders a bit of new life. But she was conscious of how that movement seemed to lift her proud breasts up as if in supplication to the atrocious belt. Teresa closed her eyes, dreading the coming, inescapable pain. "Did I tell you you could close yer eyes, gypsy gal? I don't want you to miss any of this! And if you lower yer hands again, or move away from that doorway...." CRAASHH! Jack shattered an empty beer bottle on the bar. Then he lifted the jagged remnant in his big hand and held it an inch from her lovely face, the dregs of the cerveza dripping down on to her heaving breasts. "I'm going to have to cut you up a little. Understand?" The terrified girl extended her arms high above her head again. Anything to avoid being disfigured like the grotesque little monster who sat at the nearby table. Despite her terror, though, Jack was superstitious about one thing -- every damn time he'd ever messed up a girl's face or done any permanent physical damage to a woman, he'd had bad luck. He'd blackened the eyes of a smart-mouthed blonde in Houston once; the next time he was with her, she slipped him a Mickey Finn, and he'd woken up in an alley two days later with no money and no horse. Another time he'd cut up the tits of a pretty quadroon whore in New Orleans. He'd used a straight razor to carve a small 'J' in her left breast and an 'S' in her right. Just for fun. No white man could get in trouble for that, he figured; not in Louisiana. But three days later he'd gotten arrested and thrown in jail for six months for something he didn't even do! And then there was the Mexican girl he'd been convicted of raping. To this day, Jack Slocum was sure that the only reason he'd been caught was cause he'd slapped her around pretty good. So, Jack figured he was jinxed if he did a woman any permanent injury. But pain -- visceral, agonizing pain -- that was another story. So, when Jack threatened to cut her with the broken beer bottle, he was bluffing. But Teresa had no way of knowing that. Jack bent down and tasted the trickle of warm beer on Teresa's left breast, enjoying the look of disgust on her face. And then his long, purplish tongue licked at the film of beer and perspiration that covered her other naked globe, his tongue lingering on and prodding each of her tasty rigid nipples. They were nice and stiff, now -- just right for abuse! Another deep rumbling roar of clouds crashing thundered through the heavens, followed moments later by an ear-splittingly electric crackle of lightning. The man with the belt looked outside to see the bright flashes in the sky, brilliant but ominous harbingers of the thunderbolts Black Jack Slocum was preparing to unleash on Teresa's heavenly orbs. "On yer toes!" Jack intoned menacingly. And, trembling, Teresa once again took up the proper position. "Ern, I remember readin' in a story one time about some cutie with 'pouting breasts'. Well, I'm gonna give Teresa's somethin' to pout about!" "Yeah, me too, Jackson," Ernie the Weasel seconded, even though he would have had a hard time reading the words on his own daddy's tombstone. Black Jack Slocum heard his partner snicker as he doubled up the belt in his giant paw and took a sinister step backward, so that Betsy would have plenty of time to pick up speed. The stiff, shiny leather felt good in his hand as he met Teresa's horror-stricken glance for a couple of seconds, relishing the fear in her beautiful dark eyes. He flexed the muscles in his right arm, to give Teresa an idea of the power he was about to unleash on her splendid breasts. Then, his tongue protruding intently from the corner of his mouth, the rangy gunslinger drew the awful belt back behind him and gave the full-breasted Latina a high hard one that landed with a resounding CRACCKK!! on the upper curves of her proud breasts, less than an inch above Teresa's distended nipple-buds. The pain was shattering. Teresa choked into her gag in soundless anguish, and tried desperately to keep her arms raised, as she had been warned to do. Jack let her focus on the fierce pain in her tender tits for about thirty seconds, and then shot the the fiendish black leather CRACCKKKing into the lower third of her succulent love-globes. "Mmmmmgggg!!" Teresa groaned, unable to swallow the pain silently again. God, what a great pair of tits she had, Jack thought, as he watched the two bands on her boobs darken. With her arms overhead Teresa looked for all the world like an exotic Aztec princess -- the position lifted her breasts up as if they were sweat-sheened sacrificial offerings to Jack's sacred belt. "Geesus, Jack," Ernie chuckled sadistically. "There's only one thing prettier 'n a pair 'a big, juicy tits." Puzzled, Jack gave his partner a quizzical look. "What's that?" "A pair 'a tits that's been marked up by some leather! Am I right or wrong?" "Haw! You got that right, Ern," Jack grinned. "I told you to stay on yer toes! Stretch, Teresa! Higher!" His exotic dark-haired captive was wildly shaking her head "No" from side to side now, hoping desperately that her abject pleas for mercy might be granted. "Sorry, honey. I ain't stoppin' now. I'm just getting warmed up!" And Jack, with a cruel leer, the muscles of his shoulders rippling, drew a bead on the taut brown nipples of his naked prey. His muscular arm drew the heavy belt back again, and then with a savage motion sent it rocketing through the air toward his twin targets. CRACCCKKKK!!! Bullseye!!! Jack's gleaming belt exploded across the exact centers of the Latina's majestic breasts, bathing them in a molten wave of pain. Teresa had never felt such agony -- her dark-nippled treasures were on fire! "Unnnnnnggghhhh!!" she groaned into her makeshift gag. She shook her head back and forth, letting her dark hair fly wildly around her shoulders as she tried to fight off the agonizing pain. "That's it, Jackson! Let 'er have it!" Ernie enthused. Jack gave her a minute or so to recover -- letting Teresa savor each blow to the fullest. And then, grinning like a Cheshire cat, he gave her another skin-scalder, high on her glorious thighs, no more than two inches below her velvety Venus mound. Teresa, forbidden even the tiny palliative of doubling up in pain, bit her lip, trying to swallow the hurt. The look on Black Jack Slocum's stubble-bearded face was grim, determined, and intense. He whistled the belt around his head twice and then brought it down to waist level before raking it across, Teresa's tender loins, flattening her mossy fringe of pubic hair. But then his steely-eyed gaze returned to her heaving bosom again. He wiped his mouth and stepped forward to cup her whip-warmed right breast in his huge hand, letting his long fingers play over one of the dark marks he had just inflicted. He pressed the silky-soft flesh harder, causing her to gasp with pain. "Does that hurt?" he asked softly. Teresa, sensing the possibility of sympathy, gave him a tearful look and nodded yes. Jack's dark eyes seemed to give her an understanding look for a moment or two, but then he squeezed even harder and said, in a venomous voice, "Bueno! I'm glad I haven't lost my touch!" and gave Ernie another of his wolfish grins. Ernie slapped his knee in delight at Jack's feeble attempt at irony. Meanwhile Jack was attending to some of the raven tresses that had fallen forward over Teresa's breasts during her agitated writhing. He gently brushed the stray hair back over her pretty shoulders. "We don't want anything standing between you and Black Betsy, do we, mija?" he smirked. The pain was causing Teresa to drool heavily now. A thin trail of liquid oozed from one corner of her pantie-gagged lips and trickled down on to the top of her right breast. Moments later another joined it, making her breast deliciously damp-looking. Jack took a step or two backward, and doubled the belt up in his hand, gripping and re-gripping it until it felt just right. He drew a bead on her drool-spattered boob, and he lashed it violently, the black leather spraying saliva as it bit into Teresa's shuddering right breast, crushing her stiff brown nipple. "Uuunnnnnggghhhh!!"Teresa screamed almost silently into her choking pantie-gag again for a few seconds, but she somehow managed to keep her arms aloft. Jack strolled back and forth in front of her for a minute or so, until she had partially regained her composure. He crossed in front of her, just as another ominous roll of thunder shook the cantina. Then, as if he had been taking instructions from an angry deity, he suddenly stopped and unleashed a powerful backhand blow that slammed into her left breast with terrible force. The poor girl shook her head sideways, begging her tormentor not to continue. As she did so, the pantie-gag fell out of her mouth. "Merced," she begged, in Spanish. "Yeah, we'll give you mercy, bitch, like you and yer greaser brothers gave me mercy!" Ernie was up and moving toward her, now. Whip in hand. No way he was going to let big Jack have all the fun...
Chapter VII The Weasel with the Whip "The old eye's feelin' a little better now, Jack -- Give me a shot at this slut!" Jack Slocum stepped back. On the best day of his ugly life Ernie had never looked too good. But between his horribly swollen face and the malevolent sneer on his lip, right now he looked like the personification of evil. Ernie squinted intently at the woman who was responsible for his agonizing headaches. She was rather tall, an inch or two taller taller than his 5' 5"; Ernie didn't like tall bitches -- never had. He didn't like the way they looked down on him. And nothing pleased him more than to cut a tall girl down to size, to reduce her to a kneeling, groveling slut who would promise him anything if only he'd stop the pain. "Tell you what, Teresita. I'm gonna leave the gag out, for a while, OK?" Teresa nodded gratefully. She hated the choking panty-gag, not least because it caused her to slobber like a child. She had felt utterly humiliated when Jack had ogled her drool-covered breasts with such obscene and obvious pleasure. Ernie interrupted her train of thought by snarling, "But you start makin' a lot of noise, and the gag goes back in." Ernie began by flicking the four strands of the whip against Teresa's right thigh. The pain of the whip was different from the pain of the belt -- the belt left a generalized pain over a wide patch of flesh; the slender-thonged whip produced a more intense pain, albeit one concentrated in smaller areas. Ernie backhanded her briskly across the other thigh, enjoying her spasmodic jerks of pain, taking satisfaction from the sensations of suffering that welled up in Teresa's beautiful dark eyes. Then, his own hideous face distorted with pain, he drew the whip further back and swept its fiery tails across the outside of one lovely thigh, and then he backhanded her across the other. "Aaaaaah!" Teresa gasped in pain. "Yer gonna wish you'd sucker-punched some other guy, you fucking bitch! Spread your feet further apart, dammit - and stand tall on those toes! How many times do we have to tell you!" When Teresa's golden-brown body was fully extended, and her sleek quadriceps muscles were strained to an eye-catching tautness, the ugly little man slashed at her beautiful legs again -- Left ! Right! -- the whip cracked loudly in the stillness of the Mexican night, each report drawing a muted moan of suffering from the striking young beauty. A hideous half-grin crossed the good side of Ernie's face as he swept the leather thongs back and forth Teresa's soft thigh-flesh two-four-six more times in lightning-like succession. As each crisp blow landed, Teresa gasped softly in pain, only just managing to keep her arms extended high over her head. Unlike his taller, more deliberate partner, Ernie the Weasel paused between lashes only long enough to savor her soft cries of suffering and to examine briefly the freshest streak in what had become a garish pattern of lurid lash-marks. "No mas," Teresa gasped faintly. Please..." Ernie, paused, sweating profusely. He noticed, not for the first time, that Teresa, in between grimaces of pain, was looking yearningly toward the ancient grandfather clock that stood against the far wall. "Hey, Jack. Our little Mexican cutie here keeps lookin' at the clock - like maybe she's expectin' someone." At these words, Teresa, not thinking, spat at the ugly little man in front of her, spraying saliva over his face. "Cobardes! My brothers weel keel you both, Yankee dogs! You will see!" In less than two heartbeats Teresa felt the vicious tongues of Ernie's whip bite into each of her swollen breasts. "Is that so?" Ernie smirked, before snapping the tails of the whip across the gentle curve of her mons. "Them greaser hermanos 'a yers ain't gonna keel nobody!" he snorted as he slashed at each of Teresa's glorious coppery tits again, aiming for, and finding, her dark, puffy nipples. "So don't think yer goin' home from the dance, just yet, mija!" "Aiiiiaa! Aaaghhhh!!" Teresa moaned as the whip scalded her succulent breasts. Even Ernie's dire warning to be still could not stifle her cries of pain. Ernie was interrupted briefly by another long, rolling thunderburst which began far off in the west and then seemed to roll toward them until it seemed to settle above the dusty crossroads of Piedras Negras, where it exploded with a deafening rumble. "Hoooo-eeeey," that was a good one!" Ernie mumbled before calmly removing a dingy, wadded-up red neckerchief from a pocket. "See this, Teresa? Look familiar?" When the Weasel had finished unrolling the bandanna unrolled it, Teresa got a good look at the big ring Ernie had concealed within it. Pepe's ring. Her brother's cheap, showy ring that he was so fond of. That he would never have parted with willingly. Ernie calmly used the dirty kerchief to wipe the spit from his face. "So you think your brothers are gonna 'keel' us, do you?" he repeated sarcastically, as he stuffed the foul piece of cloth roughly into her mouth. "Now why would they want to "keel" us? We're just a couple of friendly cowpokes. Ain't we, Jack?" "That's right, Ern," his sinister partner answered, as he stepped closer, fondling his doubled-up belt menacingly. "Hold 'em high, honey!" he barked at Teresa, and then he drilled the lower curves of Teresa's cafe-au-lait breasts with a venomous uppercut. "Ngggmmpfphhhh!!" Teresa whimpered pathetically into her gag Jack's cock pressed angrily against his denims, as hard as the monoliths in Monument Valley. But he was in no hurry. He enjoyed his own peculiar style of foreplay as much as the sex act itself. He'd given Honey Wilson a thorough working-over before raping her among the haybales in her daddy's barn. And when he'd finally taken her, while Ernie used a burning cigarillo on her quivering peaches-and-cream breasts, it had been with a soul-shattering climax. He was fixin' to give Teresa Martinez the full treatment, just like he'd done Honey Wilson. "That's right, Ern," Jack agreed with a dark scowl. "We're jus a coupla good ol' boys from east Texas. Wouldn't hurt a fly, would we?" "Not us," smirked the little man with the evil grin as he took careful aim and swung the biting strips of rawhide viciously into Teresa's rounded breasts. "Nnnggggghmppffhh ..." Teresa's agony was stifled by the neckerchief. "You shouldn't 'a spit on me, mija. No broad spits on Ernie Gibbs, especially no Mexican or half-breed or whatever the hell you are!" Ernie eased Pepe's big-stoned ring onto the ring finger of his right hand. The little man with the hideously distorted face brandished the ring just a few inches from her eyes. "I'm sure Pepe would have wanted you to have this, Teresa," Ernie smiled evilly. "Hold her for me, Jack, so that I can give it to her nice and proper-like." There was stark terror in Teresa's dark brown eyes now, as her hopes sank with the realization that her brothers would not be coming. She tried to dart away through the doorway that led into the kitchen, but the man in black was too quick and too strong. He caught up to her and slammed her painfully against a flimsy table, overturning small baskets of garlic and chilis, and spilling their contents. He quickly seized a wrist and twisted it behind her in a painful hammerlock, while he held the other firmly at her side. Ernie approached them, a demonic look in his one good eye. "Did you really think you was gonna spit on me and get away with it?" he snarled. Jack spun Teresa around so that her shapely buttocks were pressed against the edge of the table. Ernie clenched his right fist, turning the ring into a sharp, protruding weapon, and with his other hand grabbed a handful of the Latina's lustrous black hair for leverage. "We're gonna have to have us a little ring ceremony, Jack" Ernie grunted, as he lifted his fist chest-high, letting the light from a kerosene lamp play for a moment on the glittering, uneven crystals of the faux gemstone. Then, his rheumy eyes grim, Ernie the Weasel pressed the rough imitation stone against the firm but yielding flesh of Teresa's perfect left breast. And then he forced it inward, grinding the ring-stone deep into the tender tissue of her young breast. "UNNGGGGGHHHH!!" Teresa screamed through the neckerchief, dislodging it. The pain was excruciating. Teresa struggled desperately to escape from Slocum's grip, but Jack's hands were bands of steel on her arms. The veins in Ernie's forearms stood out as he worked the terrible ring deeper into Teresa's tender tit-flesh. "That's it, Ern," the big man growled as he held her fast. "That'll teach her to spit on a Texan! His clenched yellow teeth witness to the intensity of his wrath, Ernie pulled the ring away after a few seconds, pleased with the deep indentation it had left in her breast. And then the malicious little man pressed the sharp stone up against the soft inner curve of Teresa's naked right breast. "Ready, honey? We wouldn't want those fine titties not to match, now, would we?" Ernie giggled. The little man's good eye was bright with sadistic glee as he twisted his fist remorselessly, pressing the sharp relief of the stone violently into the coppery flesh of Teresa's other love-gourd. "Aiiigghhh!" Try though she might, Teresa was unable to suppress an agonized scream of pain. "Merced! Por favor, merced," she whimpered piteously. But Ernie wasn't listening -- he continued to drive his ring-fist viciously into her breast. After a few more seconds, Ernie pulled his hand back to study the nasty mark the ring had left. "There's a little remembrance from yer asshole brother, bitch! Don't worry; we didn't kill those two ugly bastards; we just put 'em out of commission for a while. So don't count on them comin' to 'keel' us anytime soon." Ernie turned, grinning, to his partner, "Enjoyin' our little Halloween party, Jack?" "Yeah, Ern. Geesus, who'd 'a ever thought we'd find a looker like this'n out here in the middle of Nowherelajara, May-hee-co. Baby, we're gonna have some fun with you tonight!" "Know what you mean, pard. But let's tie her up some; I don't want her scratchin' my other eye out with those pretty fingernails of hers. Bring her back out in the bar. I got so much rope in that bag we could tie her to the fuckin' Alamo if we wanted to," Ernie chuckled. "Good deal!" replied the man in black. While Ernie went to the bag, and grabbed a couple of lengths of light-weight white rope, Jack muscled their naked prisoner face down over one of the tables in the bar. "Hold her down, Ern, 'til I can rope this little filly right." Jack Slocum had spent a couple of years in rodeo and he was a master of ropework. In a few minutes, Teresa's arms were bound painfully high behind her back, her right hand touching her left elbow, and vice versa. Then Jack spun her around so that she faced them. Jack, tit-man that he was, was pleased by the way that positure forced her juicy caramel-colored melons into even greater prominence. The stripes from Black Betsy and the angry marks left by Pepe's ring only enhanced the appeal of the Latina's ripe-nippled globes as far as Black Jack Slocum was concerned. Slocum took a second length of rope and looped it around Teresa's chest, just above her boobs, pulled it tight across her back, and then wrapped it back around her chest just under her breasts, before anchoring the ends of the rope to her pinioned forearms. "Nice work, Jack!" Ernie said admiringly. The white rope above and below Teresa's brown-tipped jugs framed them most attractively. Then Jack took another length of hemp, this one coarser and heavier, and slipped it around Teresa's slim waist. "Suck your stomach in, bitch!" he snarled. And after Teresa took a breath that reduced the already slender circumference of her waist by an inch or so, Jack swiftly cinched the stratchy rope so tightly about her middle that she felt as if she'd never take a full breath again. "Nice, Jack. She's one pretty picture now, ain't she?" And so she was. Jack's constricting ropes emphasized and accentuated every lovely curve of Teresa's body. "Hey! I almost forgot. I brought our party-girl some flowers, Jack, as a token of our affection. And a necklace. Let me get it." Ernie rummaged through his big bag for a second. "Ah! Found it." And then the evil little man pulled out a peculiar necklace. The chain of the "necklace" was a strand of rawhide; but hanging from the rawhide were "the flowers" -- two small cylindrical cacti, each of which was four or five inches long and an inch or more in diameter, and bristling with razor sharp spines. Ernie had hammered a nail hole through the end of each cactus, and pulled the rawhide through the hole. Each cactus sported a single brilliant pink blossom. "Now, ain't that pretty, Teresa? Here let me put it on you." And Ernie looped the necklace around her pretty neck, tying it behind her. The two spiny cacti nestled in the alluring valley between her naked breasts. As long as she remained perfectly still, the dozens of spines were only a mild irritant, but Teresa could see that the least movement would allow the sharp little spines to prick her chest and the inner curves of her thrusting globes.
Chapter VIII Teresa's Dance of Pain "You know what, Jack?" the ferret-faced little man asked as he slapped his forehead in dismay. "I plumb forgot. You never got to see Teresa dance, did you?" "Nope, but with a body like that, I reckon she dances real nice." "Sheee-it! Nice ain't the word for it, Jack. I'll tell you what. Sit yer ass down on one 'a them chairs, partner. Teresa's gonna give you a free show." Ernie reached for his four-tailed whip again. "Ain't you, Teresa?" Teresa cast her soft brown eyes on each of her hard masters in turn, looking for a trace of empathy. She found none. The tall one, El Reptil, selected the same chair that Ernie the Weasel had sat in a few nights earlier. He drew it back from the circular table before plopping down and tilting backward so that the top of the chair tipped back against the wall behind him. The gunslinger gave Teresa a malevolent glare as he stretched a long, black-clad leg out and kicked the table a little further away. Out of the corner of her eye, Teresa could see that El Raton had slipped behind her, where he stood, gently shaking the short whip, his arm almost twitching with eagerness. "Dance for him, mija; get him as worked up as you got me that night." "But I can't... not like...." Ernie snarled and slashed her heart-shaped buttocks, leaving a livid mark on both plump bottom-ovals. "Aaaiiiii!!" "I said dance, goddamit; I ain't gonna tell ya again." Teresa, her arms bound behind her, began to move her feet to an unheard rhythm, swaying back and forth in front of Jack. She twisted, turned, and spun awkwardly around, trying to be careful to keep the fearful cacti from bouncing around too much. But her movements allowed Jack to study her lush nudity from every conceivable angle. "That's it sweetie, Jack sneered licentiously. "Now bend down and give that table yonder a little smooch." Blushing furiously, the dark-haired beauty turned her back on Black Jack. He had kicked the table about a yard away when he sat down. Teresa gave Ernie a pained expression. Bending forward from the waist as Jack had ordered would lift her bottom shamelessly high in the air. But there was nothing to be done. Trying to keep her legs together as best she could, Teresa lowered her lips to the edge of the oaken table, shamefully conscious of how that seemingly innocent movement caused the curves of her backside to tighten with an almost obscene wantonness. CRACCKKK!! "Aaagghhh!! The hateful thongs raked four trails of fire across her sumptuous buttocks. "Did I tell you to stop dancing? Keep that ass movin' til I tell you to stop girl." Sniffing back tears, Teresa continued to move her hips in slow sensuous circles. "Geesus, Jackson, get a load of that ass!" Ernie gloated gleefully as he wiped at his damp mouth with a filthy sleeve. He slid to one side so that his one good eye could dart furtively back and forth between Teresa's lush, cocoa-tipped breasts and the ebony thatch between her shapely thighs. "Ohhh, yeah! ...That's it! Churn those hips, honey ... Yeah... Keep yer kisser right against that tabletop. There you go! Now let's see you spread those pretty legs for Uncle Jack and Uncle Ernie." Trembling with shame and fear, Teresa slowly eased her legs apart. "Nice, huh, Jack? C'mon, sweetie, spread 'em some more! And keep them hips workin'!" Black Jack's dark and evil eyes devoured the shadowy groove that split Teresa's belt-streaked demi-ovals and the plump, inviting lips of her sex. Meanwhile Ernie used the handle of his whip to separate Teresa's sun-bronzed legs, slapping the whipstock sharply back and forth against the insides of her silky-soft thighs until Teresa's legs were almost a yard apart. Jack shifted his weight, causing the tilted front legs of his chair to crash down hard onto the cantina floor. He reached out and let his hairy hands explore the delicious curves of Teresa's out-thrust bottom as she continued her dance of degradation. Tears of humiliation streamed down her face now as Jack's masculine fingers fondled her pussy-petals for a few moments before sliding into her velvety soft inner sanctum. "She's a beauty, ain't she, Jackson? All right, mija, why don't you turn around and give Jack a nice up-close look at those tits!" Teresa straightened and slowly turned to face the sinister gunslinger, who had tipped his chair back against the wall again. "That's it, girlie. Geesus, they're somethin', ain't they, Jack!" Teresa felt Jack's gaze crawling like a repulsive caterpillar over the curves of her belt-ravaged breasts. "Nice, baby. Now give us a little shimmy." Ernie had swung around so that he stood off to her left. His crooked grin showed his tobacco-stained teeth as he drew the tails of the short whip lovingly through his left hand. Teresa, not knowing the word, looked at Ernie in puzzlement. Ernie made her pay a price for her ignorance, flicking the thongs of his whip across the smooth flesh of her midsection, catching her tummy about an inch above the waist-cinching rope. "'Shimmy,'" I said, "dammit! Get right up close to him, stick those juicy big chi-chis in his face and wiggle 'em good! Just like you did for me the other night!" Nervously, Teresa stepped in between Jack's widespread legs until she was only about two feet away. "That's better. Now get those shoulders movin'. Make those babies wobble." When Teresa, terrified by the spines of the bristling cacti that were suspended between her rounded breasts, wriggled half-heartedly, Ernie cursed and spat on the floor. "Look at me!" Ernie barked in his high-pitched voice. Teresa turned slightly to her left to face the horrible little man. "WHEN I..." Cracckk!! The thongs fell heavily against the outer curve of Teresa's left breast. "Ooooowwhhhh!!. No... ple..." "TELL YOU... Craccckk!! "Aaaaaahhhhh!" The one-eyed gnome had swept the four punishing tails between the white chest-ropes again, blistering her right breast. Teresa tried to turn away, but Jack had thrown a black-booted left leg over the table behind her, cutting off her retreat. "TO SHAKE..." Craacckk!!! the whip seared her sweat-sheened love-globes again. "YOUR TITS..." Cracckk!!! -- Ernie nailed her knockers again, punishing her taut brown nipples. "YOU SHAKE 'EM!! "I will.... I will.... "Aaaauuugghhhh!" CRACCKK !! another nipple-scorcher! "Ouwwww!' "GET ME?" "Si... Si... please, ... please... no mas.... I will do it." And a moment later Teresa was standing only inches from Big Jack Slocum, moving her body as sensually as she knew how. She gyrated slowly from side to side, trying to ignore the way his tongue slid lasciviously across his lips even as she tried to ignore the prick of the cactus needles against the inner slopes of her whip-tender breasts. "Not bad, mija, but now let's see a little grind action." Ernie had slid around behind her once again. Again, Teresa was at a loss to his meaning. Ernie stung her rounded butt-cheeks with a blistering backhand. "Grind, damn it. Up and down." When Teresa's first attempt struck him as half-hearted, Ernie flogged her golden buttocks again. "All the way, down, mija. Wriggle that pretty ass all the way down to the floor; and keep those tits moving, too!" "What'd I tell ya, Jack?" Ernie asked, as Teresa's voluptuous body gyrated in simulated abandon. Each stanza of her erotic performance began with her voluptuous breasts moving in seductive arcs a few inches from Jack's hungry eyes, the ever-so-slightly protruding bones of her ribcage pressing gently against the flesh of her marvelous midriff as her hips described slow sensuous circles. A beautiful sheen of perspiration settled over Teresa's body as she danced for her cruel captors. Tiny pearls of moisture formed on her dark nipples and then slowly blossomed into delicious droplets which clung amorously to her bobbling breast tips until the inexorable pull of gravity plucked them from their lovely perch. A miniature pool of moisture formed in her deep-notched navel and a glistening dew clung to the inviting tangle of pubic hair between her legs. Each time she sank downward, slowly, languorously, into the deep knee bends that Ernie had mandated, the pink lips of her girl-gash winked at Black Jack invitingly, even as her sleek, strong legs endured the muscular burn caused by each lusty descent. After five agonizing, thigh-straining seconds at the deepest point in her crouch, Ernie signaled her to rise again until her quivering coppery breasts were once more back to his eye-level. Ernie the Weasel forced Teresa to continue this wanton performance for several more minutes, striping the taut-muscled backs of her thighs and the sweet slopes of her buttocks each time he felt that she was giving less than her best effort. Finally, though, Jack gave him a meaningful glance as if to say -- dancing was a nice appetizer, but let's get to the main course! Ernie, as always, reacted quickly to Jack's look. "Now, Teresita, which of yer two gentleman callers would you like to entertain first?" Teresa, exhausted, sweat pouring down her naked body, her breasts red-pricked from the demonic cacti, her thighs aching from dozens of knee-bends, could only stare at him blankly. "It's hard to choose, I know. I guess we'll have to find a way of deciding, Jackson. Hey, I got an idea. Been wantin' to try this out." Ernie dug into his seemingly bottomless bag of tricks. This time he removed a six-foot-long braided leather whip. "How about a little target practice, Jack? First one to get her belly button with this baby gets first crack at her -- what do you say? First crack! Haw!" "Suits me, Ern." Jack had confidence in his skill with a whip, even one that he had rarely used before. "Call it to see who goes first." Jack called "Heads" as Ernie spun a coin into the air. The little man caught it, flipped it over on to the back of his hand. "Sorry, pard, it's a tail. I'll try first. But don't worry, I wouldn't be surprised if you get yerself some head and I get a whole lotta tail before the night's out!" Ernie guffawed again at his own joke. "Back 'er up against the bar, Jack." Jack kicked a couple of stools out of the way and then pushed Teresa roughly so that her pinioned arms pressed against the solid bar behind her. She could feel the cactus needles prick the edges of her soft breasts as she moved. "If'n I was you, I'd hold real still, gal," Ernie warned, as he uncoiled the long whip. The two thin strands of cowhide had been braided together meticulously. Swung full force, this baby would hurt like hell. "And serve the fucking bitch right!" Ernie thought, as another random jolt of pain flashed behind his left eye. Ernie backed up several few feet, drew the quirt back and tried to use his good eye to concentrate on his target, Teresa's tempting little navel. It wasn't easy though, with those two juicy Mexican melons pointing at him from between the white coils of rope. Not to mention the dark triangle of pubic hair that guarded the paradise between her legs. "Por favor...no more ... Aaaaiiiiiii!!" Ernie had cracked the braided whip sharply across Teresa's abdomen, missing his target by a few inches, but leaving a garish weal on Teresa's ribcage as she winced with pain. "Gimme that thing, Ernie. Let me show you how to swing that sonofabitch!" And using a three-quarter arm delivery, Jack CRACKKed the tip of the quirt viciously across Teresa's tummy, but he too missed, if only by an inch, leaving a red mark just to the left of her deep-cut navel. Teresa could only stand steadfastly still and take it; bound as she was she had no real hope of escape, and any evasive movement would only cause the cactus needles to nick the tender inner slopes of her breasts. Ernie drew the whip back, and then shot it forward, blistering her mid-section again with a resounding CRACCKK!!, as Teresa tried to fight off the pain. "Well, that was closer, at least," he muttered as he handed the whip back to Jack. "CRACCKK!! This time Jack's aim was true; the devilish end of the braided whip touched the very center of her sensitive belly button with its fiery kiss. "All right!!" the big man exulted, having won first crack at their prisoner. "Me first." The giant grabbed his captive by the hair. "Didn't you say there was a bedroom around her somewhere, Ern? We might as well get comfortable." "Yeah, back here, off the kitchen." Ernie grabbed the broken-off beer bottle from the table where Jack had set it, and held the jagged edge a millimeter from Teresa's left breast. "You're gonna keep it down, ain't you Teresa? So I don't have to gag you again?" And then just barely touching the brown shard of the bottle to the underside of her breast, "And so I won't have to cut you?" Teresa inhaled in order to evade the touch of Ernie's improvised weapon, and nodded, yes, she would keep still. Anything to avoid losing her beauty, her only possession in this world. "Good girl! Make sure you remember that! Now whyn't you lead us back to yer bood-warr - so's the three of us can get better acquainted." Teresa Martinez shivered as she turned toward the door that led toward the kitchen and her bedroom beyond. She shivered again when she looked over her shoulder and saw Ernie Gibbs going back to the table to retrieve the horrible four-thonged whip....
Chapter IX The Spines of the Cactus Slapping the stock of his whip impatiently against his scrawny thigh, Ernie led the way through the kitchen, past the familiar wood-stove which held a simmering cauldron of savory chile. He stepped past the sturdy-looking barrels of flour and corn meal, and the large sacks of beans and onions and sugar, that he remembered from his first visit. The table near the stove was laden, as before, with fresh tortillas, ripe tomatoes, peppers, garlic and wafer-thin sheets of meat that were destined to be carne asada. But Ernie wasn't hungry just then, at least not for food. He passed through the kitchen and into the darkness of the bedroom beyond. Jack grabbed the knapsack, and slung it over his shoulder and followed, admiring the marks Betsy had left on Teresa's spankable buttocks as he pushed their captive from behind. Once they had crossed the threshhold into the bedroom, Jack noticed that Teresa's good-sized bed had a heavy wrought iron headboard, and iron posts at each corner. The solid-looking bed dominated the left side of the room. Black Jack Slocum's lips broadened into a vulturesque smile -- they would need a sturdy bed for the kind of games he wanted to play with their hot-blooded prisoner. "Right there's where they cold-cocked me, Jack," Ernie said, gesturing, "See, you can even see the blood on the floor. Right there, in the doorway." Slocum nodded grimly in the darkness, but he really didn't give a shit about his partner's past misfortunes. He pulled Teresa's naked body back against his own until she could feel the lanky gunslinger's rapacious erection pressing against the hollow in the small of her back. One huge, hairy hand scouted the alluring place between her legs while the other slid up over the velvety flesh of her stomach to fondle her belt-warmed breasts. "Cold-cocked you, did they? Well, it's high time we hot-cocked this Mexican cutie!" "You got that right! But first, what do you say we throw a little light on our subject, eh, big fella?" Ernie asked. Jack continue to fondle Teresa as his ferret-faced partner tucked the whip into his belt and proceeded to light four large candles, each an inch or more in diameter. And then Ernie the Weasel made a tour of the little bedroom, placing each of the candles in a candle-holder -- two on the twin night tables on either side of the bed, and one each on a tiny desk and a dresser in the other two corners of the room. With a forceful shove, Jack sent their shapely young prisoner sprawling backwards onto the bed. Ernie got a brief look between her legs, then, in the candlelight. The delicate folds of pink flesh, the delicious little clitoris. The ferret-faced man licked his lips as he raped Teresa with his eyes, while Jack pulled off his pants. Teresa, with her arms bound helplessly behind her, could do little more than close her pretty legs and look up at Jack Slocum in dread as she discerned the huge shape pressing ardently against his long-johns. He spun around awkwardly, as he pulled at his pants; he was facing away from her when he shucked off his drawers. And then he turned toward her. Teresa swallowed hard. Befitting his gigantic stature, Jack's cock was a huge, semi-erect, purple-headed pole emerging from a dense forest of inky pubic hair. Below his gigantic organ hung a pair of plum-sized testicles. Teresa could not take her eyes off of his prodigious equipment -- Jack's swollen cojones seemed to fill their scrotal sac to bursting. Seeing where her dark eyes were fixed, Jack grinned salaciously as he kicked her sprawling legs apart. "How dya like the size of these 'huevos', Teresita?" Jack asked as he cupped his heavy scrotum. "These fuckin' balls are loaded with Texas man-juice, darlin'. Just for you." Jack continued to fondle himself while he admired Teresa's gorgeous nudity, his reptilian eyes riveted on her dark-fringed pussy lips. To Teresa's horror, Jack's knobby blue-veined monster-cock continued to swell and lengthen even more as his big hairy hand returned to his angry-looking organ. "Yeah, baby, we grow 'em big over on our side of the Rio Grande. And it's all yers, chiquita! Every fuckin' inch of it!" Although Ernie and Jack had doubled up on women before, the little man never ceased to be amazed at Black Jack's humongous prick -- it had to be nine or ten inches long. Jack Slocum grabbed the bronze-skinned beauty roughly and pulled her up until she was sitting on her haunches on the bed. Then he threw himself down on the bed beside her, lying full length across the bed, face up, his horse-cock a vertical pillar of rock-hard flesh. And then, almost effortlessly, he grabbed her around the waist and lifted her up, so that she was straddling his thighs facing away from him. The sudden movement caused the sharp spines of the cactus necklace to dig into her breasts. And then with a guttural, "Sit on it, bitch!" Jack grabbed her rounded hips and pulled her down onto his impaling organ. Teresita couldn't believe the size of his gargantuan-cock, as she slowly tried to take Jack's knobby penis into her girlish vagina . It was almost half again as large as Jorge's -- the former boyfriend who had had the biggest organ she had seen in her young life. But Jack was in no mood for slow. It had been weeks since he'd raped the shit out of Honey Wilson, and he was in the mood for some serious fucking. With his hands on her hips, he pressed Teresa's body more forcefully down on his thrusting organ. "Ah, fuck, but she's tight, Ern. Hot and tight!" Jack's face was a mask of lust. So far the girl's vagina had only accepted a few inches of his massive cock-staff. "OK, baby, start pumpin' sweet ass for me. Work it, honey! Up and down!" Ernie watched, amused, as Teresa tried to oblige, but she was impaled so firmly that it was hard for her to move. Only the four flickering candles in each corner of the room disturbed the darkness enough to allow him to see Jack's long body stretched across the bed, his legs dangling over the side. Teresa faced the side of the bed on which Ernie stood, and with her arms bound still behind her, the front of her delicious body was temptingly available to him. The scrawy gunman's good eye examined her body as thoroughly as if he'd been the head judge at a livestock show. "You'd best do like my pard says, girl," Ernie drawled as he eased the short-handled whip out of his belt. "C'mon, mija, bounce on my big Texas cock!" Jack snarled again. This time, when Teresa was still slow to obey, Ernie positioned himself about three feet away and slightly to her right and, using a brutally compact stroke, lashed the four strips of tough leather across her jutting lust-globes. "You heard the man! Move yer ass, slut! Now!" Teresa groaned in pain as the leather tails wrapped themselves around her sensitive breasts. She tried to use the springiness of the bed to help her slide up and down on Jack's giant prong. "Faster, bitch," he snarled. But every time she tried to move faster, she felt the sharp cactus needles digging into the inner curves of her close-set mounds. The first time she slowed down -- and it was only for a second, in a vain hope to relieve that agony -- Ernie slashed her left breast viciously, searing the outer edge of an aureole just where it began to blend into the cafe-au-lait breast flesh. "Aaaaaaghh," Teresa groaned in pain. All the while, of course, she felt herself being forced further and further down onto Jack's mighty prick, fearful that it might split her in two at any moment. "Faster! Harder" he growled. "Take it all, you Mexican whore! You know you love it!" Big Jack had one hand on the strand of rope that strangled Teresa's narrow waist. With his immense strength he was able to lift her up and then slam her back down on to his eager cock. Each time he did this Teresa squealed like a stuck pig, despite her promise to be quiet. And each time she squealed, Ernie attacked her proud breast-globes, the breasts so beautifully framed in the flickering candlelight by the tight white ropes, with the biting thongs of his whip. "Yeaaaahhh, senorita, ride my big fucking mustang!" Jack growled. "Up and down, mija, up and down!" Slocum had his Texas truncheon deep in her moist cunt now. He was fucking her like a man possessed, his hips lifting her 110 lbs effortlessly. Teresa's pussy was a hot, wet velvety canyon that squeezed and sucked at his cock despite the pain that coursed through her. Jack's forceful lunges had the cacti bouncing and swinging against her flesh now. "Ohhhhhh, move yer ass!" the big man moaned. "Milk it, baby! That's real good. Keep doin' it, just like that!" Teresa was a beatiful sight, as she rode Jack's cock, bucking like a woman possessed, as Jack's giant pole plundered her pussy, and the razor-sharp cactus needles perforating her chest. Her tawny thighs rippling, her young breasts bouncing. And yet -- the effect, thought Ernie, while impressive, was not quite what it might have been. Something was lacking. And then he realized what it was. "Honey, you shoulda kept them nipples hard. Now I'm gonna have'ta harden 'em up a bit! Not that I mind," he leered sadistically. The evil gnome in the wet stetson reached for Teresa's full breasts, being careful to avoid the sharp-spined cacti that bounced between them. He trapped her dark nipples between his tobacco-stained fingers and flicked and twirled them, gently at first and then more firmly, as Jack continued to lift her with each titanic lunge. Teresa was ashamed when her tasty nuggets betrayed her and gradually responded to Ernie's manhandling. As he worked her nipples between his fingers, they continued to stiffen and grow, until they were once again boldly pointing up at him. "Yeah, baby. That's how I like 'em. Brown and hard and long enough to bite!" He bent down and took one stiff crest into his mouth, teasing it with his lips and tongue. "And sweet. So goddam sweet!" he mumbled through clenched teeth, as he nursed voraciously at her teasingly turgid breast tips, moving his mouth back and forth between the two chewy morsels. Ernie was pleased with the results of his labors. When he was done, Teresa's nipples were firm, and puckering, sitting up on her saliva-damp breasts like fleshy spikes, demanding attention. Just then another agonizing wave of pain shot through Ernie's gruesome-looking left eye, causing him to grimace in agony. And renewing his determination to wreak vengeance on the cause of his suffering. As she rocked back and forth on Jack Slocum's plundering cock, Teresa sensed Ernie's intention -- his rheumy gray-green eye glowed with a fiendish intensity. She shook her head, "No, no!" but Ernie was not about to be dissuaded from his cruel purpose. He reached his relentless talons toward Teresa's mouthwatering breasts again. But this time it was not to stimulate the caramel-colored mounds of flesh but to hurt them. El Raton seized a nipple in each hand, trapping the teasing brown buds between thumb and forefinger. When another flash of pain coursed through his bashed-in skull, he tightened his tenacious grip on her swollen buds, pressing his jagged, ill-kept thumbnails deep into the sensitive flesh where the perky crests of her breasts rose from her slightly paler aureoles. Teresa renewed her struggles to free herself from the fiendishly tight ropes that framed her thrusting breasts so stunningly, even as the grinning gargoyle increased his pressure on the tender tips of her breasts until tears streamed from her brown eyes. "O, Dios, ayuda-me," Teresa prayed, as Ernie released her nipples only to cry out in pain when he gave her left breast a resounding slap, driving the tender mound into the cruel embrace of the cactus. "Who's a Yankee pig, now, you Mexican whore?" Ernie re-gripped her nipple-nuggets, and then slowly, inexorably, began twisting them outward. "How you doin', Jackson? C'mon, mija. Move it, bitch! Bounce on that cock! Faster, dammit!" Teresa shuddered in agony as Ernie crushed and mauled her breast tips; each shudder caused her to unwillingly tighten her vaginal grasp on Black Jack's huge phallus. Somehow he had wedged the entire length of his massive fuck-pole into her now. When Ernie was satisfied that her delectable nipples were as long and as hard they were going to get -- half-inch long brown rivets -- he told his hard-fucking partner, "Jack, you gotta see these tits -- I worked 'em up good!" In answer, Jack paused his deep thrusts for a moment. "Turn her around, then! Let me at those titties!" And between the two of them they made quick work in lifting their sexy bound victim, turning her so that she was now facing Jack, and forcing her down once again onto his immense impaling organ. "Ya done good, Ern!" Jack exclaimed, as he admired the desirable brown-studded hemispheres of golden flesh that were now well within reach of his ape-like arms. "Up and down, bitch!" Jack grunted as he groaned with pleasure. " Faster! Faster, Goddamit!! I wanna see those fuckin' tits bouncin' like tumbleweed in a cyclone!" But despite Teresa's best efforts, the stabbing pain of the twin cacti that hung from her bizarre necklace, kept her from increasing the speed of her movements. "Madre de Dios!" she lamented, as the spines dug into her breast flesh, "It hurts." But Black Jack Slocum was not too fucking interested in excuses. "You don't listen so good, do ya, Teresa?" And with a vicious snarl the hairy giant's huge hands moved to the outer curves of Teresa's pain-wracked Mexican love-gourds. And then, smiling sadistically, he began to press inward. Pushing her breasts together. Forcing them into the dangling cacti. At first his pressure was not too intense. But his relentless grip slowly tightened, until the punishing needles of the cacti punctured the inner slopes of her succulent breasts. "Aaaiiiiieeeeeaahhh!!" Teresa cried out, as her suffering continued to mount. In the glimmering light Ernie could see dots of scarlet begin to bead up on her mouthwatering jugs. Jack had Teresa's boobs in a death-grip now, and with his great strength he began to lift her torso up, using her full young breasts as punishing hand-holds, only to pull her back down onto his surging stallion staff. Ernie could only look on with envy at the incredible stamina required to lift the girl that way over and over again. No wonder the Chicana whores back in San Antone had called big Jack 'Cojones de Fierro' -- Balls of Iron. And each rise and fall seemed to drive more and more of the fierce cactus spines deeper and deeper into Teresa's tender breast-flesh. "That's it, sweetie. Oh, gees, that's good ...Shake them big chi-chis for Uncle Jack. Geesus, Ern, I'm gonna fuckin' explode!" Jack growled. "Yeah! Ride that big fucking bronco, you Mexican cock-rider! Yeah!!" he grunted, as he pulled Teresa down harder and harder onto his punishing cock. The sight of the Latina beauty's ebony-fringed sex swallowing the entire length of his throbbing fence-post over and over had loaded every chamber in his gun. From behind Ernie watched Teresa's sweetly rounded buttocks pumping up and down faster than a miner's well-handle at the end of a long drought, eyeing the deep, dark groove between them longingly, while Jack continued his ferocious assault. Finally, Jack exploded, his veiny manhood shooting the hot jets of sperm that had swollen his bulging ball-sac deep into Teresa's gaping pussy. And he fell back, delightedly spent, on the bed. And Teresa, grateful that her breasts had been spared, at least for the moment, the agonizing embrace of the cacti, rolled off of him, onto her side, utterly exhausted, her arms still tightly bound behind her. But her reprieve was to prove short-lived....
Chapter 10 The Dancer Degraded Another violent thunderclap exploded in the heavens; the long rolling rumble of thunder seemed to last a half a minute. Then two jagged flashes of lightning illumined the fearful night -- the pair of crackling thunderbolts seemed a fearful omen to Teresa. "Hey! The party ain't over just yet, senorita!" Ernie snarled as he reached for the lustrous black mane of the nude beauty. "In fact it's just beginnin'. It's time you showed uncle Ernie a little fuckin' affection, too, mija. Especially since I come back from the dead just to come a courtin'." Ernie got a good grip on the inky tresses of her tousled hair, and dragged her over to the edge of the bed, on her stomach, until she lay across the bed, with her head hanging over the edge. . The red speckles which the prickly plant which had left on the inner curves of Teresa's breasts had become damp, scarlet smears by the time Ernie dragged her head first to the edge of the bed. Ernie reached out and pressed a fingertip against one of the deeper pin pricks and when it came away red, he painted the pebbly aureole of her left breast crimson with his fingertip, enjoying the contrast between the deep ruby color of Teresa's blood and the dark chocolate of her nipple. Being careful not to brush against the cactus, he bent down and used the tip of his tongue to sponge the blood away, even as his lips closed around the sweetness of her firm brown nugget. He tugged it gently, testing its elasticity, and then reached around behind her to undo the terrible necklace, and put it aside on the little corner table. Amazingly, despite all of the rough treatment she had undergone, the white ropes that Jack had wound around Teresa's chest were still tight as a drum; they encircled her torso just above and just below her breasts squeezing her dark-nippled melons forward provocatively. "Ya know, mija" Ernie began, "after them big tips I laid on you last Saturday night, I was expecting some mighty good lovin'." Ernie chuckled, as he unbuttoned his fly. "You kept me waitin' a week longer'n I expected, honey. But now it's time you gave me what I got comin'!" Ernie lifted Teresa's head by the hair again, so she could get a good look, or as good a look as the shimmering candlelight would permit, at Ernie's crotch -- which was about as appetizing as his gruesome left eye. As Ernie dropped his pants, Teresa wrinkled her pretty nose in revulsion. Ernie wasn't the most fastidious hombre in the world about bathing under the best of circumstances, and tonight he was smelling particularly ripe. His unwashed cock and balls dangled inches from her face. If her situation hadn't been so dire, Teresa might have laughed at his "chilito", his half-erect undersized dick; it reminded her of Ernie himself -- it was skinny, ugly, and it, too, seemed to squint at her angrily out of one eye. Ernie released her head and fisted his scrawny but eager prick a few times with his left hand; out of the corner of her eye, Teresa could see that he was once again clutching the four-thonged whip in his right. "OK, mija, you know what to do," Ernie sneered. "Get busy! Andale!!" Even after being freed of Ernie's grasp, Teresa had difficulty pulling herself up on to her knees. She knelt there on the bed, her arms still bound behind her back, until Jack reached out and gave her a push between the shoulder blades that caused her face to tip forward into the mattress, leaving her body arched in a feline curve and her spirit nearly shattered on the rocks of fear and disgust. The dark hair around her beautiful face was as tempest-tossed as if she had been caught in the gale raging outside. "What the fuck you waitin' fer, Teresita?" Ernie yelled, as he cracked her sharply across the smooth skin of her back with his four-thonged whip. "Aaaaahh!! Que? What ... what do you want?" Teresa whimpered. "No comprende." Ernie went for her sweet bronze buns this time, aiming for the lovely arc formed by her butt-cleft, punishing her bottom with a ferocious overhand cut with the whip, as Teresa's body tensed deliciously in response to the stinging stroke. "Whaddya mean, 'No comprende'? You 'comprende' just fine, you Mexican slut!" The whip scored her bottom again, as Ernie slashed at her angrily. "Don't play dumb with me, chiquita! It's time for you to wrap those sweet lips of yers around some American cock, 'nstead of them greaser dicks yer used to suckin'!" "No," Teresa shook her head wildly. "Nunca... nunca," she lied. But indeed, she had almost always been able to cajole her other lovers into foregoing that most intimate of pleasures. She had been forced into relenting only once, on that occasion when Jorge, in a jealous rage, had made her kneel on the bed with her heart-shaped bottom high in the air, and given her a dozen or more stinging cuts with a tough leather strap. The proud beauty had taken no pleasure in pleasing her lover in that way; the idea of taking this disgusting gringo into her mouth was unthinkable. "Never, my ass!" Ernie sneered in disbelief. Impatiently, the ferret-faced villain turned toward his partner. Jack lay sprawled naked on the bed behind Teresa, his dark, reptilian eyes admiring the delicious curvature of her behind with predatory delight. "Looks like our gypsy gal needs a little east-Texas encouragement, Jackson! Just like that teasing slut, Honey Wilson. Hold her up for me, pard. I'm gonna learn our little senorita not to fuck with Ernie Gibbs!" The hairy outlaw nodded and sat up on the bed, and then reached over, and lifted Teresa by her hair. With her arms still bound behind her, her body was as helpless as a rag doll in the hands of a giant. Jack yanked her up so that she was kneeling not far from the edge of the bed facing a very pissed-off Ernie Gibbs. . Ernie didn't waste much time. Squinting evilly out of his good eye, he slashed the whip across Teresa's tawny abdomen, and then rifled two quick shots to her silky thighs, before cracking her sharply along the upper ridge of her dark, swirling pubic hair. "Aah!! Aghhh!! Arghhh!! Aieaahhh!!!" Teresa moaned in pain as each blow landed, while her beautiful brown eyes filled with fresh tears. Teresa looked up at Ernie fearfully. Behind him the flickering candles cast an eerie shadow on the wall; the macabre silhouette of the little man dwarfed the man himself. Ernie grinned his familiar crooked-toothed grin, laid the fearful whip on the bed, and held his dick up for her. "I reckon it's time for you to start suckin', mija!" Lashing Teresa's beautiful body had aroused him again -- his skinny prick was as hard as a rail on the Southern Pacific. Jack had been holding her upper body up by the hair, but now he pushed her forward and down so that her face was only an inch or two from Ernie's erect cock in all of its blue-veined ugliness. But once again the very notion repulsed her; she gave him a look of blistering contempt and hissed, "Chingate tu madre, cabron!" And regretted her rash outburst instantly. Jack ripped her body backwards again. "That ain't no way to talk about a fella's mammy, honeychile." "What'd she say, Jack? What'd the slut say?" Ernie spluttered. His rheumy eyes were sparkling with rage. "I reckon she told you to fuck your own mama, Ern." "She did, did she? That ain't no way to talk to a fella who's come back from the dead to see ya, sweetheart. Hold her up straight, Jack; looks like I'm gonna have'ta work on those pretty chichis some more. Teach this cunt some fuckin' manners." Slocum obliged him by pulling Teresa into an upright kneeling position again, her back arched painfully back, her nude breasts thrust provocatively forward. "Yeah, that's it, pal.! Hold her just like that! Yer gonna git it now, sister! Steady, now, Big Jack." Ernie reached for the stock of the four-tailed whip again. It felt good in his hand, as if it were an emblem of power. Ernie jerked at his throbbing cock a couple more times with his left hand as the fingers of his right opened and closed on the whip handle. He wasn't sure whether it was his stiff erection or the solidity of the whip-stock that made him feel more like a man. Despite the ghastly shadow, the flesh-and-blood Ernie Gibbs looked more than a little ridiculous, with his pants around his ankles. But there was nothing funny about the way in which he drew the short whip up and back and then gave Teresa a stinging lash across the upper curve of her left breast; "Yeah!" he exulted. Then the cocky little man lifted the whip up over his shoulder before snapping it down brutally onto the luscious fullness of Teresa's other breast. "Ooouuuuwwwwww!!" "How'd ya like that one?" Ernie smirked. "I'll teach you to call Ernie Fucking Gibbs a fucking motherfucker!!" Ernie swung the whip with a savagery remarkable even for him. CRAACKK!!! -- the tails of the terrible whip curled around the outer curve of Teresa's left breast, bathing the shapely globe in a sea of pain. "Aaaaiiieeaaaahhhh!" "Yeah, yell all you want, whore!" CRACCKKK!!, "AAAIIEEE!!!" he backhanded her this time, letting the four sharp tails of the whip etch a fiery kiss deep into the flesh of both of her plump breasts. "Ain't nobody gonna hear you in a downpour like this!" Teresa's loud cry of agony caused Jack to let go of her hair. She fell face down on the bed again, panting and sobbing. "Por favor ... please ..." "Lift her up again, Jackson. I ain't through with those big tits yet - not by a long shot!" A savage grin lit up Ernie's features. He loved the way the leather thongs bit deep into Teresa's soft breasts, and then seemed to cling to the swollen mounds for a magical instant before sliding slowly downward over her luscious curves leaving them blotched and red and quivering in the candlelight. For a moment or two Ernie's thoughts turned to the punishment he and Black Jack Slocum had meted out to Honey Wilson's creamy, pink-nippled breasts out in the sun-baked corral on that last morning at the Wilson ranch. Yep, they had worked those beauties over Texas-style, that was for damn sure. Him and Jack had taught Honey what happens to big-titted blonde snitches in a way she'd never forget. And now Professor Gibbs was going to teach this mutinous Mexican cutie a different but equally painful lesson. Slocum gave his diminutive partner a wink and once again pulled Teresa Martinez up to face his whip-wielding partner. Ernie eye-balled the dark stripes on Teresa's jutting breasts with a smirk of sadistic satisfaction as he wiped at the sweat that was streaming down his disfigured face. Then he took a quick step to his left, stroked his flint-hard dick a few more times, took the whip back over his shoulder, and flung it forward with a vengeance. The vicious side-armer landed squarely on the centers of Teresa's generous mounds, sending waves of searing pain through her sensitive brown nipples. "Aaaaughhhrrghh!! Madre de Dios... please ..." "How's that for a Bullseye, slut!" "Please... God ... I can't take any mo..." CRAACCCKK!! An overhander came sweeping down from above to rake the top of her pleasure-globes, leaving fresh striata of pain on the upper contours of the lovely Latina's throbbing breasts. "Oh, you'll take it, baby! You'll take it, 'til either my arm gets tired or my dick can't wait no more!" CRAACCCKKK!! Ernie drilled her man-pleasing nipple-nuggets again, crushing her tender breast-tips under the punishing thongs. Ernie strutted back and forth for a few seconds, his pants around his ankles, his cock hard with desire. He would have been a ludicrous sight had he not been brandishing the dreadful whip. And then he unloaded on her tits again, punishing Teresa's swollen lust-melons with yet another swift, sure, horizontal stroke. "Aauuuggghh!" Teresa groaned in anguish. She would have doubled over in pain, had not Jack, still holding a handful of her long black hair, quickly jerked her upright again, just in time for Ernie to give her yet another ferocious breast-splitter across her naked knockers, leaving a mark on their soft lower curves. "Aaaaaaaaagghhh! Madre de Dios," the pathetic brown-skinned beauty moaned again, but she had hardly closed her lips when the terrible thonged whip visited the ever-so-tender area at the juncture of her thighs, eliciting another high-pitched scream. This scream, though, like all of the others, was drowned in the thunderous downpour that was bombarding the roof of the cantina. The ghastly shadow on the wall moved twice more as Ernie slashed her lovely naked thighs once and then again. And then the fearful shadow paused as the evil little man stroked his pulsing cock to an even fuller erection. God, he was hot! His balls were heavy with lust as he turned slightly away from his beautiful victim only to lash out with a vicious backhand that crashed into Teresa's delectable breasts with teeth-rattling force. "Aaaaaauuhh!" Teresa cried out in agony, her body a sea of pain. And that one broke her, at least for the moment. "No mas... For the love of God, no mas." Jack's powerful hand moved to the back of her neck and pressed her down, down until her torso was face-down flat on the bed once again. And then he lifted her head up, so that her mouth was about two inches from Ernie's aroused penis. "OK, baby, use that pretty tongue, and clean me off. Oooh, that's right! Right down to the base! Lick it! Lick it like it was a big ol' lollipop. And act like you like it, or you're gonna get a few more across those juicy knockers!" Teresa, inexperienced in the art of providing oral pleasure, but desperate for a reprieve from the seemingly unending pain, swallowed her dignity and complied with his instructions, running her pretty pink tongue up and down the length of her tormentor's manhood. "Oooohhh, yeahhh! Now' yer talkin'! C'mon baby, polish that cock! Get it nice and wet. Worship it, mija. Yeah!!!" Ernie's scrawny body was shaking with lust. "Hey, Jack. I bet her ass is lookin' pretty good, too about now, ain't it? Ernie winked. "Geeeeeeessssusss! Lick it, baby. Make it nice and slippery." When his prick was dripping with Teresa's saliva, Ernie lifted her head up and jabbed his erection into Teresa's left breast. "Yeah, that feels good baby," he muttered as he slid his slimy cockstaff around her breast twice and then pressed its tip firmly against the most livid of the marks on her breast, as Teresa shuddered in pain. "I reckon I warmed 'em up good, didn't I, mija?" Ernie grunted as he fondled Teresa's breasts with his penis. "Oh, shit, Jackson, she's got some tits, don't she!" " Yeaahhh... that was nice, baby," Ernie growled as he pulled away slightly. "Time to get busy on those hairy fuckin' balls, baby. Niiiiice. Take those cojones in yer mouth and suck the shit out of 'em! Yeah..." "What did I tell you, Jack? She's a natural. A born cock-sucker -- they all are." Jack Slocum, meanwhile, had been running his big hairy hands all over Theresa's bottom as he appraised it with an expert eye, like a cowboy checking out a horse he would need for a long, hard ride, occasionally giving her ass a jolting smack with the palm of his hand. "Teach her right, Ernesto, teach her right!" "Oh, fuck, that's good! Kiss it again, now, baby. Up and down - that's it ... All over. Use those pretty lips. Now the tip. Good... a little more tongue. Nice... Take it in yer mouth now. Tease it, baby. Use those lips..... Oohhhh shit, that's good... Move your hand up and down on it real slow, while you suck...Mmmm.... Go down on it now. That's it... more, mija... Swallow that dick... Yeahh... All the way down, dammit! ... That's better... Now suck it... Nice and slow." But despite his admonitions, it was only a few more seconds before the intensely pleasurable sensation of Teresa's mouth on his hyper-sensitive cock caused Ernie to come. He soon spasmed violently, emitting an animal-like growl as he shot spurt after spurt of semen into the warm cavern of Teresa's unwilling mouth.
Chapter XI Liquid Fire "Damn it! I told you to take it slow," Ernie told Teresa, who was doing her best not to retch after swallowing Ernie's weasel-seed. Ernie Gibbs' sexual stamina, which was only a tiny fraction of Jack's, was always a sore point. With his typical grace, Ernie could always be replied on to blame the woman in question for his shortcomings. "You heard me, Jack, I told the slut to slow down." Jack, who'd heard it all before, had been poking around the room while he waited for Ernie to finish. He picked up a small card from the nightstand, noticing that it was addressed to Teresa and bore the graceful handwriting of a young girl. The final words were "Feliz cumpleanos!" and signed 'Maria'. Jack had lived in Texas most of his life -- long enough to know what those Spanish words meant. "Hey, Ern! Guess what? Our little Teresa, here, is a birthday girl. Ain't you?" When Teresa was slow in answering, Ernie, again armed with his whip, lashed her across her rounded buttocks. "The man's talkin' to you, Teresa! When's yer goddam birthday?" "Tomorrow... Domingo." "Sunday? Hell, it's past midnight already. Well Happy Fucking Birthday, Teresa. How old are you anyway?" "Solamente diez y ocho... only eighteen," Teresa told him, in a voice that was half sob, half whisper. "Please... can you just go, now. Por favor... I will tell no one." "Eighteen? Is that all? Shit, Jack, we wuz whippin' us some jailbait ass until about an hour ago." He brought the thongs down on Teresa's rounded bottom-cheeks again. "Some fine jailbait ass!" Just then another bolt of pain shot through the left side of Ernie's face, causing him to grimace in agony. "Sorry, honey, we wouldn't want you to have to celebrate yer birthday alone, would we Jack?" "That's right, Ern -- tell you what." The brooding, vulturesque giant eyed Teresa's nude body while he thought for a moment. "Whaddya say we tie our hot-blooded dancin' girl up in a nice little birthday package. Go out in the bar and bring me one of them stools, Ern. I got me an idea. Oh, and bring me another bottle of that tequila too -- the one that's 160 proof." Ernie nodded and walked out of the room, naked as a jaybird. He stopped to sample the chili that was still on top of the big black stove. It was hot and spicy -- just like he liked it. He tried another spoonful, nodded approvingly and continued on into the bar. He watched the rain continue to come down in sheets outside for a moment. 'That'll keep the greasers home in there beds," he mused to himself. "And give me and Black Jack that much more time with our sweet senorita.' Then, anxious to see what Slocum was up to, he grabbed a tequila bottle with one hand and a wooden bar stool in the other, and headed back toward the bedroom. "Well, whaddya think?" Jack asked. Jack had used his few minutes alone with Teresa productively. In the glimmering candlelight Ernie could see that she was now lying face down, lengthwise, in the middle of the bed, her arms still bound behind her. But now each of her pretty ankles was securely lashed to the sturdy posts at the foot of the bed. Ernie walked around to stand directly behind her, admiring Jack's ropework. Teresa's legs were spread-eagled as far apart as they would go, her legs forming a tempting inverted V, her pussy-lips, still wet with Jack's cum, naked and vulnerable. The muscles of her coppery legs were taut with the tension of the painful bondage, and her whippable buttock-globes were tight with fearful anticipation. Ernie, standing in the doorway looking for all the world like an ugly one-eyed monkey who'd lost a fur fight, whistled in admiration. "Yep, that sure is one purty birthday package, Jack," and proffered the bottle of tequila. Jack took it, twisted off the cap and took a sip, making a face. "Damn, that shit burns goin' down," he grumbled. "But it'll make a good disinfectant. When I flipped her over, I saw that them cactuses had cut up her knockers pretty good. We wouldn't want those big fuckin' chi-chis to get all infected now, would we?" Jack asked with an evil grin. Jack pointed to the far side of the bed. "Ern, you stand over there. When I lift her up, rub some of this rot-gut into her tits. There's enough alcohol in this shit to kill the biggest fucking germ in Me-ji-co. OK, you ready? Here goes!" Jack got a good grip on Teresa's black mane, and jerked her head up hard. With her ankles lashed to the bedposts, and her legs and hips flat on the bed, Jack lifted her head and shoulders back cruelly. Teresa groaned in misery, fearful that if Jack pulled any harder, her spine might snap like a late-summer twig. Meanwhile Ernie splashed some of the clear liquor into one hand and rubbed the strong tequila into Teresa's cactus-gouged right breast. Teresa's ripe, pendulous breasts were still beautifully framed by the two bands of white rope that circled her chest just above and below them. "Aiiiiiieee!!" Teresa yelped, as soon as the alcohol touched her body. The tequila seemed to seek and find every pore, every crack in her tawny breast-flesh. Teresa wriggled in misery as the liquid fire burned into the surface of breasts that had been ravaged by leather and lash, that had been pierced by razor-sharp cacti, and that had been gouged by the stone on Pepe's ring. "No? no more ? please," Teresa moaned as she tossed her dark mane from side to side like a dog coming in out of the rain. "From the way she's wriggling, looks like they oughta call that stuff "Old Titburner, Jack," Ernie smirked as he offered the bottle to his partner. Jack hoisted the bottle to his lips once again and took a slug. Even Jack Slocum, who'd drunk enough whiskey in his life to irrigate a cotton field, contorted his face as the fiery alcohol went down. "Geesus, Ern. That stuff's stronger than white lightnin'," Jack grimaced as he handled the slender-necked bottle back to his sidekick. Ernie gleefully poured another handful of tequila into his cupped right hand, spilling a fair amount on the bed as he did so, and then tilted his hand so that the alcohol trickled down onto the upper curve of Teresa's breast, bathing the succulent melon in a second fiery torrent. Though bound hand and foot, Teresa' upper body vibrated with a series of agonized shudders as Ernie massaged the tequila into the writhing beauty's tortured breast. Then he tilted the bottle again and let a couple of drops fall directly onto Teresa's sensitive nipple. It took a second or two for the liquor to do its evil work, but when it did, Teresa's upper body reacted as if Ernie had held a still-warm match-tip to her breast. When his ferret-faced partner had finished with Teresa's right breast, Jack let go of her hair, allowing the beleaguered Latina beauty to fall face-first into the soft mattress. The two men then switched positions, with Ernie going to the other side of the bed. Once again Jack lifted Teresa's head and shoulders while Ernie attended to her other breast, liberally sloshing the tequila onto the tender flesh and then working it deeper and deeper into her golden-brown skin. As the alcohol seeped into her tenderized flesh, Teresa felt as if her beautiful young breasts were being bathed in acid. When both of Teresa's young breasts were slick with strong tequila, Jack let go of her hair, letting her face crash into the mattress once again. "Damn, that tequila burns MY hands and they ain't hardly cut at all," Ernie groused. "Let me go rinse 'em off in that basin out there." Ernie looked down to see Teresa's upper body twitching in agony as she tried to rub her boobs into the mattress seeking relief from her torment. But Ernie had intentionally not mopped up the puddles of the liquor he had spilled, and Teresa's agitated movements only served to immerse her sensitive breasts in those fresh pools of liquified fire, to Jack and Ernie's intense amusement.
Chapter XII A Birthday Spanking After rinsing his hands, Ernie returned to the bedroom, where Jack was patiently waiting, enjoying Teresa's frantic, face-down writhing on the bed. "What's with the bar stool, Jack," Ernie asked. "Well, partner, I thought we'd give our birthday girl, here, a friendly birthday spanking. But the way I figger it -- if you're gonna give a pretty girl a spanking, she oughta have her ass high in the air. Like this." Black Jack grabbed Teresa by the hair again. But this time he also put a hand under her midsection, and lifted her upward to a kneeling position on the bed. Jack's thick middle finger found its way between her legs and dug into her for a moment, while Teresa squirmed helplessly. When at length he removed his questing finger, he said, "Now lay that bar stool crosswise on the bed. Right in front of her, up against them pretty legs. That's right." "I'm gonna untie yer arms, now Teresita." The kneeling dark-haired beauty breathed a deep sigh of relief; her arms and shoulders ached from their long captivity. "But only for about thirty seconds," Jack chortled, as Ernie slapped his knee at the cruel jest. In a minute or so Jack had undone the heavy bonds that imprisoned her arms, and unwound the revolutions the ropes had made on her chest. The coarse ropes had left deep impressions just above her wrists, around her upper arms, and across the tawny skin of her back and chest. Teresa had about ten seconds of relative freedom before the hard-eyed gunman pushed her body forward over the stool that lay sideways on the bed. Then Jack took a length of rope and wrapped it around Teresa's right wrist several times, before lashing it securely to the front bedpost, down at mattress level. Jack paused once or twice to jerk all the slack out of the rope, making sure that Teresa was trussed up tighter than a calf at a west Texas rodeo. When he finally did secure the rope to the bedpost, the well-toned muscles of her right arm and shoulder were stretched to their limits. It took the snake-eyed outlaw only another minute or two to imprison her left arm in similar fashion. When he was done, Teresa's wrists and ankles were securely lashed to the four bedposts. The tremulous light from the candles in the four corners of the room highlighted the fact that every muscle in her arms and legs was stretched bowstring-taut. Her thighs and midsection were angled up over the over-turned stool, thrusting her delightfully curved derriere high into the air. Teresa's dark-tufted pubic mound rubbed painfully against the edge of the stool, and her opulent, dark-tipped love-globes hung from her chest, proud and full and defenseless. Worst of all, Teresa thought, Ernie had lifted his dreadful bag of tricks up onto the bed, and he was rummaging through it yet again. "Well, Jack, I just don't think an ord'nary spanking is good enough for our Teresa. Especially since it's her eighteenth birthday. Seems to me that calls for somethin' special. How about we welcome her to 'adultery' -- get it, Jack -- adultery! Haw!! -- with these. Made 'em myself." And Ernie withdrew two gleaming lengths of polished wood -- perhaps thirty inches long, each tapering slightly to the diameter of his own pinky finger. Leather grips covered the lower six inches or so of one end of each home-made cane. "Here, Jack, try it. You'll never find a purtier target." Jack was partial to "Black Betsy", but as he swished the cane through the air once or twice, he was impressed. While Ernie fondled the yielding flesh of Teresa's shamefully upthrust bottom-globes with one hand and pinched an alcohol-damp nipple with the other, Slocum slapped the cane down fiercely on to the mattress a few inches from Teresa's left ear. The cane made a satisfying pop! when it made impact with the mattress. Teresa's heart sank -- the whoosh of the cane as it whistled past her ear, and the resounding pop it had made when it hit the mattress, were ample evidence of the speed with which it cut through the air. "Por favor," she moaned miserably, as she squirmed in her bondage. "Please ? go ? I will say nothing to anyone." "But mija," Ernie smirked, "we can't leave without celebratin' yer birthday right and proper, can we Jack?" "I reckon that would be right ungentlemanly, of us, Ern. How many you think we should give her? Eighteen?" Teresa gasped through the lump that had formed in her throat. She could not bear the thought of receiving eighteen cane-strokes across her taut, tender buttocks. Ernie bent down so that his damaged eye was only inches from Teresa's face. "Aw, eighteen each, I think. Let's go all out -- a girl only has one eighteenth birthday. Let's make it an occasion she'll never forget." Ernie cupped her chin, and forced her to look him in the eyes, the one ghastly and the other brimming with ferocity. "Just like I ain't forgot last Saturday night!" Ernie straightened up and swooshed the cane through the air viciously once as Teresa shuddered in terror. Ernie could see the muscles in her thighs and buttocks quivering. He hadn't even touched her yet. But he was fixin' to give that sweet Mexican ass something to quiver about soon enough. "OK, Teresa -- here's the deal. We're gonna play us another game. The Birthday Game. And of course me 'n' Jack hope you do better at this one than yer sorry ass showing at 'Reach for the Sky.' To make sure we don't give you too many birthday spanks, you're gonna keep count for us. After Jack hits you the first time, I want you to say "Uno. Gracias, Senor Jack. Uno mas, por favor". Teresa listened to his words with barely-disguised dread, her tequila-drenched breasts still tingling. Was there no end to their cruelty? "But when I hit you the first time," Ernie went on, pleased with the cruel game he had thought up, "I want you to say 'One. Thank you, Master Ernie. Another, please.' And so on. Got it? Think you can remember all that?" Teresa hesitated before answering. Bad choice. She heard a whistling sound followed a split second later by a loud THWICCKK as Ernie's cane buried itself in her thigh-flesh. "Aagghh!! she gasped. "When I ask you a question, you answer, understand!" growled Ernie menacingly. "And don't make too much noise or I'll gag you again, and we'll give you twice as many. Got it?" Teresa, nearly exhausted, was not at all sure that she had "gotten it". But she nodded her head, the only part of her body that she could move. "That's better. And don't fuck it up, Teresa. Cause every time you mess up the count, or get us mixed up, or use the wrong lingo, you're gonna earn (hee-hee, "Ern", get it, Jack!) a penalty stroke. Or the way me and Jack look at it -- a bonus stroke. You got it?" Teresa nodded hurriedly this time. "Jack, my good man, you may have the honors," Ernie bowed clumsily, and took a position on Teresita's right. Jack, still bare-chested, but wearing his dark pants again, towered over their trussed up victim from his position on her left. In the shimmering candlelight, Teresa could see the eerie and ominous shadows of the two men on the wall above the sturdy iron headboard. And then she saw the silhouette of the diabolical cane slide up the wall at moderate speed and then disappear in a blinding blur of motion. THWICKK!! "Aaah!" Teresa yelped in pain. Jack had taken careful aim and whipped the meaty flesh of her left calf, about a third of the way up her leg. "Well?" Ernie asked. Choking back the pain and remembering the lines she had been instructed to recite, Teresa mumbled, "Uno. Gracias, Senor Jack. Uno mas, por favor". "Good. He'll give you 'uno mas' in a minute. But now it's my turn." And the naked, ferret-faced little man stroked his depleted cock a few times and slashed her sharply with the cane, high up on her bronzed right thigh. "Aaah!! One. Thank you, Master Ernie. Another, please?" Then Black Jack THWICCKED her sharply across her left calf again, this time higher up. Teresa croaked out a pathetic "Ooouuww!! Dos. Gracias, Senor Jack. Uno mas, por favor?" Ernie countered by cracking her across her spread-eagled right thigh, leaving yet another thin line on her lovely cafe-au-lait skin. " Aaiagh!!" Teresa moaned as her smooth, bare thighs vibrated gently under the force of the blow. "Thank you, Master Ernie. Another, please?" Ernie looked down, and noticed that Teresa had closed her eyes in anticipation of the next stinging blow. "C'mon, Jackson! Warm that ass up nice! Cause I got her birthday present right here," he added, grabbing his crotch. Winking slyly at his partner, Ernie the Weasel held up his hand just as Jack was about to deliver a stinging blow to Teresa's upper thigh. But it was Ernie himself who whipped his cane down sharply across the very summits of Teresa's deliciously rounded buttocks. THWICCKK!! "Aagghh!" gasped Teresa, and then, thinking that they were still alternating blows, she choked out the necessary words, "Tres?. Dios, ayuda me ? Gracias, Senor Jack. Uno mas, por favor". "Wrong! That was me, sweetie. That's one bonus stroke for me, Jack. You'd better keep them brown eyes open, girl!" Jack slashed his cane across the tender flesh of Teresa's lower thigh, leaving a fourth ruddy stripe across her left leg and eliciting another soft cry of anguish. Teresa had barely finished mouthing her mantra, when Ernie ripped into the meaty curves of her tempting buttocks yet again, laying this stroke just below the prior one. What an ass she had! Ernie thought. Most girls' butts were either too bony, or too fat. But Teresa's was a springy, firm-fleshed delight, a sadist's dream come true. Not too hard, not too soft. It was damn near fuckin' perfect, was what it was! With every stinging stroke, the last six or eight inches of his cane seemed to work its wicked way into Teresa's yielding bottom-flesh like a warm spoon sinking into a scoop of melting ice cream. "Let 'er have it Big Jack! I wanna see her ass smokin' like a Mexican barbecue!" Jack bared his teeth in a wolfish grin and moved directly behind their beautiful bound prisoner. He slid the last few inches of the rod along the dark groove between Teresa's inviting buttocks as she ground her hips futilely against the barstool. The grim-faced desperado scratched at the rough stubble on his chin while he ground the rounded end of the cane against Teresa's winking bottomhole for a moment and then slid the slender shaft of the cane down her sensual lust-crease and toyed with her fleshy labia for a few seconds. "Yeah, mija, we're gonna have us some fun tonight!" he muttered gruffly as he took up his position on the side of the bed once again. A moment later Teresa heard the brief whistle of the cane a moment before it etched another line of fire across her burning backside. "Aaaieahhh!" she cried out. Jack's had been the worst cut so far. She was barely able to gasp out the mandatory, "Gracias, Senor Jack." Ernie eyed Teresa's spread-eagled body hungrily for a moment and then followed with a fierce stroke that seared the base of her buttcheeks, sending visible spasms of pain rippling through the body of his bound victim. Belts and whips had their good points, but Ernie reckoned that there was nothin' quite like the feel of a cane biting into helpless female flesh. Belts and whips struck, and struck hard, but the 'feel' of the impact was somehow more transitory. A good cane-stroke sent satisfying waves of power up through his hand and arm all the way to his shoulder. The sense of mastery was visceral. Was there any better way for a man to rejuvenate his spent lust than this, Ernie wondered, as he and Jack continued to take turns etching scalding lines of pain into Teresa's buttocks and thighs. His hairy balls were tingling again, and his cock was coming back to life with a vengeance. Jack was taking more time in between cane-strokes now, teasing Teresa with the whip for a while before slashing it into her shapely bottom or across a tautly-stretched thigh. Ernie used these longer intervals to lean against the edge of the bed and grind one of Teresa's tequila-slick nipples between his thumb and forefinger with one hand, while he stroked his reviving erection with the other. Ernie was an ass-man and when it was his turn to wield the cane he pretty much concentrated on the alluring curves of Teresa's sweat-soaked buttocks, THWICCKKing her tempting bottom-ovals savagely, sometimes laying the last six eight inches of the rod across one cheek or the other, sometimes striping both wiggling bottom-globes with the length of the cane. With each succeeding stroke he added another dark line to the angry pattern of horizontal marks he had painted on her naked behind, with each blow eliciting a tortured moan from their spread-eagled prisoner. Halfway through the count, the relentless duo switched positions, partly to have access to the other side of Teresa's body, and partly to confuse her. Try as she might, as the caning wore on and her stamina flagged, Teresa began to make mistakes in the count, and twice she got confused and used Spanish to Ernie or English to Jack. By the time they had reached fifteen strokes each, she had earned five penalty strokes, two from Ernie and three from Jack, who kept score by making a notch in a night-table with his Bowie knife each time she slipped up. Jack's third to last stroke was yet another punishing slash across the ripe curves of her upthrust bottom. "Ooooooohhh," Teresa moaned. Her tawny buttocks were en fuego from the fierce strokes of the cane. "Diez y seis. Gracias, Senor Jack. Uno mas, por favor?" Ernie moved around to stand directly behind her. Jack had sure had a good idea about sticking that stool under her, Ernie thought. Teresa's body was curved like a golden rainbow, her calves and thighs taut, with her elevated bottom a perfect target at the very apex of the lovely arch. Ernie rested the cane atop Teresa's plump left butt-cheek, bisecting it vertically. A dozen angry horizontal weals darkened the smooth brown skin. Ernie gently tapped the cane across them, letting Teresa feel the hard wood on those fresh lacerations. And then Ernie, gripping the cane a little more firmly, lifted it high and brought it down violently on her superbly rounded bottom, leaving a livid dark line perpendicular to each of the others. Teresa let out a full-throated cry of agony at that one. "Auuurgghh! O, Dios. No mas, por favor. No mas!" "Now didn't we ask you nicely to keep it down? You'll get a penalty stroke for that one, Teresita, and you'll get another for not counting. You markin' 'em down, Jack? How many's that make -- seven? And I'm up 4-3, right?" "Yup," the big man answered, as he used his knife to etch a seventh notch into the night table. And moments later the rangy gunslinger ripped into Teresa's dancer's thighs yet again, a few inches below the base of the sweet groove that separated her compact buttcheeks. Teresa convulsed in pain, but managed to squeak out, "Diez y siete. Gracias, Senor Jack. Uno mas, por favor?" "Damned straight you can have another one, mija," Ernie grinned and took a step to his right. He let the cane rest on Teresa's right bottom-cheek this time, again at right angles to the earlier strokes. And again, he tapped her derriere, several times, just to let her know that another blow, every bit as punishing as the last one, was in the offing. Tap...tap...tap...tap...tap. Ernie let the suspense build. Teresa was mewing in terror, and her coppery ass-cheeks were aquiver with apprehension. Tap...tap...tap...tap... And then the terrible cane went up and then came slashing down to explode on her resilient right bottom oval, leaving a searing vertical gash of pain across the lattice of earlier marks. "Aaauuugghh!," the poor Latina cried out, but less loudly this time. And somehow she managed to find the words, "Seventeen. Thank you, Master Ernie. Another, please?" "You betcha you can have another! Go ahead, Jack." Ernie winked at his partner. But it was Ernie who slashed her brutally between her wide-spread legs, the cane savaging her most sensitive flesh. "Aaaagghh!!" Teresa writhed in agony, to the extent she could writhe, before gasping out, "Diez y ocho. Gracias, Senor Jack. Uno mas, por favor?" "Wrong, again, estupida. That was me. That makes eight penalties." Ernie was stroking his throbbing cock even harder now. Give her one last good one, Jack, before I fuck this Mexican slut. I can't wait no more." Jack didn't disappoint him. He buried the cane deep into the back of Teresa's right thigh, drawing yet another anguished moan from the girl on the bed, and then tossed the cane to his partner. He gave Ernie a conspiratorial wink and said, "I'll leave you two to celebrate her birthday. How about that, mija," Jack jeered as he gave Teresa's sweat-sheened bottom a hard smack with his big bare hand, before feeling between her legs. "I ain't worked up sech an appetite since I strung Honey Wilson up in her daddy's barn, Ern! I'm gonna rustle me up somethin' to eat and scrounge me some more of that tequila." Black Jack Slocum's lizard-like eyes slid over Teresa's nude body once again. "Have fun, Ernesto!" "You go ahead, Jackson. Me and our Mexican cutie's gonna have us a fine time while yer gone. Ain't we, mija?" Ernie growled. Teresa was glad to see Jack turn and head for the door, but her relief was short-lived. She felt the mattress beneath her buckle under the added weight of pure evil, as Ernie Gibbs slowly clambered up onto the back of the bed.?
Chapter XIII The Nightmare Continues Ernie Gibbs had climbed up onto the rear edge of the bed and taken a stance between Teresa's spreadeagled legs before Jack Slocum reached the door on his way to the kitchen. The flickering candlelight in Teresa's bedroom had conspired to cast the silhouette of the dark-skinned beauty onto the wall on Ernie's right. There he could see the shapely outline of Teresa's taut, tortured body arched over the fallen barstool on the bed like a ravishing rainbow. And the churlish little leprechaun straddling her was ready to claim his pot of gold. The wiry little man ran his gnarly hands over Teresa's sleek, sweaty thighs and shapely buttocks which were still palpably warm from her caning. Teresa grimaced in pain as Ernie the Weasel fondled her smooth, rod-ravaged bottomcheeks. Ernie couldn't get enough of Teresa's nut brown behind, squeezing, mauling, groping her rounded nether-ovals to his heart's delight. "Ohh, baby, you got one hot little ass!" Ernie exulted as he withdrew his left hand and began to stroke his half-erect man-weapon. His swollen prick responded enthusiastically to his oft-practiced pulls, firming with blood-hardened lust. "Ever taken it up the ass, you Mexican whore?" Ernie asked grimly, as he slid the tip of his pulsing cock slowly up and down Teresa's buttock crease, enjoying the delicious pressure of her smooth butt-ovals against his stiffening manhood. His stricken captive shook her head, "No... nunca...Please... No..." Ernie responded to her pathetic plea with a gloating, "Well, Happy Fucking Birthday, then mija! Cause that's where yer gonna get it! Oh, man, that feels good! Don't it, baby?" Ernie the Weasel crowed lustily as he worked his throbbing cock back and forth through Teresa's tempting bottom-cleavage. Ernie Gibbs savored that tantalizing friction until he was almost ready to explode and then he fisted his cock into position and pressed it right up against Teresa's puckering starfish. "Yep, yer gonna get it up yer sweet little ass, now, so you might as well relax and enjoy it," Ernie rasped as he tried to work his stiff prick into the tight little roseate. "C'mon, take it, mija!" he muttered angrily. But the beautiful Latina was both tiny and dry, and her every reflex fought to repel the invading penis. "Stop fighting me, bitch, or yer gonna wish you had!" Ernie growled as he struggled to wedge his blood-hardened cock into her delicate orifice. But his position was a little awkward, standing on the rear edge of the bed above her arced body, and his frustration grew. And then he remembered how Black Jack had forced his monster-cock into Honey's resisting butthole back at the Wilson ranch. "Hey, Jackson!" he called out to his partner in the kitchen, "Heat me up some lard or oil or something." Beneath him the tightly bound beauty, her every straining muscle stretched to its limits by her erotic bedpost bondage, shuddered in horror and wriggled against the barstool, but Jack had done his work well. Escape was impossible, and mercy unlikely. While he waited for Jack to return, Ernie jammed his cock into Teresa's more receptive pussy, and began plowing his pulsing man-meat into Teresa's velvety vagina, while he probed her obstintate anus with a skinny, tongue-moistened finger. "Yeah, that's nice, " he crooned, as he worked his cock back and forth in her pleasure nook. "Makes a nice little warm-up, don't it, sweetie?" He was pumping his swollen organ into her at a pretty good clip when Jack returned, carrying an earthenware plateful of carne asada and tortillas and a fresh bottle of liquor. Balanced on top of the flat tortillas was a small porcelain pitcher, which he had converted into a make-shift gravy boat. Jack held the plate up to his partner gesturing for him to take the tiny pitcher. Ernie foolishly took it by the handle, and almost let it drop -- "Grover Goddamn Cleveland, Jack! Geesus, that's hot!" "Oh, sorry, pard. I plumb forgot," Jack smirked. "Meant to give you this first," and Jack extended a soiled napkin that Ernie could use as a sort of potholder for the small pitcher of sizzling-hot lard. "Asshole!" Ernie muttered. "You talkin' to me - or hers?" Jack smirked with a toothy grin. Ignoring him, Ernie carefully took a safe grip on the handle, and then touched the base of the scalding container to each of Teresa's shapely brown buttocks. "Aaghh!" she exclaimed as her bottomcheeks jumped uncontrollably each time Ernie held the hot metal against them. "Yeah, it's hot alright, Jack!" Ernie giggled psychotically. "This shit'll loosen her up!" And Ernie proceeded to touch the piping hot porcelain to the small of her back briefly before he returned to her ass, slowly dragging the steaming receptacle down the lovely length of her butt-crack, while Teresa writhed in agony. Meanwhile Jack Slocum took a seat on the edge of the bed, with the plate of food in his lap, and began eating as nonchalantly as if he were at a Texas roadhouse, while he watched the continuing torment of Teresa Martinez. After dragging the scalding-hot porcelain pitcher down Erika's inviting buttock-cleft, Ernie pulled backed away from Teresa slightly, muttering, "I warned you to loosen up, girl! " Then he cautiously upended the pitcher and let some of the sizzling grease drip into the beautiful groove between Teresa's mocha-brown butt-cheeks. "AURGGHHHH!!!" Teresa's entire body convulsed in a paroxysm of agony the moment the first scalding drop touched her sensitive flesh. Jack Slocum set his plate down on the bed, and, still chewing, reached for Teresa's discarded panties and stuffed them deep into her open mouth. "Keep it down, mija!" he mumbled through a mouthful of carne asada. "Cain't you let a man enjoy his dinner in peace?" Ernie chuckled, and then trickled some more of the hot grease onto Teresa's quivering buttocks while she screamed voicelessly into the stifling gag. "You shoulda listened when I told ya to relax," Ernie scolded. Ernie paused for a few seconds, enjoying her suffering, and then poured another few drops into her butt-crease, causing Teresa's body to spasm yet again. Then he clutched her left buttock with his left hand, spreading her cheeks a little wider, and then targeted the winking rosette itself, letting drop after sizzling drop spill directly onto her asshole and then run down into her labia, sending Teresa's pelvis into another long, convulsive shudder. It only took a few moments for the grease to cool, and Ernie wasted no time rubbing his dickhead up and down the groove between Teresa's asscheeks, until it was slick with grease. Once the tip of his throbbin cockstaff was suitably slick, Ernie jammed it against Teresa's winking rosebud, and then slowly wedged it into her tight muscular ring. "Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah! That's good, honey." Teresa could do little more than issue a series of low-voiced moans as her tormentor worked his cock slowly back and forth in her tight, tubular slippery channel slowly for a few seconds. Then he began to screw her even more vigorously, pumping her harder and harder, grunting with every stroke. "Oh, Geesus! Jack, I tell ya, she's tighter'n a Texas handshake!" Ernie groaned with pleasure as he thrust his scrawny hips forward, reveling in the sweet suction of Teresa's virginal rectum. "First time, eh mija?" Ernie rasped as he tightened his grip on her hips and drove his skinny cockshaft still deeper into his helpless prisoner. "Mmm, that's good! Geesus! Milk that prick, honey!" Ernie's every vicious lunge drove Teresa's tender tummy painfully against the rough wooden barstool over which she was splayed. Meanwhile Jack Slocum was munching on tortilla-wrapped carne asada with one hand, while he enjoyed the action. Each of Ernie's punishing thrusts made Teresa's pendulous breasts dance temptingly in the air, and Ernie kept her young girl-globes swaying alluringly as he picked up the tempo, pumping faster and faster into her rectum. Jack watched Teresa's succulent, dark-nippled breasts bobble and bounce until he just couldn't keep his hands off them any more. He reached out and cupped her left breast gently with a huge hairy hand, while Ernie battered away at her behind. Then, Jack's dark, reptilian eyes narrowed and he began to tighten his grip. Teresa looked at the black-clad outlaw in despair, pleadingly, but the sinister, snake-eyed desperado merely gave her a vulpine smile, and squeezed her dark-tipped breast harder still, his callused fingers rough against her tender nipple. Finally Jack pulled his hand away; it was dappled with crimson from the cactus cuts his pressure had re-opened. The traces of blood on his hand seemed in keeping with the meat juice that trickle from the corners of Slocum's mouth, accentuating his wolfish leer. Meanwhile Ernie was driving into Teresa like a man possessed, his hairy cojones slapping against her ass with every pleasurable thrust. "Geesus, Jack, she is SO fucking tight!" The Weasel had figured out to get better leverage now -- by standing above Teresa's elevated pelvis, with his knees slightly bent, and his wrists gripping the ends of the stool that lay across the bed. From that position he was able to focus the power in his bony hips more forcefully, and he took full advantage, pumping his rigid man-weapon into her body, while pulling the stool -- and the shapely young body bound to it - toward him with all of his strength. And despite Teresa's resistance, or maybe because of it, the muscles of her virginal rectum clenched around his cock like a hot fleshy vise. Ernie continued to pound away, grunting loudly with each pelvic thrust as he plowed into her rectal canal. The way Ernie had it figured, nothin' shows a woman who's boss like a good ass-fucking. And he was givin' Teresa Maria Elena Martinez a work-out she'd remember for a long, long time! But all good things must come to an end, and for Ernie 'cum' comes sooner than for most. Within a couple of minutes, he growled, "Mmmmm, baby, get ready! Here it comes, here it comes, geesusss, here it fuckin' comes!! Right up yer sweet ass!! Ah! Ahh! Aghhhh!" and with a final shudder of ecstasy, the sadistic little man emptied his viscous load deep into Teresa's bowels. When he withdrew his prick from Teresa's bottom it was covered with semen and rectal slime. He climbed unsteadily down off the back of the bed, still breathing hard, and walked around to its front, where he quickly untied Teresa's right arm from the bedpost. When Jack, seated on the other side of the bed looked at him quizzically, Ernie volunteered, "Teresa's been watchin' you eat that meat for a while; I reckon it's time she had a bone to suck on herself." And Ernie slid up on the bed so that he was kneeling, facing the beleaguered Mexican beauty, the head of his disgustingly slimy cock mere inches from her lips. He paused to re-tie her right wrist to the bedpost and then reached into her mouth, removed the pantie-gag, and leaned forward so that his semen-covered dong brushed her pouting lips and said, "Here, baby, suck on this for a while! Go on! Lick it clean!" The thought of her mouth on the slimy organ that had just been several inches up her rear passage was nauseating, and Teresa pulled away, shaking her glossy black mane violently from side to side in refusal. But no sooner had she done so, than Jack's thumbnail and forefinger closed on the sensitive tip of her left nipple, crushing the tender bud with almost unbearable pressure. "Aiiiiiii!" Teresa screamed, now that her mouth was free of the gag. Jack's grip relaxed for a moment, long enough for him to ask, "You gonna do like my pard wants?" When her response was not immediate, his talons closed on the delicate brown nipple-nugget again. "Aiiiee" she screamed again, "Dios, ayude-me. Si! I will do it." "Damned straight, you'll do it," Ernie barked. "Now clean that prick off." Ernie grabbed a handful of Teresa's ebony hair and guided her head to his still semi-erect penis as the dark-eyed dancer began the debasing task of licking the repulsive slime off of Ernie's cock.
Chapter XIV The Fury of Black Jack Slocum When Teresa had licked every last drop of putrid semen from his cock, goaded, when her efforts flagged, by Jack's punishing nails renewing their attack on her aching nipples, Ernie said, "Good girl. You make a mighty fine little Mexican cocksucker, mija." Then the ferret-faced man turned to Jack, "How much longer before we gotta be headin' out?" Jack had finished his meal except for a few good-sized jalapenos on the edge of his plate that he apparently had no taste for. He set the plate on the nearer nightstand and considered while he scratched his three-day-old beard. "Well, I reckon it's 3:00 or 3:30 now; sunrise'll be a little 'afore six. We'd better be outa here in the next coupla hours or so, if we're gonna put some distance between us, and whatever dumb Mexicans come along lookin' for our little dancing girl in the mornin'." Ernie was pulling his grungy pants back on. "Well I'm gonna get some grub. You look like you're ready for a second helping, buddy?" Ernie smirked, nodding toward Teresa. "Yeah, me and her's fixin' to have some private moments together, ain't we, Teresa?" he said with a sinister grin. "I got me a hankerin' to whisper some sweet nuthin's in her ear. Whyn't you take your skinny ass outa here and make yerself scarce for a while, pard?" Teresa, her long ebony hair wild around her face and shoulders, her lovely naked body in pain but her spirit unbroken, gave the swarthy desperado a look of withering contempt, as her beautiful dark eyes smoldered with rage and hatred. Seeing Teresa's expression, Ernie chuckled, "Big Jack, you got a ways to go before this filly is broken!" before turning and heading toward the kitchen. But not before he had seen the ominous black cloud that passed over Jack's face in reaction to Teresa's glare. Ernie knew that look, and it spelled more trouble for the bronze-skinned beauty. Ernie couldn't resist leaving the bedroom ever so slightly ajar as he went into the kitchen, even though Jack had made it clear he didn't want to be spied on. Jack was moody that way. Some times he liked showing off, just like he had years earlier when he and Ernie -- together with a few of their boyhood pals -- had begun their sordid career by raping sweet Daisy Thompson, the sharecropper's daughter. Who could forget the way her young brown body, had squirmed in the tall grass as each of the boys had mounted her out behind Pappy Gibbs' woodshed? Or how her gleaming bottom had wriggled when Ernie had fetched his pa's strap and the boys had taken turns flogging her squirming buttocks when had she refused to take them into her mouth? Or how her cocoa-colored nipples had danced with pain when Jack had flipped her over and launched a few vicious strokes at her nubile breasts? Yeah, sometimes Jack was in the mood for doublin' up on a girl, as they had done with Honey Wilson, and Teresa herself earlier in the night. But there had been other times, too, with other women, when, to Ernie's disappointment, Jack had shoo'd his skinny sidekick away, as if he wanted to demonstrate his power and mastery to his victim, to show that he didn't need anyone's help to drag her through the depths of degradation. But Ernie had had a passion for peeping since he was a kid, when he used to spy on his older sister and three or four of her girlfriends when they went out to the swimmin' hole. He'd gotten his first real erection when he was eleven, hidin' out there in the piney woods, watchin' those smooth-skinned fourteen, fifteen and sixteen-year-old girls splashing in that shallow pond. Over the next two or three years he'd pumped enough jizz into those bushes he'd hid behind to fertilize a flower garden. To this today, he still liked to see a woman naked and dripping wet, just like those girls looked when they took their first step out of the old swimmin' hole, their wet young bodies gleaming in the summer sun. And he still got a kick out of peeping, too. It wasn't so long ago that he'd worked on the Wilson ranch and he'd found a good vantage point outside a bedroom window. From there, night after night, he had been able to watch the delicious Honey Wilson prepare for bed. He'd never forget those nights in the darkness, feverishly enjoying the sight of the sexy young blonde as she slowly undressed, removing her clothes piece by piece, until the creamy curves of her naked young body were clad in nothing more than the pale moonlight. And what a body that cock-teasing bitch had had! Long, luscious legs, the most spankable ass between San Antone and Santa Fe, that delicious golden vee between her legs, and the juiciest pair of tits a man could ever hope to see. Night after night he'd watched her standing nude in front of her mirror, touching herself, or lying across her stark white sheets while her hands explored her body in the stillness of the west Texas night. From the way she touched herself, and occasionally glanced toward the window, Ernie reckoned she knew someone was watching, but enjoyed putting on a show anyways. But one night, the way he had it figgered, she had realized that it was him who was getting' his jollies, rather than Red or Buck or Stoney, and she had complained to her daddy. The next morning the other ranch hands had kicked his ass good, knocking out a couple of his back teeth in the process, and thrown him off the ranch. But he'd had the last laugh, him and Jack, when papa and the ranch-hands had gone on a cattle drive to Abilene. Once she was alone on the ranch, Jack had taken Honey by surprise and hung her sun-tanned body, clad only in pretty white panties, from a rafter in the Wilson barn, and Ernie had paid her back for the beating he had taken. Ernie'd been a boxer briefly in his youth, and he had put on a pair of thick leather riding gloves and sparred a round with his defenseless, nearly nude blonde "opponent", punching her trim stomach, her gently curved flanks, and, especially, her ripe young breasts. He'd only used a fraction of his strength of course, but even so he would never forget the satisfying feel of his gloved fists jabbing Honey's lush, pink-nippled girl-globes with a series of crisp, straight-on lefts. Now and then he'd show'd her a little fancy footwork and mixed in a right cross or a left hook, too, in order to punish the outer curves of the nicest pair of punching bags he'd ever seen. They'd worked Honey over good, him and Jack had, over the next day or so, but he didn't think he'd ever forget that cock-thrilling first act of his revenge, when he'd made Honey Wilson pay for teasing him all those nights.... "Aaahhhh! Oh God, no!" Ernie's pleasant reminiscences were interrupted by a groan emanating from the adjoining bedroom. Followed moments later by a tearful, "Stop! Por favor! It hurts!" "It's supposed to hurt, bitch! And it's gonna hurt more if you don't give me yer other leg, and quit yer damn whinin'." Moments later Ernie heard Teresa whimper, "No, it won't go...please...no...ayuda me... aaagggh! Oh, God! Por favor.., please...mmgph" and then her voice died away. His curiosity piqued by Teresa's pitiable moans, Ernie had to force himself to ignore the goings-on in the bedroom and to focus on business. He and Jack had a couple of days ride back to the border-crossing at Nogales, so he figured he might as well pack up some grub for the trip. While he heated up some of the carne asada on the old wood stove, he went through the pantry cupboards carefully, selecting items that would serve well on the trail. Ernie also had his eye out for Teresa's stash - the bitch had stolen his poker winnings and the rest of his money. And no Mexican half-breed slut was gonna get away with robbin' Ernie Gibbs! While the food was warming up on the big wooden stove, he satisfied himself that there was nothing of value hidden in any of the kitchen cabinets, savoring as he did so, the robust scent of the carne asada sizzling in the pan. Teresa was a good cook, and all the activity of the night had heightened his own appetite. He was ravenous. Only muffled groans had escaped the adjacent room for a couple of minutes, until Ernie heard Jack growl angrily, "You shouldn't have disrespected me like that in front of my partner." Even though he knew Jack didn't like being spied on, Ernie grabbed a few strips of the now-warm carne asada and tiptoed over to the bedroom door. As he bit off a chunk of the tasty meat, he put his good eye to the tiny crack he had left. Quite a sight awaited him as he squinted into the flickering candlelight. Teresa was lying face up on the bed, slightly propped up, with her head pressed back against the massive wrought-iron headboard. Jack had forced her arms back through openings in the wrought iron, and then lashed her upper arms tightly to the iron bars -- leaving her hands free but powerless. And then he had forced her right leg up and back, and artistically coiled a heavy rope six times in contiguous loops around her ankle before tying it to the top of the right-hand bed post, high above her head. And then he had done the same with her left leg. With her ankles pinned high on the headposts of the bed, Teresa's coppery legs formed a lovely, but painful-looking, vertical 'V' that was nearly as wide as the bed itself. From Ernie's vantage point behind the door, at right angles to the bed, he could only imagine how that position must have exposed her juicy naked cunt. But Big Jack Slocum, kneeling between her legs, had a bird's eye view. Her labia peeked through her prolific black pubic hair, pink and moist, her sturdy little clit exposed and vulnerable. Jack reached over grabbed a pillow, and slid it under her ass, elevating her pelvis slightly. Teresa's well-greased little asshole seemed to wink at him in the candlelight. "All right, baby. Now you're gonna pay for that evil look you gave me," the big man snarled menacingly, "cause I'm gonna fuck everything you got! And Jack's long arms reached over her head, and grabbed a couple of the sturdy bars in the iron grillework for leverage, as he pressed his huge cock up against Teresa's womanhood. He taunted her with it, brushing it lightly against the folds of her sex once or twice, before suddenly ramming its length into her gaping pussy with one powerful thrust. "Unnnghhhhhhhhh!" Teresa groaned miserably, as Jack buried his truncheon deep inside her. Ernie's teeth tore into another strip of the tangy beef as he watched with awe from his clandestine vantage point. Big Jack's hairy ass was moving back and forth like some inhuman engine of flesh, as he implacably drilled his Texas ramrod into Teresa's soft womanhood again and again. With her feet pinned high on the bedposts, the lovely Latina was bent like a human pretzel, utterly powerless to escape Jack's punishing pounding. Torn between the desire to watch, and his eagerness to find his money, greed finally won out. Ernie swallowed the last of the carne asada, washed it down with a slug of tequila, and walked back into the bar/dining area, his good eye darting around the room. Behind the bar, in a recess under the counter, he found a cigar box that Teresa evidently used as a till. But it contained only couple of hundred pesos and a few dollars American -- peanuts. Pocketing the money, Ernie the weasel looked around carefully -- she had to have hidden the money somewhere! "Por favor...no...ooohh... Aaghhhhh, it hurts!" Ernie smiled at the cries of pain emanating from Teresa's bedroom. Served the thieving bitch right! He looked around the cantina as he reached into his nearly empty bag of chewing tobacco, and put the remnants of the stringy tobacco into his mouth. He quickly had to switch it from the left side of his mouth, where he usually chewed, to the right, because the left side of his face was still painfully sore from where Carlos had struck him with the bottle. As he renewed his search, Ernie the Weasel could hear Teresa's bed, rattling like the sound of a locomotive passing over crooked railroad ties, from a good two rooms away, punctuated by Jack's guttural grunts of pleasure and Teresa's almost continuous moans of pain. Damn! Ernie thought, his partner must really be fucking the shit out of her. Ernie rifled through a few more drawers, and then he searched the cabinet that housed the cantina's dishes, glasses, and silverware. Nothing. Nada. Zilch. He had just removed the cushions of El Viejo's armchair, intending to search beneath them, when he heard another plaintive cry from the bedroom. "No, no, for the love of God, no... Don't... Aggh! Aggghh!! Aggggghhh!!!" This time Ernie couldn't restrain himself. He retraced his steps to the door and peeked in again. In the dim candlelight, he could see the bed shaking violently as Jack's muscular body pumped into the young girl, but he was moving more slowly now, and more effortfully. But the angle of his body seemed lower, and Teresa was obviously in even greater distress. "Too bad my partner had to loosen you up, baby," Jack muttered grimly. "I was hopin' for a crack at a cherry asshole!" Ernie could hardly believe it -- he had barely been able to work his normal-sized dick into Teresa's slim anal channel. His jaw worked aggressively at his chaw. How in the world could she take Jack's stallion-sized organ? And truth to tell, the dark-eyed beauty wasn't able to take it very well. She felt as if someone had stuck a cudgel in her rectum, and some hellish giant was using a gigantic sledge to drive it in, inch by ass-ripping inch. Could a woman be raped to death? she wondered. Nothing she had been through that night, neither belt, nor whip, nor cane was as horrible, or as humiliating, as Jack's pile-driving anal assault. Little by little, Jack forced his prodigious man-meat into Teresa's exquisitely tight rectum, while his powerful hands gripped the wrought iron headboard to assure himself maximum leverage. To Teresa it felt as if Black Jack's entire two hundred pound weight had been compressed into the battering-ram cock that hammered into her relentlessly, metronomically -- again and again and again. The harder he pounded her, the louder Jack grunted. "Fuck! That's good! So fucking tight!! Fuck!!!" he growled. "Up to the fuckin' hilt, mija, that's how you're gonna get it. I'm fixin' to split you in half!" Sweat was pouring off Jack's upper body now, and dripping down to join Teresa's own perspiration. Jack could feel her sweat-slick tits beneath him as he continued ramming his fuck-pole into Teresa's tiny sphincter, and then he figured, what the hell? -- it would be a shame to waste those sweat-lubricated mammaries. To Teresa's great relief, Jack pulled his humongous horse-cock out of her rear tunnel. But her relief was to prove short-lived. Because Big Jack reached his long arm across to the nightstand and grabbed the largest of the jalapenos from the plate he had deposited there . He slit the green chile lengthwise with a sharp thumbnail, pulled the two halves apart, baring the jalapeno's pulp and then inserted them, one at a time, into Teresa's gaping pussy. Jack was still slitting the second jalapeno when Teresa began to feel the toxic juice of the chile burning between her legs. But she didn't have much time to dwell on it, because thirty seconds later Jack had forced the first half of the other chile into her anus, and then used the second as a wedge to cram it further up her newly-violated rectum. Within seconds, her entire pelvic area was ablaze with an itching burning sensation, and Teresa squirmed in agony, her hips writhing in shameless abandon. Jack watched her, amused by the spectacle, for a moment or two, and then he stood on the bed above her, and deftly unwound the bindings that had imprisoned each of her ankles. Teresa was at last able to lower her long shapely legs, half-numb from lack of circulation, until they lay flat on the bed. Black Jack, meanwhile, dropped down to his knees so that he was straddling her slender waist, facing her, his prodigious cock still fully engorged. The lovely Latina, helpless beneath Jack's well-built frame, was puzzled by his sudden movement. But the light of insight or intuition clicked on when Jack slid forward a little on her torso, his hairy ass heavy on her tight stomach. Ernie watched intently as Jack proceeded to lift his rock-hard horse-cock, and used it as a club, slamming it into the soft inner curve of Teresa's right breast. Shifting his weight slightly he whacked her stiff-nippled left breast, hitting her once, twice, three times squarely on her tender areola. Back and forth Jack went, holding his dick in his left hand as if it were a hammer-handle, walloping each of Teresa's glorious lust-mounds in turn. Meanwhile, he reached back between her squirming legs and inserted his long, gnarled index finger into her cunt, and pushed the burning chiles further up into her vagina, before going back to smacking her smooth-skinned breasts with his male truncheon. Then, tiring of that sport, he spread his knees a little, and inched backward slightly before grabbing one of Teresa's luscious breasts in each large hairy hand. He grunted loudly with masterful pleasure, and then leaned forward and slid his huge, throbbing member into the warm, fleshy valley between her satin-soft pleasure-globes. "Ooooh, yeah!!!!!" Jack moaned in ecstasy as he felt Teresa's breasts envelop the fleshy cudgel he had just used to punish them. "Baby, I been wanting to fuck these beauties, since the minute I walked through that bar-room door, and saw 'em spillin' out of that little pink thingie you was wearing before. Damn! That feels good!" Slocum wallowed in decadent pleasure for another half-minute, sliding his hairy phallus in and out of Teresa's delicious cleavage and then rasped, "What's the matter, sweetie? Never had your tits fucked before?" Teresa, squirming with mortification, shook her head no, as she looked down to see Jack's rock-hard cock, dripping pre-cum, fighting its way through the cafe-au-lait mounds he had crammed together. "Oooooh," she moaned through tightly-clenched teeth, as the fiery chiles continued to do their devil's work inside her. "Well, yer dumb greaser boyfriends didn't know what the fuck they was missing! If you was my girl," Jack grunted, as he worked his gnarly blue-veined cock through her voluptuous cleavage, "I'd see that these fine titties got fucked on a regular basis! Spit on it, honey, keep it good and wet! So it'll slide through those big jugs nice and smooth." Teresa somehow summoned up enough saliva to drool clumsily down on his cock-head. The sight caused Ernie, hidden behind the doorway, to spit his own stream of brown tobacco juice onto the kitchen floor. "That's a girl! Mmm, that's nice," Jack muttered as he compressed her delicious breastflesh around his rampant organ. "Oh, Geesus, that's good, baby. Now stick out that pretty pink tongue a yers, mija - I want you to lick the tip of my big fucking dick every time it come sliding through. You got it?" he growled, as he tightened his grip on Teresa's tender pain-melons." Teresa obediently leaned slightly forward, and was careful to lick a pearl of pre-cum from Jack's dickhead each time his Texas-sized member forced its way through the narrow passageway between her crushed-together breasts. With every thrust his wiry pubic hair worked like sandpaper against the undersides of her breasts. Under normal circumstances, this form of sex play might not have been particularly painful or even disagreeable, but, as Jack well knew, tonight was hardly normal circumstances. Teresa's breasts were naturally sensitive and they had already taken a lot of punishment tonight -- particularly the inner curves. And Jack was ramming his rock-hard prick roughly between those very inner slopes that the diabolical spines of the cacti had ravaged what seemed like hours ago. Watching from behind the door, Ernie knew that Black Jack loved fucking a nice pair of tits more'n just about anything, especially when he'd had a chance to rough 'em up some first. Even in the faint light emanating from the four candles, Ernie the Weasel could make out some of the dark horizontal stripes that decorated Teresa's succulent breasts. They were lurid testimony to the punishment they had absorbed. "So far," he thought to himself grimly. Watchin' Jack had gotten him all excited; he couldn't wait to get his own hands on those dark-nippled beauties once again. Notwithstanding the abuse they had endured, Teresa's caramel-colored mounds were as firm and resilient as ever, and her taut straining nipples were still as defiant as the burning embers in her eyes, so Black Jack Slocum decided to work 'em over a little more. While the heels of his hands crushed her breasts inwards around his rampaging penis, he seized the proud buds between the thumb and forefinger of each hand. He rolled the dark brown nipple-nuggets gently, at first, in his fingers, and then, when he saw the pained look of realization in Teresa's flashing eyes, even more firmly. Still easing his cock back and forth between her swollen breasts, Jack's immensely strong fingers continued to clamp down on Teresa's sensitive love-buds. As the seconds wore on, Teresa could see the tendons in Slocum's wrists tighten, as he increased the pressure, tightening the screws on her agonized love- nuggets. Needless to say, Teresa's tit-pain served as an aphrodisiac to big Jack -- he sawed his big cock back and forth between her sleek, sweaty melons, loving the sensation of his oversized cojones colliding with the undersides of her firm young breasts. And with every manly thrust, his fingers tightened, twisted, and tore at the tortured tips of Teresa's breasts.
Chapter XV The Hispanic Inquisition Ernie Gibbs backed reluctantly away from the door -- he was enjoying the brutal sexual theater being played out in the bedroom, but time was getting short, and he was anxious to recover his money. He finished stripping the cushions off El Viejo's armchair, and searched it thoroughly. He opened the front of the large clock that stood against the wall opposite the kitchen, and examined the workings -- nothing. He strode back behind the bar, re-arranging the long row of bottles - still nothing. Ernie was becoming increasingly frustrated and he didn't take frustration well. Besides that, his damaged eye was starting to throb again. He'd gone through all the cupboards and drawers in the kitchen, and every conceivable hiding place in the cantina proper -- the only place left to look was Teresa's bedroom. Furious and frustrated, he stormed back through the kitchen hurriedly grabbing another piece of the tasty carne asada and wolfing it down. In his haste, he tripped over the tall sack of dried beans, and banged his knee painfully into the kitchen table. "Damn!" he cursed loudly, and kicked at the bean bag, sending hundreds of pink pinto beans scuttling across the floor. Needless to say, Ernie was not in a pleasant frame of mind, when he flung open the door to the bedroom, squawking, "Where's my fucking money?" Unfortunately Teresa was unable to answer him; because Black Jack Slocum now had his knees on her shoulders, his plum-sized testicles on her chin, a scratchy forest of black pubic hair at her lips, and his massive cock halfway down her throat. "Gag all you want, darlin', but yer gonna take it all!" Jack grunted. "Hell, that's only half of it! Here, have some more!" And the hulking gunslinger screwed another inch or so of his thick prick into Teresa's wide-stretched mouth and throat. Jack's balls had been working overtime tonight; beneath their thick thatch of wiry crotch hair they were almost painfully red, chock-full as they were with male spunk. Teresa was wide-eyed and on the verge of gagging at the violent intrusion of Jack's huge blue-veined knob. She could feel Slocum's sperm-laden pelotas colliding with her chin with each punishing thrust. Jack paused in his efforts to cock-choke his beautiful victim and turned toward his unwelcome guest. "I thought I told you and your ornery ass to get lost for a while." "I want the money this bitch stole from me!" and the raging little man began going through Teresa's upright dresser throwing clothes everywhere. Finding nothing there, he started in on her closet, going through each garment, and emptying a number of boxes he found on an overhead shelf. Jack, unperturbed, continued plunging his mighty manhood between Teresa's kissable lips, forcing its punishing length ever deeper down her throat . "Take it, baby! Take my big hairy cock, and suck it right down to the root!" Teresa meanwhile was on the verge of choking; she could hardly bear taking Ernie's normal-sized dick in her mouth, much less Jack's prodigious monster. But Black Jack continued to force his massive cock further and further down her so-recently-virginal throat, as his diminutive partner continued to ransack the bedroom. Teresa, sinner that she was, prayed silently for deliverance from the awesome giant who had her pinned to her bed. Her bed, which, until a few hours ago, had been a soft, warm, pleasant retreat from life's difficulties; but her sanctuary had been invaded, and the marauders had turned it, like almost everything else in her world, into an instrument of their sadistic will. She struggled desperately to breathe as Black Jack Slocum thrust his colossal organ deeper and deeper into the moistness of her warm young throat. He accompanied each lunge with loud animalistic grunts of primeval lust, until at last, aroused as almost never before, the cruel desperado launched jet after jet of thick male-fluid down her throat. Teresa, forced to swallow his copious spurts of sperm, wondered at how the man-monster who rode her could have generated such a volume of gism, in the relatively brief time since his prior, equally awesome orgasm. At last Jack deigned to withdraw his powerful piston, and he slid back down her chest, moistened her pretty nipples with the last remnants of his cum, and when he had finished wiping his prick on her marvelous breasts, rolled off of her. But no sooner had Jack finished with her, then his sidekick was in her face, fairly screaming at her, "Where's my money, you thieving bitch?" Teresa, exhausted beyond measure, murmured, still trying to catch her breath after her prolonged oxygen deprivation, could barely mumble, "I will show you." "All right then, now we're getting someplace!" While Jack pulled his clothes and boots back on, Ernie made short work of untying Teresa's arms and ankles from the bedframe. Just to be on the safe side, though, he tied her wrists behind her -- no sense taking any chances. "Can you take them out? Por favor?" Teresa gestured between her legs where the spicy breath of the chiles continued to irritate her inner passages. "Yeah, I'll take 'em out, bitch. After I see my money! Andale! Let's go!" Ernie pulled the naked girl to her feet. Moving gingerly, Teresa led the two men back through the kitchen. She paused for a moment, stepping gingerly on the hard little pinto beans underfoot, seemingly appalled by the way Ernie had ransacked the kitchen. Big Jack impatiently put a large hand between her shoulder blades and shoved her hard. Stumbling a little, Teresa passed through the doorway beneath which she had suffered so much, and back into the cantina itself. Jack followed close behind, enjoying the view. On the bed, in the dim candlelight, it had been easy to forget how narrow her waist was, how desirable the graceful, swelling curves of her hips and buttocks. Buttocks that, in the brighter, kerosene lamp-lit cantina, were now embellished with more than a score of dark streaks, the lurid evidence of her caning. In a few places, trickles of creamy semen contrasted with the marks that he and Ernie had enjoyed embedding in her dusky dancer's thighs. Teresa's legs were shaky as she walked behind the bar and, without looking inside, offered the cigar box to Ernie. "There was nothing but a coupla dollars in there, honey. I'm lookin' for the fifty bucks you stole from me." Teresa's eyes were frantic as she looked at each of her stern masters. At the gruesome gargoyle-like face of Ernie Gibbs, and then the dark implacable visage of Jack Slocum. "You'd best tell him, girl," Slocum warned. "Ernie ain't in no mood to fuck around." "C-Carlos - mi hermano Carlos -- h-he has your money," she stammered. "No good, Teresita -- we searched him. What's more he told us YOU had the money. And since I had my six-gun in his mouth at the time, I don't reckon he was lyin'!" "No, no, it is not true. You must believe me," Teresa wailed desperately. "I know how to make her talk, Ern. Give me a hand with that tub outside." Ernie looked quizzically at his tall companion, then shrugged and followed him. Jack opened the door to the street, and looked around into the storm to make that sure no one was outside. The deserted church was ghostly in the cold night air; the downpour had stopped and the heavens were as quiet as the overgrown cemetery that adjoined the church. Satisfied that there was no one in sight, Jack signaled to Ernie, and the two of them dragged the big tub, nearly full with rainwater from the gutterspout, back into the cantina, closing the outer door behind them. Teresa, watched mystified as the two men labored, all the while struggling futilely with the coarse rope that bit into her wrists. Black Jack approached her, grabbed her arm in the iron grip she had come to know so well, and dragged her over to the tub of water. It was a good two feet deep and almost a yard across. It was full save for the water that had splashed on the floor as the two men had dragged it. "On yer knees, bitch!" Teresa sank to her knees. "Kneel up against the tub!" The lovely young woman obeyed, sliding forward until her bare thighs were flush against the chillingly cold metal. A shiver ran through her entire body. "Last chance, puta. Where's the money?" "No se, no se!" "Like hell you don't know!" And Jack crouched down along side of her, grabbed a great handful of her silky black hair in one huge hand and plunged her face-first into the water. He held her face underwater for about five seconds, then lifted her up, wet and sputtering. "Where's the money?" When Teresa failed to respond, Black Jack snarled, tightened his grip, and this time he forced her head completely under the water. Teresa thrashed violently, searching desperately for air, but her strength was no match for the towering Slocum's. He held her down for ten seconds this time. When he finally pulled the spluttering, choking girl up, the bitingly cold rainwater cascaded down her head and shoulders. Ernie Slocum giggled with glee as the icy water ran down her upper body. Teresa's neck and shoulders and her spectacular breasts were deliciously wet. "Enjoying yer bath, mija?" Ernie chortled, before his voice darkened once again. "Where's my fucking money?" It is not clear whether Teresa could have talked even if she were so disposed, so out of breath was she. But when she did not speak, Jack's powerful arms dunked her again. With her wrists tied behind her, there was little she could do except struggle violently to keep her head and shoulders above the surface of the water, but it was to no avail. Jack held her under for twenty seconds this time, but to her it seemed an oxygenless eternity. Teresa, convinced that her death was near, said a silent prayer to the Virgin of Guadalupe for mercy and forgiveness. When Jack pulled her out again, more of the bone-chilling water ran down her drenched upper body. "Gaaaugh! Kaaugghh!!" she gasped and choked, spitting up little spurts of water. Her nipples reacted to the cold by turning into steely brown rivets of flesh. Twice more Jack dunked her, each time longer than the last. But each time she answered Ernie's demands for the money by pleading, "No se. For the love of God, I don't know." "Hey, Jack," Ernie's good eye was bright, as he worked the big chaw of chewing tobacco into his mouth. "I'd almost forgot about them penalty strokes she earned during her birthday spanking. Eight of 'em, wasn't it?" "Reckon it was, Ern." "Tell you what, mija," Ernie whispered. "You give me my fifty bucks and we'll forget about them penalty strokes you got comin' and we'll be on our way." The shivering, soaked beauty could only mouth, "I...told... you...No se." "Like hell you don't know. All right, then if that's the way you want it. I'm gonna go grab those fuckin' canes, Jack. I got something special in mind for this thieving cunt!" Ernie stalked off toward the bedroom. Jack, meanwhile, began to unbuckle Black Betsy again. "No sense our wastin' our few moments alone, is there, Teresa? Bend over and kiss the floor, darlin'. I want to see that sweet ass 'a yours high in the air!" Teresa could hear the unmistakable sound of the leather hissing through Jack's wide belt loops one by one. Disconsolately she edged her sore knees backward from the cold tub until there was room for her to bend her face to the floor, offering her ripely round bottom to her tormentor. No sooner had her soft lips touched the dark wood then she felt the terrible stinging pain of Jack's belt blazing across the roundness of her uplifted buttocks. "Aahhhhhhhh!" She had not expected the first stroke to come so quickly. The blow almost drove her into the floorboards. "Get that sweet ass back up in the air, mija!" Jack roared, enjoying the view of the deliciously deep cleft that bisected Teresa's buttock ovals. When his tortured victim had once again elevated her shapely bottom properly, he ripped into her cane-streaked, cafe-au-lait buttcheeks yet again. "Ungghhhh!" Teresa grimaced through tightly clenched teeth. The black-shirted villain had time to criss-cross Teresa's tempting derriere with two more savage lashes before Ernie returned with a dangerously determined look on his ugly face. A little disappointed, perhaps, that Betsy hadn't had time to get more of a workout, Jack returned the frightful leather strap back to its normal place, safely ensconced between his wide belt loops. The force of his blows had knocked a couple of the jalapenos clean out of Teresa's burning pussy. He was just re-inserting the diabolical green flesh-burners between Teresa's legs when Ernie returned. Teresa put up little resistance; most of their fiery itch had long since been spent. "One of the damn things rolled under the bed," Ernie explained, "but I found 'em." Teresa glanced up sorrowfully at the gleeful rat-faced man as he brandished the pair of whippy canes, one of which he quickly handed to Jack. "We're fixin' to have us some more fun, Teresa. Less'n you tell us where you hid the money you stole from me!" The kneeling young beauty lowered her raven-haired head to the floor and resignedly prepared herself for further blows to her tender bottomflesh. Black Jack had lifted his cane high, drawing a bead on the ripe summits of Teresa's rounded buttcheeks, when Ernie stopped him. "No, Jack, that ain't what I had in mind. We done gave her a good ass-whuppin' with these already." Ernie swished his cane viciously in the air. "But I reckon that once she starts feelin' this baby," he swished the cane again, "across those juicy jugs of hers, our little amiga's memory is gonna improve right quick!" Teresa's heart sank; surely not even these two barbarians would never.. not the cane... not on her tender breasts... She looked up at her ferret-faced tormentor pleadingly. "N-no ... por favor ... merced ..." Her soft voice died away pitiably. Ernie knelt down next to his terror-stricken victim and cruelly lifted her head back by grabbing a handful of her silky black hair. "Where's my dough, you thieving whore? You'd better tell me, honey, or me and Jack are gonna have to work over them pretty titties some more! Ain't we, Jackson?" With his free hand Ernie cruelly squeezed a pliable young breast for a moment, as Teresa bit her lip to keep from crying out in pain. It was just as well that Teresa did not see the malignity in Ernie's eyes as he slowly rose to his feet. Teresa looked up to see El Reptil, Black Jack Slocum, towering over her like some ferocious primordial carnivore, his teeth gleaming, his pitiless black eyes riveted to her wet and glistening breasts. Jack's long arm reached down and pushed the tip of his cane into the lovely halo of crinkly brown flesh that encircled Teresa's puckering left nipple. He ground the cane-tip into her dark bud for a moment while she grimaced in pain, and then he grunted. "Hold her arms, Ern. I'm fixin' to have me some fun." His partner obliged, seizing the kneeling girl's wrists and pulling them straight back behind her until her shoulder-muscles were taut. "Thanks, pard," Slocum winked, as he inserted the very apex of the cane into the inviting valley between Teresa's close-set tit-globes. Then, moving his wrist with such swiftness that the rod became almost invisible, he sent the tip of the cane whizzing back and forth between her breasts, stinging their soft, cactus-pricked inner curves as Teresa winced in pain. He continued this amusing pastime for a full minute, while Ernie held her motionless, enjoying the sight of his partner's swift-moving cane bouncing back and forth across the narrow strait between the lush inner curves of Teresa's breasts with Gatling-gun rapidity. Each impact was barely perceptible in and of itself, but cumulatively the cane-stings took a painful toll. By the time Jack pulled the cane back, the inner contours of Teresa's breasts were on fire. "Well, mija?" Ernie growled as he twisted her wrist. "You gonna tell us where you stashed my money? Or are me 'n' Jack gonna have to do a little more convincin'?" Teresa groaned in misery. "I ... I don't have your money.... Please..." Slocum scratched the three-day growth on his chin. "No offense, Ern, but I kinda hope she doesn't talk. I think I got me a little kink, here," Jack chuckled deep in his throat, as he pretended to rub his sinewy right forearm, "that I need to work out." "And givin' these beauties a few solid shots," he grinned sadistically, as he tapped the rod down on the shapely upper slopes of Teresa's lust- melons, "might be just what the doctor ordered." Ernie grabbed a handful of Teresa's black hair. "You gonna tell me where you stashed my money?" Ernie asked again. Weakly, "I... I can't. I... don't ... know." "Like hell you don't. Push her back flush up against the tub, Jack. That's good." The tub was a little over two feet high. The kneeling Latina's still-damp breasts were slightly above the tub's cold metal rim. "OK, Jack, now scrunch her down so that those big juicy knockers are sittin' right up on the rim. Now pull her head back out of the way. Perfect!" Ernie picked up his weapon and paused for a moment to appreciate the erotic vignette he'd created. Teresa's golden-bronze, rainwater-slick breasts rested gently on the frigid lip of the tub, her chocolate nipples puckering from the cold. Jack had her hair twisted behind her so that her back was arched in a sensuous curve. "Last chance, mija," warned Ernie ominously as he rested the length of the cane on the soft upper slopes of Teresa's sweet young breasts, and tapped them gently, letting her feel the unforgiving hardness of the wood, giving her pleasure-globes the briefest of foretastes of what was to come. "Remember how this felt on yer sweet ass? Well, I guaran-fuckin'-tee ya it's gonna hurt twice as bad when I lay into those juicy knockers of yers!" "Please...don't...." Teresa shuddered spasmodically and flinched in pain as Ernie flicked a drop of rain-water from her left nipple. Even that quick little flick of the wrist left a bitter sting. How could she possibly endure a full force blow to her tender breasts? And then she watched in disgust as Ernie spat a slimy stream of brown tobacco juice onto her right breast. "Still don't feel like talkin' eh? Fine by me. Let the party continue, eh, Jack!" "No...don't..." THWUCCKK!! Aaaaaaaggggghhhhh!!" Ernie had lifted the cane and whistled it sharply down onto the proud upper slope of Teresa's succulent right breast. "Yeah!" Ernie yelled in exultation, as the blow made contact, spattering the tobacco juice across her chest and shoulders. He noticed that the sound the cane made when it drilled her tits was slightly different from the sound it had made when it had struck her buttcheeks. When Jack released her hair, Teresa's shameless writhing made it clear that her upper body was aflame with agony. "Your turn, Big Jack. Let her have it!" And the two changed places. Ernie stuck a bony knee into Teresa's back, forcing her throbbing breasts forward, even as he pulled her chin back. Teresa looked up to see Jack's sinister face, his wolfish grin evil and sadistic. Jack was far taller and stronger than Ernie; his blows, Teresa knew, were sure to prove even more unbearable than his partner's. Jack's long lizard-like tongue protruded from the corner of his mouth as he took aim. "Ready for another one, darlin'?" he grinned. "Please..." Teresa moaned piteously, "Ooouuhhh!!" she moaned, as Jack, his black eyes gleaming with sadistic lust, slammed the dreadful cane down with a violent THWUCCKKKK!!! across both of her soft young breasts. Bad as Ernie's blow had been, Jack's was even worse -- cutting and vicious. And the soaking her breasts had gotten during the dunking seemed to make them even more sensitive than they had been when Jack had worked them over with his thick black belt. Teresa's upper body vibrated in unspeakable pain. "No mas, por favor," she whimpered. Would the dawn never come? "You can stop this any time, y'know," Ernie offered, as he and Jack changed positions again. When he was met with tearful silence, he eyeballed her nicely proffered breasts again. "Geesus, Jack, you nailed her a good one that time!" he exclaimed as he touched the end of the cane to the thin dark line Jack had left, as Teresa flinched at the touch. And then, with a studied ferocity, the rat-faced little man whipped the cane sharply across her resilient left breast, THWUCCKK!! a centimeter closer to her nipple than Jack's blow had fallen. "Aaaaiiieeaah!!" Teresa screamed in agony. The fact that her breasts were pinned against the cold metal of the tub exacerbated her suffering "I beg of you ... please ..." the beautiful Latina prayed. But Black Jack Slocum was deaf to her entreaties. The hulking, black-browed gunslinger studied Teresa's mouthwatering breasts for endless seconds while she trembled in apprehension. He delighted in the sensuous quivering of her agitated love-globes and waited patiently for the delicious jiggling of her jugs to subside. When at last Teresa had regained her poise, he lifted his instrument of torture again and then clipped both of Teresa's perky nipples with a swift and deadly THWICKK!! "Ohhhh!!! Godddd!!!! Somone ... please ... help ... me," Teresa wailed as a fresh wave of agony coursed through her tortured breasts. Ernie pulled his knee out of her back. "Ain't no one gonna be helpin' you, sweetheart, ceptin' me and Jack. Wait a minute. I take that back. I'm fixin' to give your sweet titties another 'helping' of this," he shook the cane before her tear-filled eyes, "in just a second." Perhaps involuntarily, Teresa moved her torso slowly from side to side, hoping perhaps that that gentle motion would bring some comfort to her aching breasts. "Shit, Jack, you got her good with that last one, partner. Look at her wiggle them boobies!" Ernie sneered at their trembling captive as they swapped places once again. "Y'know, Jack, I thought it'd be a coon's age before I'd see another pair of tits as fine as Honey Wilson's. But damn! I ain't so sure that Teresa's ain't just as nice." Ernie slid the slender rod along the cold lip of the metal tub and lifted Teresa's lovely naked breasts up slightly. "Damn, they're purty, ain't they? So young and round and firm. And look at them big brown nipples stickin' out nice and hard for us." Ernie leered as he plumped her delectable mounds for another second or two, before gently lowering them back on to the cold lip of the tub. "Yep, you got some man-pleasin' tits, there, Teresita. You cain't hardly blame a feller for wantin' to work 'em over some. Those babies were built for pain!" "And more pain is just exactly what I'm fixin' to give 'em, honey!" Ernie snarled menacingly, as he sawed the slender cane slowly, ominously, to and fro across the rounded slopes of Teresa's quivering breasts. "Less'n you tell me where you hid my damn money?" Ernie scraped the cane roughly against Teresa's abused nipple-buds. His cock was hard in his trail-worn pants again. It was a damn shame that he didn't have enough time to fuck her tight little ass again. Teresa was too exhausted to beg; her shoulders shook convulsively as the infernal cane taunted and teased her throbbing love-globes. Ernie the Weasel let the dreadful instrument play back and forth over the curves of her breasts while he pondered his next move. He considered for a minute, and then decided to leave her tasty brown nipples for his partner. He slid the cane back up her breast until it rested directly above the nasty weal Jack's first blow had left. "Where's the money, puta?" Ernie repeated as he poked the edge of the cane into the tender spot. When he got no answer other than an involuntary shudder, Ernie snarled, "Dig your knee right into the middle of her back, Jackson. So them juicy tits are sticking out real nice." He slid the hard-edged cane menacingly over Teresa's delectable coppery breast-mounds, while Jack brutally planted a sharp kneecap between her shoulderblades. "Yeah!! Just like that! Christ, Jack, look at those fuckin' knockers!" "Talk, bitch!" Ernie ordered. "I ... told ... you. I don't..." THWUCCCK!!! "Aaauuuuggghhhhhh!!!" With a demonic grin, and a triumphant "Yeaahhhh!!" Ernie had given her a third savage stroke, this time revisiting her right breast, and falling exactly on the mark Jack had left. This fiendish blow, though, cracked the skin, and a drop of crimson began to form on the surface of Teresa's tortured breast. Once the two had switched places again, Big Jack let his cane hover above that single drop of blood. He remembered how Honey Wilson had smashed his nose when he'd raped her by the pond, and how he'd bled all over her peaches-and-cream breasts while he fucked her half-senseless. The blood had looked good on Honey Wilson's tit-melons then -- in fact it had driven him even deeper into a frenzy of cruelty. And that drop of red looked damn good on the burnished gold breasts of Teresa Martinez now! He dipped the slender end of the cane in the blood, and drew little swirls of scarlet on both of Teresa's heaving breasts. "Geesus, Jack, don't go gittin' artistic on me," Ernie mocked. "Enough with the finger-painting -- give those big fuckin' pinatas another whack! Bust those babies open!" Jack gave Ernie a scowl that was as dark as a moonless night. He didn't like much care for the "artistic' crack, or his weasel-faced partner's tone of voice. "Don't you worry yerself none, Ern, I ain't goin' soft." And to prove his point Jack gave Teresa another, even more hellacious, THWUCCCKKKK!!!!! across her sumptuous breasts. "Unnnnnnnnnngggggggghhh!" the moan came from deep in Teresa's diaphragm. "O God... Piedad, por favor." And this time, when Ernie let go of her head to change places with Jack, Teresa slumped lifelessly forward against the cold metal tub. The horrendous stabbing pain from Jack's sadistic blow had caused her to lapse into merciful unconsciousness. But it only took a moment for Ernie to notice that, and he grabbed her roughly and thrust the unconscious girl's head and shoulders into the cold tub-water, until her frantic thrashing assured him that she was once again fully conscious. When he finally yanked her head back, the cold water once again streamed down from her face and hair, inundating her upper body. Jack's artistry in scarlet had been washed away, but a fresh dot of red was just beginning to bead up on the upper slope of her sopping right breast. "Hey Jack," the little man said, very much aware that Jack was still glowering at him ferociously, "I was just funnin' ya; I didn't mean nuthin' by it." "Yeah? Well, sometimes you got a big mouth, Ern. And one day yer gonna go too far." With only one bonus stroke remaining, Ernie jerked Teresa's debilitated body to her feet. As the shivering beauty, her wrists still tied behind her, slowly straightened, the evil disfigured face loomed close to her own. Anxious to get back on friendly terms with his partner, Ernie said, "Jack, you nailed her nips good with that downward cutter a coupla minutes ago. Whaddya say we give her a couple head-on?" Teresa shook her head pleadingly from side to side, whimpering softly. "Don't like the idea, mija? Hey, I'm just tryin' to jog your memory." But the exhausted Latina remained silent, her chin on her chest. "El gato still got your tongue, eh?" sneered the little man. "Then stand up straight. Straight I said! Spread your legs a little more. Wider! That's good." "Now, stick those tasty dumplings out for me, you thieving whore! Do it, or by God, we're gonna start over again! Or are you gonna tell me what you did with my dough?" Ernie was mesmerized by the fresh pearl of blood that had formed on the thin cut on her right breast. "No? Then take a deep breath, sweetie, and stick out those juicy jugs you're so proud of!" Teresa, sobbing in despair, submissively took a deep breath and did her best to thrust her tortured, dark-tipped mounds forward. And was rewarded for her efforts with a horrendous breast-splitting THWUCCCK!!!! as Ernie's home-made cane whipped into her dripping nipples. "AAAIIIIIEEAAHHHH!!" Teresa sank to her knees in pain. "Looks to me like she's in udder agony, Jack!" Ernie giggled. Within seconds, though, Ernie the Weasel had hoisted her back to her feet. Eager to patch things up with Jack, the little sadist once again forced the beleaguered Latina to thrust her full-nippled whipping targets out. This time, though, Ernie slid his own cane under her breasts and lifted them up even more. "How d'ya like them apples, Jack?" Ernie giggled maniacally, as he bounced her breasts softly with the rod. "I got 'em ready for ya partner. Give 'em hell!" "No... please...I can't take any m..." But Big Jack was deaf to her 'please'. The towering man in black drew back his seemingly endless arm, and gave her a roundhouse swing that seemed to Ernie to start at the Rio Grande and gather speed as it cut through the air, concluding its trip through space with a chilling THWACKKKK!!! With a marksman's skill Jack had scored a double bullseye, as the rod transferred every iota of its intense energy to Teresa's martyred breastflesh, searing both of her nipples in a blinding millisecond of pain. "Aaaaaiiiiiieeeeeeeeaaaagggghhhhhhhh!!!" Teresa's scream could have raised the ghosts from the graves in the old churchyard across the street. When the unearthly scream died away, Teresa's legs failed her again and she crumpled to her knees in unfathomable breast-pain. Jack looked down at the fallen girl and smiled. He'd outdone himself with that one. But it was time to move on. "C'mon, Ern. She don't have it, or she'd 'a talked by now. Let's clear outa here." "C'mon, Jack, can't you see that she's got another cut? It's time to disinfect those tits again! Get up, bitch!" "Please... I...can't..." "All right, honey, I suppose a gentleman oughta help a lady up!" And Ernie stooped over and dug his tobacco-stained fingers into both of Teresa's tawny breasts and began to pull upward with all of his strength. "Aaaiiiiieeeehhh! Stop... please... I'm getting ... Aiiaaahhh!!" With a second vicious yank, Ernie had lifted Teresa bodily to her feet. "Pass me what's left of that bottle of whiskey, Jack." While Jack moved toward the bar, Ernie dragged his terrorized captive back toward the tub, and plunged her upper body into the chilled water for about fifteen seconds. When he lifted her out of the frigid water, Teresa's mocha-colored melons were sopping wet again, her shameless nipples once again fully distended. "Yeah, that's nice. I like 'em wet, don't you, Jack?" Ernie jerked Teresa to her feet again, took the bottle of strong whiskey, and began to pour the remaining liquor, a little at a time, across the tops of Teresa's slightly lacerated breasts; she shuddered convulsively as the burning liquid sought out every fissure in the satiny gold skin of her breasts. "Look at her jiggle those titties, Jackson!" Ernie cackled delightedly. Ernie righted the bottle and bent his head to her right breast and slurped noisily at the whiskey with which he had inundated it. "Mmmm-mmm! Damn! Get on that other tit, Jack. Whiskey and water, with a twist 'a tit and a coupla drops of the tastiest blood in Me-ji-co. Best goddam drink in town. And the drink's on Teresa." Ernie slapped his bony knee, delighted with his joke. "Have yourself a jug, Jack! Get it, Jack -- have a jug!! Hee-hee!" And Ernie bent his head once again to the sweet stickiness of Teresa's tempting breast. He licked all around the lovely globe, but every few seconds he paused to stiffen his tongue and prod at the tender edges of the cuts the cane had opened, as Teresa grimaced in pain. Jack glanced quickly at the clock, then reached down and lifted Teresa's other breast-fruit up and then lowered his vulpine mouth to taste the whiskey; even after all of the abuse, Teresa's delicious breasts still tasted faintly of sweet coconut. Jack mouthed her melon thirstily for a minute, and then made eye contact with Ernie again. There was a frenzy in Ernie Gibbs fevered eyes unlike any Jack had ever seen before. When the gleeful little man had done slavering at her whiskey-coated love-globe, he backed away, no longer smiling. "Where's my dough??" he demanded with a scowl. "Please...How many times do I have to tell you? Non la tengo... I don't have it," Teresa sighed despairingly. " You're gonna tell me 'til you tell me what I wanna hear! Spread your legs, puta!" "W-w-why?" "Spread 'em, dammit! Hold her for me, Jack." And once Teresa had fearfully moved her sleek sepia thighs about a foot and a half apart, and Jack had her softly rounded shoulders encased in an iron grip, Ernie took the now-empty liquor bottle and jammed it roughly between her legs. "AAAANNNNNGGGHHH!" the lovely Latina grunted, as she twisted futilely, trying to escape the probing bottle. "How's about a drink, darlin'?," Ernie sneered as he worked the narrow end of the bottle deeper and deeper into her squirming pussy. It wasn't easy; he could feel Black Jack's jalapenos obstructing the narrow fleshy passageway. So he had to twist that much harder to force the bottle deeper into her pink slot. He worked it around in her quim roughly for a few seconds until he heard Jack's voice. "C'mon, pard, time to go." Ernie pulled the bottle out and threw it across the room in disgust. "Dammit, Jack, the bitch is lyin'. I know she is." Then his good eye brightened. "Tell you what, Big Jack -- do her like you did Honey Wilson." The little man's eyes were sparkling with lust. "Yeah!! Do her just like you did that big-titted, prick-teasing blonde back in Texas. And then give me five fuckin' minutes with her!" Jack looked at Ernie uncertainly out of one eye while the other regarded the grandfather clock; it wasn't much before daybreak. "Geesus, Ernie, we gotta get a move on ..." "Goddammit, Jack! You found time to do Honey Wilson, while I was laying in the dirt bleedin' at her daddy's ranch. You can damn well make time to do her," indicating the lovely Latina who stood submissively between them, moaning softly. "Besides -- you can do it fast, Jack. Yer the best I ever seen." Jack, flattered by the compliment, scratched his days-old whiskers and considered for a moment. "All right, Ern. But ten more minutes and then I'm outa here. And you can deal with a posse of damn Mexicans yerself. Which'll it be? Thick or thin?" Teresa looked from one to the other of her tormentors, not understanding the meaning of their conversation, except to know that it did not bode well for her. "Which one is gonna hurt more?" "Well, I reckon the thin probably does, but damn, she'd look mighty good in the thick, too." "Make it the thin, then, partner. Tie them chichis up tight! Tight as you did Honey Wilson's. So tight they'll look like a coupla balloons ready to burst!"
Chapter XVI A Tale of Tortures Past As Ernie the Weasel pleaded with a glowering Black Jack Slocum to subject their dark-haired prisoner to some severe breast bondage, the beautiful Latina looked from Ernie to Jack and back again in abject horror. She knew that some men liked rough sex; she knew that there were men who enjoyed hurting women. But she had no idea that there were men who enjoyed abusing a woman's body in such a depraved fashion. She knew that protesting was of little use, but she could not stop herself from shaking her head from side to side and feebly imploring, "Please ...no ... I beg you." "Then talk, mija! Where's my fucking money?" "Please ... I know nothing ... I have told you so all night ... Please ... Just go ... I will say nothing." Ernie Gibbs squinted through his good eye and chuckled. "That's OK, sweetheart. You can't hold out much longer. Go ahead and get started, Jackson. I reckon I saw me something in the kitchen that'll loosen her pretty little tongue oncet you finish workin' on her sweet tits!" Ernie gave each of Teresa's cane-ravaged nipples a nasty twist before turning on his heel, and winking at his sinister sidekick as Slocum began uncoiling a a length of white cord.... ******** As he moved toward the kitchen Ernie's thoughts turned to the bizarre story Jack had related to him across a campfire, a few nights after their flight from the Wilson Ranch.... {for the full story, see "The Outlaw's Revenge" chapter 13} In his deep, rasping voice Jack had recounted what had transpired in the hours after Honey Wilson had gotten loose from her bonds in the middle of the night, and had accidentally shot Ernie during a struggle for his gun. How the delicious young blonde had left Ernie Gibbs lying unconscious alongside the corral gate, while she had begun to run, naked as a jaybird, toward the haven of the Dunbar ranch a few miles down the road. That lone gunshot had roused Jack Slocum from a deep, half-drunken sleep. After determining that his partner was unconscious but alive, he had angrily set off after Honey Wilson atop his black stallion, Cyclone. He had finally caught up to her at daybreak, when she was only a few hundred yards from safety, in a field studded with prickly chaparral. ******* Jack had paused then to light one of old man Wilson's cigars in the campfire, and he had taken a long swig from a bottle of stolen bourbon, before continuing with the story. He went on to tell how pissed off he had been at bein' woken in the middle of the goddamn night to chase after their escaped prisoner, and how he had vowed, as he tracked Honey down, to make the blonde tease pay dearly for disturbing his sleep. When he'd finally caught up to the long-legged beauty and lassoed her from behind, Jack had gagged her and tied her hands behind her, giving her gorgeous peaches-and-cream melons an extra bit of jut, not that her youthfully firm knockers had needed it. And then he had taken some black rope, not much thicker than twine, from his saddlebag and started looping it around Honey's luscious, pink-nippled breasts. Normally Jack Slocum wasn't much of a talker, but as he began to recount the details of Honey' recapture, Ernie found himself listening breathlessly. Him and Jack had shared a lot of adventures with more fine-lookin' women than Ernie could count, but somehow he'd never been around to see one of Jack's tit-ropings. As Jack continued his story, Ernie's cock slowly began to swell in his filthy dungarees, until it was hard as a hunk of fool's gold. ******** Jack had related how he'd wound the black rope as snugly as he could around Honey's pinkening pleasure-globes. He had tightened the cords mercilessly, until the faint bluish veins in her breasts stood out, and the numerous scratches that Honey had sustained while running for her life through the brush of that lonely field, had begun to seep tiny trails of scarlet. He told how the voluptuous blonde had looked at her deliciously swollen and pain-wracked breasts in agonized disbelief. ******** Black Jack had paused in mid-story, to take another long pull at the bourbon he had swiped from the Wilson ranch. Ernie remember how his pard had stared deeply into the eerie glow of the campfire, as if trying to preserve forever, in his mind's eye, the erotic events he was describing. Ernie had squirmed awkwardly during this brief interval, his prick pulsing painfully against the too-tight crotch of his pants. After lazily blowing a couple of smoke-rings at the crackling embers, Jack had gone on to recount how Honey's bound and bulging tits had reminded him of the sweet, round grapefruits he'd picked as a boy. Jack had chuckled gloatingly as he remembered the look on Honey's horrified face when he'd told her how he used to like to take a firm, ruby-red grapefruit in each of his big hands and squeeze 'em until the juice ran out of 'em. When he told Ernie how he had filled his hands with Honey's tightly-roped knockers and crushed them between his powerful fingers, just like he had done with those long-ago grapefruits, Ernie had almost come in his dingy dungarees. Jack had told him how he had tried to lift the lovely blonde by her stiff, swollen nipple-buds, and then, after failing in that attempt, he'd given her creamy jugs a ferocious slap with the hard-knuckled back of his hand. How Honey had slumped to her knees in agony on the dusty trail, and how he had picked her up and back-handed her swollen, tightly-bound tits again. Then Black Jack had taken the long leads from her breast ropes, and hitched 'em to Cyclone's saddle horn. The black stallion had pulled the young blonde beauty by her trussed-up love-gourds the whole two miles back to the secluded swimmin' hole on the Wilson Ranch. Jack had followed on foot, occasionally hurrying Honey along with a stinging flick of his whip across her bare back, her rounded buttocks or her long, strong thighs. When they had reached the pond Jack had untied Honey, so that she could clean herself up a little. After she'd washed her hair and bathed her nude body until it sparkled in the morning sun, he had jumped her again, slamming her down on the soft grass along the edge of the tiny lake and then throwing himself down on top of her. A brutal struggle with the athletic blonde had ensued. At one point Honey had almost broken free, and had kicked him squarely in the face, breaking his nose and causing his blood to gush everywhere. Ignoring his pain, Jack had vengefully evened the score by pulling her down again and cramming his choking horse-cock down Honey Wilson's throat until she could scarcely breathe. Then he'd finished off the enjoyable matinee by planting his hairy ass on Honey's rib cage, and using the side of his big hands to crush her succulent tits together while his thumbs and forefingers abused her taut nipples. Then he'd rammed his huge erection through the soft curves of Honey's cleavage endlessly, until his sperm-heavy cojones, sore from a hundred delicious collisions with Honey's firm young breasts, shot their viscous load into her beautiful face and onto her blood-spattered treasures. When Black Jack Slocum had finished his narrative and rolled over to get some shut-eye, Ernie had lain there under the stars, his cock throbbing, visualizing in his mind's eye each incident in Jack's erotic adventure, reliving it vicariously, wishing that he could have been there to be part of it. When Jack's snoring had grown regular, he had undone his fly and stroked himself into an intense orgasm, tantalized by visions of black rope tightening inexorably around Honey Wilson's superb breasts. He could almost see her tasty nipples standing out like pink rivets, and he could almost hear her moans of anguish echoing across the vast deserted prairie....
Chapter XVII Breasts in Bondage Ernie, who had been leaning against the kitchen table for a minute or two staring blankly into space enjoying his erotic daydream, snapped himself back to alertness. He chided himself for drifting off into a fantasy, no matter how pleasurable, when the real thing -- the voluptuous Teresa Martinez -- was waiting in the next room, her man-teasing lust-globes by now no doubt protruding as boldly from a Jack Slocum breast bondage as Honey Wilson's had from hers. Impatiently he located the articles he had come for and began to head back to the bar area of the cantina, more intent than ever on making the thieving Latina reveal where she had stashed the money she and her brothers had stolen from him. Meanwhile Jack, true to his reputation, had wasted no time. Despite Teresa's pleas for mercy, he had taken the same long length of thin, white cord they had used on Teresa earlier, and set to work. But, just as he had had trouble tying Honey's slippery tits, at first, because they had been spattered with hot grease earlier that same night, Teresa's moist breasts were still glistening wetly as a result of her dousings in the tub and the cord refused to 'bite' properly. Black Jack Slocum had used a few handfuls of coarse West Texas sand to get rid of the slickness on Honey's boobs, and get 'em ready for ropin', but there was no sand in the cantina. But then Jack had an inspiration; diving into Ernie's knapsack he pulled out the fifteen-foot length of thick rope that Ernie had presented as an option. It was the heavy type of rope that boatmen used to moor riverboats to a dock -- an inch or more in diameter, and irritatingly coarse. Jack hacked off a two-foot chunk of the thick rope, while he eye-balled Teresa's slippery breasts. Her proud, mahogany-tipped nipples stabbed the air defiantly. "OK, Teresita," Jack grinned sadistically as he stepped behind her and reached around to give her a good look at the length of rope. "This'll get them titties nice and dry!" he growled, and then he took the rope in both hands and slid it into the crease formed by the undercurve of her breasts. Then, lifting first one arm and then the other, and using the same sort of sawing motion one might use with a bath towel, Jack scraped the prickly rope back and forth against the tender undersides of Teresa's love-mounds. Wincing, Teresa pulled away from the cruel embrace of the coarse rope. 'What's the matter, sweetie -- my little bath towel here ain't feminine enough for you? Well, I'm gonna dry your tits off, Teresa, so I can rope 'em up nice and purty for my pard. It's up to you, darlin'. We can wipe 'em dry with this," and Jack held up the coarse rope. "Or I can dry 'em off with this." Slocum reached into his shirt pocket, and pulled out a match stick. Teresa, her hands bound tightly behind her, could do little but back away from him, shaking her head fearfully, until a pair of barstools in her path prevented her from retreating any more. Jack followed her, a sinister grin on his face. When he was within arm's length, he swept the match across a rough wooden table top, and watched as the tip of the Lucifer burst into flame. He held the match up in front of Teresa's face to let her see its hungry little tongue, and then he casually lowered his hand until the match was positioned about two inches below Teresa's ardent left nipple, its tiny triangle of flame licking upward hungrily, eager to catch the perky brown bud in its fiery embrace. Teresa shook her head wildly, "No ... please ... not el fuego...." "You gonna be a good girl, then, and hold still while I dry you off?" Teresa looked down at her nipple, which seemed to surge saucily upward with a life of its own, in its desire to escape the flaming match. Then she looked up to see Black Jack Slocum smiling sardonically down at her. " Si ... si ... I ... I will ... hold still. Por favor ... please ...do not burn me." "Glad you're seein' things my way now, mija" Jack smirked as he blew out the match. "But jes' so's you don't forget .... " Jack's long arm reached out and touched the crinkly roseate of Teresa's left breast with the smoking match-tip. "Oh, Goddddddddd.!!!" Teresa moaned, as she tried to twist away, overturning one of the barstools, but Jack nimbly spoiled her attempts to escape, grabbing a handful of her ebony hair and holding the spent Lucifer to the underside of her nipple until its once-fiery fury had cooled. "No," Teresa panted. "No mas ... please." "Well, you gonna hold still for the rope or ain'tcha?" "Si ... si I will. But please ... no more matches" "Well you best hold still, Jack growled, "cuz next time I ain't putting the match out first!' The tall gunslinger reached for the heavy rope again, and spun the dark-skinned beauty around, smashing her naked thighs into the bar stool. Then, holding an end of the rope in each hand, he positioned the rope against her ripe melons an eyelash below her dark breast-tips, and began to saw the rope back and forth across Teresa's tender breast-flesh. Teresa groaned as the painful friction of the rope seemed to flay the skin from her breasts. Her body screamed at her to try to elude the bristling hemp, but her mind feared the flame of Jack's matches even more than the abrading rope. And so she stood there and endured the abuse as Black Jack dried her tawny mounds by deftly working the rough fibers of the hawser across every inch of her tender breast-flesh. When Slocum was satisfied that Teresa's dark-nippled lust-globes were sufficiently dry for the bondage ropes to bite properly, Jack tossed the thick rope aside. He retrieved the thin rope and began coiling the pale, white quarter-inch cord around Teresa's delectable breasts. Jack's craftsman-like hands moved back and forth between her mocha-hued melons, encasing them tighter and tighter in a painful hempen cocoon. He worked quickly, but not so quickly that he did not take the time to pause at each encirclement of a succulent breast to jerk every last millimeter of slack from her breast bindings. Each time Jack yanked at the ends of the ropes, tightening the stranglehold on her love-globes, Teresa moaned in agony. Jack looked up for a moment as Ernie re-entered the bar, but then El Raton got a sudden glint in his eye, reversed direction and returned to the kitchen. Jack could hear the unmistakable sound of the crackling logs in the dwindling kitchen fire being prodded back into life. "What the fuck is the crazy little bastard up to now?" wondered Jack. "We ain't got no time to cook no fucking breakfast!" Jack finished tying Teresa's other breast, pulling the ends so tightly that Teresa, for her part, could only stare at her painfully swollen lust-mounds in suffering and chagrin. The thin cord bit fiercely into the base of each of her pleasure-globes and Slocum had tied a Gordian knot at the precise epicenter of the figure eight, a knot which seemed to draw the cords all the tighter around her tender flesh. Who would have believed that there were men cruel enough and ingenious enough to think of such a hellish way to mistreat a woman? And who would have believed that there were men would find the molding of her beautifully-shaped breasts into bulging balls of tit-flesh so captivating? Just then Ernie returned from the kitchen, with one hand concealed behind his back. His eyes were ablaze with ... what? ... lust? ... fury? ... madness? The grotesque little man took a long look at Jack's handiwork, licking his thin lips, enthralled by the way the tough cord gripped the bases of Teresa's cane-marked breasts, and delighted by the way the ropes thrust her stiff-nippled spheres of breast-flesh forward for his enjoyment. "Ooooh, yeah, sweetheart," Ernie enthused. "Those babies were definitely fit to be tied." Ernie slapped his thigh, tickled by his own joke. "Turn around for me, mija. Nice and slow. So I can get a good luck at them juicy tits!" Blushing furiously, but knowing that resistance was worse than foolish, Teresa did a slow, sensuous pirouette while Ernie squinted appreciatively at the way the rope and the knots bit into her mouthwatering melons, hoping to learn the secret of Slocum's wizardry. "Geesus, Jackson, if you ain't got them beauties lookin' mighty fine, I'm Jesse Fucking James! Hot Damn!! I swear to God these must be the sweetest pair 'a chi-chis this side of the Rio Grande." Ernie slid behind Teresa and cupped her bulging man-pleasers in his gnarled fingers. "Hell, I always said you was the best man with a rope I ever seen, Black Jack. Mmmmm-mm," he crooned as he thumbed the dark crests of Teresa's swollen breasts and pressed his dungaree-covered erection against her buttock cleft. "Damn it to hell," Ernie babbled as his hands roamed freely over Teresa's nude breasts, "if her tits don't look like they're fixing to pop! Watch out our Mexican cutie don't hit you in the eye with one of them nips when they do, Jackson!" he chuckled. "Damn! They're purty as a picture, ain't they?" Ernie spun Teresa and slapped a bulging breast lightly with his left hand. "Firm as a side of beef, but tender as a fillie meen-yon. Nice work, Big Jack!" But then the smile of delight vanished and an evil leer stole across the Weasel's disfigured face. "But you'd better wise up and tell me where my loot is, mija, less'n you want me and Jack to work on these chi-chi's some more!" he rasped as he smacked her breast again, this time hard enough to draw an audible gasp of pain from the dark-eyed beauty. Ernie wiped a stream of spittle from the corner of his mouth as he admired Teresa's breast bondage. By some arcane architectural artistry Jack had woven his cocoon of rope underneath her splendid breasts so skillfully that the cord seemed to lift them up for his delectation. They looked just perfect for what he had in mind. "Five more minutes, Big Fella. Five more minutes, and we'll be outa here. With my damn money!" Jack frowned. "You're gonna have'ta make do with four minutes, Ernesto. The first minute's mine."
Chapter XVIII The Texas Thunderbolt Jack walked over behind the bar and picked up the ancient undersized broom that he'd seen Teresa use to sweep the floor when he'd first come in to the cantina. As he expected from its appearance, it felt as if been home to a colony of termites for a generation, but even though most of its insides seemed to have been hollowed out, the broomstick offered intriguing possibilities. With a quick snapping motion, Jack snapped the broom handle across a bony knee, breaking off the sweeping end and leaving himself with a jagged-ended, yard-long club. Jack smacked the slender broom handle against his palm, as he walked back toward Teresa, who was trembling noticeably. Her blood ran cold as she considered the possibility that her reptilian-eyed tormentor was going to use this new weapon on her defenseless body. Jack was grinning like a Cheshire Cat. There was no way in hell he was gonna let his loud-mouthed sidekick have first crack at Teresa's delicious orbs after he had gone to all the trouble of wrappin' em up in those tight white ribbons! Teresa looked from one desperado to the other in desperation -- the cane's bite had been appallingly painful before; the thought of Black Jack Slocum whipping her bound breasts with the wooden rod he was slapping against his palm was inconceivable. "I said, 'the first minute's mine'" Jack repeated coldly. "That OK with you, Ern?" Ernie looked a little glum, but assented. "Yeah, sure, Jack." Ernie, as always, was deferential to the senior partner of the firm of Slocum & Gibbs. "Back that sweet ass 'a yers right up against the bar, mija," Jack snarled. "Yer gonna need it to hold you up." Black Jack Slocum bared his fangs at Teresa as she tremulously retreated until her cane-marked buttocks pressed up against one of the barstools. Ernie gave her asscheeks a quick squeeze as he kicked the wooden stool out of the way, and then Jack put the jagged tip of the broken broom handle into Teresa's belly button and pushed her backwards until her hips were flush against the edge of the bar. Ernie had overcome his initial irritation at Jack's taking over; this promised to be good! With every passing second, Teresa's breast bondage seemed to make her tits swell up bigger and harder and rounder as they mushroomed boldly outward from the constricting breast-ropes. "I'm fixin' to take me a little batting practice, Teresa," Jack grinned. "Less'n you decide you wanna tell my third base coach, here, what you done with his money?" It hadn't occurred to Ernie before, but in their trussed-up state, Teresa's boobs did somewhat resemble a seamless pair of tawny, over-sized baseballs. He was itchin' to get his own hands on those babies, now that Jack had cinched 'em up so nice. But tonight, as always, Black Jack was batting lead-off. Teresa's dark eyes were glazed; she stared at Jack's weapon blankly, as if she could not credit the evidence of her brown eyes. But she did not, or could not, speak. Jack stood slightly to Teresa's right and a few feet back -- far enough away to take a nice full swing. "Batter up!" Ernie called out. "Step right up to the plate, partner,' Ernie cheered. "Let's see you lay into them beisbols! They called him 'Joltin' Jack, The Texas Thunderbolt', back in east Texas, mija. Sweetest swing you ever saw!" Teresa's tear-filled dark eyes were aghast with horrified disbelief. "No...no.. you can't.." "Yeah, but I'm a little outa practice, Ern. But let's see if I can't smack me a double," Jack grinned as he leered down at the bloated, brown-tipped spheres that protruded so provocatively from the tit-choking ropes. "Play ball!" Ernie barked. The words had hardly left his mouth when Jack swept his hollowed cudgel back with one hand and, then swung it in an upward arc toward the taut undercurves of Teresa's breasts with a swing worthy of the great Cap Anson himself. WHUPPPPPP!!!, the improvised bat embedded itself deep in Teresa's abused pleasure-mounds, its jagged end raking the side of her left breast. "Aaaaaaaaiiiiiiiiieeeeeaahhhh!!" Teresa screamed, as she sank to her knees in agony. "On your feet, mija." Jack growled. "Hell, I only got a piece of that one. Let's see if I can't make better contact this time. On your feet, I said! Andale!" As their tortured prisoner struggled to her feet, Ernie noted that Jack's swing had opened up a red-edged gash just below the nipple on Teresa's left breast. "Yeahhh, you got some good wood on that one, Jackson," Ernie enthused, as a second thin stream of crimson began to flow. "But you got under that one a little. Let's see you straighten out that swing this time." Jack gave his diminutive sidekick a toothy grin. Then, like a good batsman, he practiced his stroke by slowly taking the blood-stained rod back on a horizontal plane and then deliberately guiding it forward. He let the wicked broom-handle kiss the tips of Teresa's rigid brown nipples, daubing them scarlet, for an instant, before drawing it back again along the same plane. Twice more he repeated this motion, grooving his stroke. The tips of Teresa's young breasts shivered as if she were naked in a hail-storm. "Hold still, darlin'," Jack warned, "Or I'm gettin' out the matches again." Teresa took a deep breath and tried to compose herself - anything, even this, was better than the bright-burning lucifers. "That's better," Jack acknowledged and the he took the rod all the way back, extending his long and powerful right arm to its fullest, before sweeping it forward with a savagery that would have propelled a baseball to the deepest reaches of a Texas ballfield. "WHHUPPPPPP!!!!" This time the makeshift rod unleashed every scintilla of its violent energy on the very centers of Teresa's breasts, hammering her dark chocolate nipple-buds violently back into the surrounding breastflesh. "AAAAAAAUGGGGHHHHHAAAAAHH!!!" Teresa screamed the screams of the damned, as she absorbed the atrocious punishment before crumpling slowly toward the floor, just managing to brace her fall by leaning over one of the barstools. Amazingly, though, despite the savagery of Jack's blow, Teresa's brown and battered nipple-nuggets sprang back to life with a youthful resilience that was remarkable to behold. Jack had to give her credit. He had ripped into Teresa's lovely breasts with everything he had, but still she refused to talk. He was more than ever convinced that Teresa didn't have Ernie's dough. But Ernie wasn't so sure. And he'd been concealing something behind his back ever since he had come out of the kitchen....
Chapter 19 Ernie's Revenge "On your feet, sweetie," Ernie balked at the fallen Latina. "We ain't quite done with you yet. And we won't be until I get my dough! On yer feet, I said!" Jack's second savage blow to her rope-encased breasts had left Teresa crumpled over a barstool trying to catch her breath, waiting for the pain that raged through them to subside. Supporting herself on the stool, Teresa once again pulled herself upright, her ebony hair wild around her head and shoulders. Her face was streaked with tears, her breathing ragged. "N-n-no ... please.." Ernie moved forward and used his left hand to brush Teresa's dark, wavy tresses away from her artfully bound breasts, even as his right hand produced the objects he had been hiding behind his back. Teresa stared uncomprehendingly at Ernie's tobacco-stained fingers as the Weasel rattled two crude metal forks against each other. He slipped one of them into his shirt pocket, and gripped the other one tightly in his grimy hand. "Hold her steady for me, Jack." Teresa squirmed helplessly as Black Jack Slocum's powerful hands tightened on her upper arms. Despite her struggles, Slocum held her in his iron grasp as El Raton lifted the fork to the level of her swollen right breast. Playfully, he tried to insert a tine of the fork beneath the ropes which encircled Teresa's bulging pain-melons, but Jack had done his work well -- the ropes were far too tight. "Where's the money, darlin'?" Ernie whispered fiercely again. When Teresa shook her head despairingly, Ernie snarled and captured her cane-creased right nipple between his ragged yellow fingernails, and pulled it toward him. Then, as Teresa writhed in pain, he held the fork horizontally so that its prongs curved toward him, and then mashed the edges of its tines against the tender bud. Jack could see clearly that Teresa's dark nipple, in its engorged state, was slightly larger than the gap between the tines of the peculiarly-shaped fork. But that didn't stop Ernie the Weasel from trying to trap the swollen lust-nugget between them. "It ain't never gonna fit, Ern," said Jack shaking his head doubtfully. "I'll make the sonofabitch fit, Jack. You just watch me!" "No it won't.... Stop!! Aaaiiiiee!! Please ... Dios!.... Stop, for God's ... Aaaagghhhh!!" Heedless of Teresa's tortured cries, Ernie had twisted and pulled and mashed the tender nugget until he had squeezed it into the narrow opening between the middle two tines of the fork. "Nice, Ern," Black Jack Slocum admitted grudgingly. He wasn't much for compliments, but there was no denying that Ernie had used his damn-fool head for once. Not only were Teresa's boobs imprisoned in his own fiendishly tight nooses of torment, but now the slightly over-sized fork held the lovely Latina's love-buds in a Mexican deathlock. Drenched from the water and still shivering with cold, Teresa's eyes rolled in agony, and her mouth dripped the saliva of the damned onto her tortured breasts, even as her dark, distended breast tip was imprisoned in this fiendish vise. Bu Teresa's nipple pain had only begun. Moments later, the grinning gargoyle was poised, ready to force her deliciously taut left nipple between the tines of the other fork. The evil little man paused again to demand, "Where's the money?" When Teresa shook her head, 'No', Ernie gave Jack a knowing wink, as if to say, 'I'm kinda glad she's making this difficult, partner. Cause I'm enjoying the hell out of this!' "No....no....! Ooouuuhhhhhh!! Ayuda-me, Guadalupe," Teresa prayed to the Virgin, as Ernie the Weasel began to crush her blood-stained left nipple between the unyielding metal tines of the second fork. Teresa erupted into a wail that might have woken the souls in the graveyard across the street. Ernie's exertions caused another trail of blood to billow forth from the laceration below her crinkly aureole. Teresa could only watch in horror as Ernie gave her a cruel smile and bent and licked at her breast-blood. And then, seeming to like the flavor of her coconut-scented flesh, he buried his crooked yellow teeth in Teresa's drum-taut right breast. "Aooauuugggghhhhhh!!" Teresa gasped as Ernie's fangs dug into her tender flesh. A moment later the grim-faced little man pulled away and renewed his relentless effort to force her other swollen brown nugget into the too-small opening, and succeeded, thanks to the application of brutal force, at the anatomical equivalent of putting a round peg in a square hole. Once both of Teresa's excruciatingly sore nipple-nuggets had been safely secured between the ends of the tines, Ernie began working them deeper into the gaps between the tines. Jack watched, torn between his desire to head out for the relative safety of the Arizona border, and his grudging admiration for the punishment Ernie was inflicting on their voluptuous captive's tightly-bound breasts. As Ernie worked the dreadful fork back and forth, each millimeter of progress brought fresh waves of pain to Teresa's tortured breasts. And fresh cries of pain from her too-dry lips. The other once tiny cane-cut had widened a little more, too; the thin trail of blood lengthened across the upper contour of her sculpted right breast. Finally, Ernie succeeded in wedging both bullet-hard nipples right up against the base of the tines. And then, with a crazed expression in his eyes and a hearty "Yeaahh!!" the evil little gnome gripped the handles of both forks and twisted them downward, exerting terrible torque on the captive nuggets, bringing new agony to every nerve cell in Teresa's mouthwatering melons. "Eeeaaghhh!!!" Teresa screamed in despair. The trail of blood lengthened still more, forming a crimson arc that slowly spread across the upper curve of her breast. "Talk, bitch!! Or I swear, I'll I twist 'em off!" She was near breaking now; she had to be. Ernie let go of one of the forks, allowing it to dangle from her breast, so that he could give the other one a vicious, nearly 180-degree turn. Teresa cried out in the agonized scream of a wounded animal. But there was no friendly ear to hear and no hint of mercy in Black Jack's reptilian countenance or the rheumy greenish eyes of Ernie the Weasel. "Was this how it would end?" she wondered. And then she heard the bell. Ernie and Jack both looked up in surprise at the unmistakable sound of a bell ringing. Ringing loudly, even though it was still a little before sunrise. "What the f... ?" Ernie asked, speechless for once in his life. The bell tolled again, twice, deeply, sonorously, in rapid succession. "The church," Jack whispered slowly. Across the street. It must be coming from the church." "Can't be. You saw it, Jack" said Ernie. The damn place is abandoned. Weeds five feet high all around it. It don't look like anybody's been there for years. And besides, it's still fuckin' dark out." "What's goin' on, Teresa?" asked Jack. "What's with the bell?" "It is the ... the campana grande - the great bell - in the belltower overlooking the ... como se dice ... the ... the cemetery." "What about the fucking cemetery?" demanded Ernie the Weasel as he grabbed for the forks and gave Teresa's beautiful breasts another vicious wrench. "Agghhhhh!" she cried again in agony. It felt as if the sadistic outlaw was trying to rip her firm young breasts from her body. "It is ..." she struggled to get the words out, "El Dia de Los Muertos." "Speak American, whore!" Ernie answered, as he jerked the forks violently again. "Ohhh ... godddddddd! I can't take any more." The churchbell clanged again, just then, causing both men to look around nervously. Jack turned away for a moment to look out the cantina window toward the ghostly mission. "Unnngggggghhhh!! Teresa cried out once more, as Gibbs gave the forks another wrench, before he relented for a moment, allowing her to catch her breath. "Talk, mija!" "It ... is the ... Day of the Dead," she choked out through her pain. "Actualmente," she panted, "Today is El Dia de Todos los Santos -- Oooouuwwwwwww!!!," she groaned in anguish as Ernie twisted a fork with his free hand when she lapsed into Spanish. "You call it the Day of All the Saints, I think." "What's all that got to do with that damn bell-ringing in a deserted church?" Teresa struggled to catch her breath and to find the English words. "The padre must be ringing la campana grande to ... summon the people. Here we ... honor the dead by ... visiting their graves. On the Day of All the Saints we .... remember Los Angelitos -- Nooo... Dios!!.....stop!!.. por favor ...ooowwwwwww!!" she moaned as Ernie took hold of both horizontal forks and gave them ninety degrees of torque. "I mean the .... 'little angels' - all of the children ... who have died. There was an ... epidemico of ... como se dice -- cholera? eight or nine years ago," she continued haltingly. "Almost every ... familia ... around here lost a child. Today the people will come to ... decorate the graves, to show los ninos we... remember. And later there will be a fiesta. For two days." "A fiesta for dead brats? Stupid Mexicans!" "We ... celebrate their lives, and because they are with La Santisima Virgen de Guadalupe now, y con Dios ... with God." Jack looked at Ernie. "C'mon, Ern. We gotta get outa here -- it sounds like there's gonna be a hundred Mexicans swarming around this place in no time. We'd better make ourselves scarce, pronto." "But my money!" Ernie's eyes looked positively deranged. "Damn that fucking bell! It's making my head hurt." He held a hand to his disfigured temple. "Fuck your money, stupid -- it ain't gonna do you any damn good, if you're swinging from a rope. Bring one of those chairs back over here." Ernie quickly retrieved the chair that he had sat in the night he'd watched Teresa dance. He dragged it back into a corner where it was out of sight from the windows, expecting Jack to push their prisoner toward him. But instead Black Jack Slocum inserted his powerful right hand under the knotted double strand of rope that formed the midpoint of the figure-eight of white cord that linked Teresa's magnificently bound breasts. Jack gripped the strands of rope tightly; Teresa prepared herself to be dragged halfway across the room by her breast-ropes. But what followed was even worse. Much worse. With a sudden powerful jerk of his muscular right arm, and a lusty "YEAAHHHH!!" the rangy desperado lifted Teresa directly up, about six or eight inches off the floor. So that he could look directly into her beautiful brown eyes when she felt the entire weight of her body being borne by her luscious melons, so ingeniously encased in Black Jack Slocum's breast harness. Ernie watched in awe, both in unfeigned jealousy of Black Jack Slocum's herculean strength, and with unfeigned admiration at how with one abrupt movement his partner had increased the pain of Teresa's breast bondage by orders of magnitude. The agony was epochal, excruciating. And Teresa's screams did full justice to her anguish as she erupted into a series of agonized squeals. Her long, lithe legs danced wildly in the air, reaching desperately but unavailingly for a grip on terra firma. For second after interminable second Jack held her high, glancing in turn at Teresa's tawny globes almost as if he were waiting for them to burst from the horrendous pressure, and then back into her tear-filled brown eyes. For her part she stared back at him, thinking that Satan himself could not have eyes any blacker than those of her tormentor. And that the pangs of hell could hardly be worse than the agonies she had endured this night. Mercifully, Jack's arm finally began to tire from his prodigious weight-lifting feat, and he began to carry her across the room by her tits. When he got to the chair Ernie had positioned he threw Teresa roughly into the chair. Jack was lightning fast with a rope; in less than two minutes, Teresa was gagged and bound hand and foot to the chair in the corner. "There, that oughta keep you outa sight for a coupla hours," Jack observed. And then he retrieved the big blue knapsack from the bedroom and hurriedly stuffed the quirt, Ernie's four-tongued whip and the two canes back into it. He closed the bag and stalked quickly to the door, intent on a quick departure. "One more minute, Jack. Please! She's ready to break, I know she is." Outside, the bell, which had been silent for a minute or two, began to ring again. And without waiting for an answer, the half-crazed little man dashed off to the kitchen. Jack noticed that each time Ernie strode into the kitchen, Teresa's brown eyes seemed to follow him fearfully. As well they might, Jack figured, since each time he returned from there, he seemed to bring fresh instruments of torture. And this time Ernie returned carrying a carving knife, the blade pointed down, held safely away from his right leg. Ernie had chosen the biggest knife in the kitchen. A nine-inch blade attached to a heavy five-inch-long wooden handle. Jack was pissed. Ernie knew damn well about his superstitious conviction that cutting or scarring a woman permanently would bring him more of the same bad luck it had brought him in the past. "C'mon, Ern. Now! Let's go!" "I ain't gonna cut her, Jack!" There was a greenish glow in Ernie's feverish eyes. "I just want my damn money." And Ernie held the knife out, with the blade extended. And for the first time, Jack and Teresa understood what crazy Ernie had been up to. The last inch of the gleaming iron carving knife was glowing hot and red from the fire in the kitchen that Ernie had started earlier. It struck Jack that it really wasn't about the money any more; it was a battle of wills between tormentor and the tormented. But what was the point? If Teresa had had the lousy fifty bucks, she'd have talked long ago. Wouldn't she? "Ernie, now! Dammit!" But Ernie was standing in front of his trussed up prisoner, grinning psychotically, the tip of the glowing knife some six inches from Teresa's rope-choked breasts. "Where is it, sweetheart?" Ernie cackled insanely. "Where's my dough?" Ernie noticed that Teresa's dark eyes were looking wildly, disorientedly, over his shoulder. "I gotta hand it to you, darlin', you got guts." And then with excruciating deliberation, intent on savoring every intense millisecond of the moment, the grinning gargoyle slowly moved the red-hot knife toward the red-streaked roundness of Teresa's plump right breast. "Where, honey?" the sibilant voice demanded again. "Or am I gonna have'ta turn these," and he jiggled her left breast with his free hand, "into knockers al carbon?" as he emitted a maniacal high-pitched giggle. "Noooooooo!!!!!" she screamed, "Not there... please God .. don't burn me there..." Teresa watched frantically as the sizzling blade inched its way closer. Five inches ... four inches ... three inches, -- she could feel the heat now -- two inches -- her sensitive nipple, though still untouched, was baking from the nearness of the knife. Teresa opened her mouth to... And just at that moment, the church bell, which had been tolling all the while, suddenly began to ring with new-found fervor, faster and louder, faster and louder. A fraction of a second later, with all her hopes and dreams collapsing about her, Teresa saw a long, black-clad arm reach out and slap the knife away, sending it spinning across the bare wooden floor of the cantina, its red-hot tip sizzling against the floorboards. "I said, now, dammit, you crazy son-of-a-bitch!" Jack's black lizard-eyes, so deadly calm and cold all night long, were brighter now, and looked wildly about him as the churchbell pealed still louder. "She don't know nothin' or she'd a told us long ago. Besides that, you're gonna jinx us both. I'm ridin' outa this three-peso town right now; if you wanna stay here and swing for rapin' her, that's your look-out." Jack angrily turned and stalked toward the outer door of the cantina; he looked out to see that Cyclone, his black stallion, was waiting patiently outside. Ernie, who was visibly shaking with ... what? Wrath? Excitement? Frustration? watched as Jack walked toward the door. Jack turned to face him, his eyes once again imperious, and said, "Well?" Ernie, wearing a rueful but rebellious expression, walked over and picked the knife up. "All right, Jack, I'm comin'." But as he passed the chair where Teresa sat, naked and bound, trussed hand and foot, he saw, or thought he saw, a faint trace of contempt in her lustrous brown eyes. In a flash Ernie Gibbs had adroitly flipped the knife handle in his hand and caught it in stabbing position. He stood above his helpless nude victim for a long second, his loathsome face a hideous mask of hatred, his eyes wild, tiny bubbles of froth seeping from the corners of his mouth. Ernie held the knife cocked at shoulder level, ready to plunge. A moment later, he issued a bestial growl and stabbed downward, his elbow moving forward in a swift and dreadful arc, bringing the tip of the still-sizzling carving knife flashing down between Teresa's widespread legs. Teresa Martinez screamed for the last time, as Ernie Gibbs snarled again and continued onward toward the door where Jack was waiting. But then Teresa heard the churchbell ring, and realized that, somehow, she was still alive. The trembling young woman looked down at the knife lodged deeply in the wooden seat of the chair, faint curls of smoke rising from it. So close had it come to her invitingly raven-fringed pussy that a few stray wisps of pubic hair were melting from their momentary contact with the fast-moving blade. Ernie had almost reached the door, when he turned suddenly, and ignoring Jack Slocum's disgusted, "Geesus, Ernie!!" walked back over toward his captive. Despite everything, the beatings, the rapes, the tortures, Teresa's was an inextinguishable beauty. Her hair was wet and wild, her eyes tear-streaked, her body bathed in pearls of perspiration and streaks of scarlet, and criss-crossed with angry marks. But her features, her eyes, her cheekbones, her lips, were as lovely as ever, and her body was still ravishingly desirable, notwithstanding the ropes that still choked her perfect young breasts and the dreadful forks that ravaged her flinty brown nipples. "I still think you're lying about the money, you Mexican cunt," Ernie the Weasel growled as he gave both forked nipples a last vindictive wrench, as Teresa stoically absorbed this final torment. "But I guess we got our money's worth. And you keep your mouth shut about this -- or you'll never see your fuckin' 'hermanos' again!" Ernie was bluffing; he and Jack had no time or intention of returning to the cabin where Jack had tied up Teresa's brothers. Last night, after Jack had bound them securely and left for the cantina, Ernie had pistol-whipped both of them both into unconsciousness in his quest to get his money back. That was why he had felt so sure the girl was lying -- her gutless brothers had blamed everything on her from the beginning. But when they came to, they'd be able to free themselves eventually. Ernie joined Jack at the door, and then, after a quick glance around, the two desperados slipped outside into the pre-dawn dimness. Day was just minutes from breaking as Jack leapt astride Cyclone, and Ernie mounted his own horse, and they headed north, bound for the relative safety of the Arizona Territory. Author's note: I hope you've enjoyed the story so far. If you have, please do me the favor of hanging in there for one more chapter and a brief epilogue, even though Jack and Ernie appear to have ridden off into the sunrise. I think you'll be glad that you did. Much obliged, Big Jake
Chapter 20 Deliverance The continuous pealing of the bell was somehow comforting as Teresa struggled vainly with her bonds, even though her breasts were throbbing from the pain caused by the diabolical forks. She prayed that her swollen nipples might somehow shrink, so that she could free her breasts from the forks's talons, but the pressure of the prongs was unrelenting. Teresa puzzled over the paradox that the tender tips of her breasts, which were capable of bringing such pleasure to men, women, and babies, should have brought her so much pain. By a stroke of luck however, her breast bondage was, while painful, no longer dangerous. When Jack had lifted her by the breast carriage, and then set her down again, the strain on the ropes had evidently caused them to loosen slightly. There seemed to be no danger of tissue damage owing to loss of circulation. In her seated position, the chiles Jack had jammed inside her began to bother her again as well. But at least, she thought, the two villains were gone. She would survive. When the bell had first begun to rung, she had been sure that she was going to die, even though the men had not intended to kill her. She must remember to thank Padre Eusebio for coming to la iglesia early -- he had saved her life. It was not until El Viejo, old Hector who had accompanied her on the guitar on the night she had danced for Ernie, arrived at the cantina a short time later that she was finally freed from her bondage. The one-legged guitarist tried his best not to stare at Teresa's nakedness, but it would have taken a blind man not to notice the splendid voluptuousness of her nude body, and the tell-tale marks of rope, belt, whip, and cane that covered the front of her body. It took the old man a while to take the carving knife and hack through the efficient cocoon of ropes that secured her limbs. The old man was a bit puzzled by the labyrinth of white cord that encircled Teresa's sumptuous breasts, but at last they too were liberated, and he covered Teresa's nudity in an old serape. Plagued now only by the diabolical nipple forks, she asked Hector to bring some lard, and then, while he was out in the kitchen, she extracted the awful chiles from between her legs and threw them as far away from her as she could. When Hector returned with the lard she was able, after some difficulty, to reach under the serape, lubricate her swollen nipples and remove the punishing forks. She shushed the old man when he peppered her with questions. She would tell him the whole story later, she said, but she swore him to secrecy for the moment as she still feared for the safety of her brothers. Hector reluctantly agreed, and at her request helped her heat some water on the fire which Ernie had lit on the wooden stove. They mixed some of the heated water with some of the water in the tub that Jack had dunked her in, to prepare a primitive bath. When the tub was full of steaming water, Hector patted Teresa gently on the shoulder and gave her a quick comforting kiss on the cheek. And then he left to join the others who were beginning to arrive at the cemetery, allowing her to bathe in privacy. After gargling endlessly with salt water to remove the foul taste of the semen of los norteamericanos from her mouth, Teresa slipped the serape from her shoulders. She contrived a vinegar and water douche, which burned more than a little in the aftermath of the chiles, but it was worth it to rid her body of any trace of her ordeal. When she was finished with that intimate cleansing, she sank blessedly into the tub, after pouring in a liberal dose of a healing powder that Mama Nita, her African great-grandmother, had told her about as a little girl. Mama had jokingly called it Balm of Gilead, and told her how it had come in handy many times after the terrible floggings of the old slavery days. The steaming water was a godsend to Teresa, gently soothing the beautiful body that had been abused from neck to knees. She scrubbed every inch of skin that the animals had touched, hoping to purge her body of their foul maleness. She washed her still-damp hair twice, trying to erase the memory of those awful choking moments when her head had been immersed in the water earlier. And then she simply sat and soaked in the steaming tub for the better part of an hour, letting the heat, and Mama's restorative, comfort her aching body. When she had finally begun to feel nearly human again, instead of like a tortured animal, she rose and toweled herself dry in front of the tall mirror in the bedroom. She studied the dozens of lurid marks on her lovely body, while she brushed her shoulder-length black hair. The cane marks on her breasts, bottom, and legs were the worst; they would take some time to fade away completely. Strangely, there seemed to be only faint traces of the tall one's terrible broad belt -- what had he called it? -- Black Betsy -- yes, that was it. She dressed slowly and began putting her ransacked bedroom back together, anxious to return to some sense of normalcy. She could hear wagons full of farm workers and their families pull up across the street for the fiesta as she cleaned. The high-pitched laughter of children and the bird-like chattering of the women, old and young, rippled through the surrounding area. When she had finished cleaning the bedroom, Teresa started in on the cantina itself, re-arranging the chairs and tables, cleaning up the glass from the bottle Jack had broken, and returning the items Ernie had disturbed in his search to their proper positions. She peered out through the window now and then. The sky had cleared and healing sunshine poured in, warming her body. It promised to be a beautiful day. When she was done with the bar she turned to the kitchen which she had nervously been saving for last. Hundred of pinto beans were scattered across the floor, the result of Ernie having kicked over the half-full burlap bag that had once held fifty pounds of them. Teresa's hands trembled as she swept them up, and restored everything in the kitchen to its proper place. It was only when there was nothing else left to do that she summoned her nerve, and knelt down on the floor next to the bag of beans. She whispered a silent prayer and thrust her right hand deep into the sack. There were only about ten pounds of beans remaining in the bottom of the bag, and she breathed a long sigh of relief as her hand soon touched something solid amidst the loose rattle of the countless pinto peans. "Gracias, Guadalupe" she murmured prayerfully, as she removed the cigar box that she had hidden at the bottom of the sack of beans. Teresa looked up cautiously to assure herself that she was unobserved, and then she opened the box. It was all there. Almost two hundred dollars. The money she had been saving for three years. That she had earned by dancing for men with lustful eyes, that she had earned by enduring the touch of their filthy hands. Her ticket out of Piedras Negras. Had it been only Ernie Gibbs' fifty dollars at stake, she would not have thought twice about giving him the money. She had had to summon up reserves of courage that she didn't know she had possessed to withstand his cruel inquisition. For she would have endured almost anything rather than surrender her dream. It was just at the moment when Ernie's knife was two inches from disfiguring her beauty that she was about to confess the whereabouts of the money. And she had been spared, thank God, at the last moment, by the bellringing of Padre Eusebio. For some inexplicable reason, she had kept Ernie's money in a separate envelope -- the bills, both American and Mexican, and a few coins. She had gleefully counted the money several times last Saturday night and had mentally converted the value of the pesos into American dollars. She would never forget the total -- fifty-three dollars and seventy-five cents. Teresa set the envelope on the table and absent-mindedly returned the cigar box to its hiding place. Then she took a last quick look in the mirror to make sure that none of her bruises were visible. In her longish dress, only one or two relatively innocuous streaks on the calves of her legs were visible. Anxious to thank Padre Eusebio, she strode toward the door of the cantina. When she closed it behind her, she slapped her forehead lightly in self-reproach. She had forgotten to put the envelope with Ernie's money back in the cigar box before putting it away. Not wanting to take the time to dig into the sack of beans again, she hastily slipped the envelope into her handbag and started across the street. It was a sunny but breezy morning, and Teresa used her left hand to hold the skirt of her dress down over her bare legs as she gingerly began to make her way toward the mission, dodging the puddles that dotted the muddy street. A number of local men were busy chopping at the weeds that surrounded the old church; most of the women busied themselves tending the rain-dampened graves in the cemetery. They placed strips of cloth on the wet ground and knelt on them while they pulled weeds, and placed small wreaths of flowers next to the headstones. For two days each year, at least, the abandoned mission was beautiful once again. More than a few of the mothers and grandmothers' eyes were wet with autumnal tears as they paid their annual respects to their angelitos, the little ones that the cholera had taken from them. Each year it seemed that birds came out of nowhere for El Dia de Los Muertos; the trees around the mission were full of them, their songs bright and beautiful. Children chased each other cheerfully in their childhood games, while their mothers admonished them as mothers always do, "tenga cuidado" -- be careful. Here and there dark-eyed young maidens smiled shyly at dark-eyed young men. Teresa remembered having received her first kiss from a boy behind this very church at one such fiesta when she was 13. After last night, that fleeting embrace and chaste kiss seemed to have happened a lifetime ago. Later, las senoras would bring out the food they had brought in the wagons, and for two days there would be a fiesta grande -- it was one of the great holidays of the Mexican calendar. Just then Teresa saw Padre Eusebio, the aged Franciscan who had been their pastor in the old days. Teresa knew that he had taken the name Eusebio from Padre Eusebio Kino, the Italian-born Spanish missionary who, generations ago, had done so much for the people of the region. As she stared at his lined face, it occurred to Teresa that despite the youthful sparkle in his eyes, the old man had to be eighty now, perhaps more. The white-haired old priest was staring wistfully up at the once beautiful steeple that surged upward above the belltower. The breeze rustled his flowing brown robe. High in the sky the same breeze caused the bright morning sun to take refuge behind a patch of billowing cotton. "Buenos Dias, senorita," the padre greeted her, the warmth of his smile doing its best to take the place of the missing sun. And feliz cumpleanos! -- it is your birthday, today, is it not? Each year you grow more beautiful, Teresa. You must have had your beauty rest last night." "No, Father," she blushed, wondering what the good-hearted old padre would make of the horrors that she had undergone last night. "Pero, gracias." "It is true, my child," he chuckled lightly. "I'm sure you have to fight off the young men." Teresa returned his smile; the old man was wiser than he knew. She was grateful that he knew nothing of her dancing; her manner at the inn was quite different when one of the men brought his wife or children. At such times she was a friendly waitress, nothing more. It was only after the women and children were safe in their beds that Teresa changed into the alluring clothes and Hector's country ballads gave way to the sensuous rhythms that she danced to. "It is so sad, Teresa, is it not?" the old man asked as he gestured toward the church. "That we can no longer keep this beautiful iglesia open. Do you remember how lovely it was when you were a child? The fresh flowers on the altar. The way the flames from the candles seemed to leap upward to heaven? But," the old Franciscan whispered despondently, "since the cholera came, the people are poor. Except for Montoya and a few of the landowners. But they do not care about the church." The conversation seemed to have aged the old man ten years. Teresa noticed that his hands were trembling. He continued, "I do not think I will live to see candles on that altar again." The white-haired padre's shoulders shrunk in dejection. "Si, it is very sad, Father," Teresa replied, only half-listening. His reminiscences having been completed, Teresa took it upon herself to broach the subject that had caused her to approach him. "Padre Eusebio, I have come to thank you for arriving so early this morning. I heard the bells before dawn. They..." Teresa paused, trying to find the right words. "They meant ... a very great deal to me this morning. I ... I seemed to hear them in my soul. Gracias." The ancient, brown-robed Franciscan gave Teresa a puzzled look. "My child, you must be mistaken. The muddy roads delayed me. I did not arrive until just after dawn. In fact, I arrived here just as I saw Hector approaching your door from the other direction. I did not begin ringing the bell until then." "But Father, we..., I mean I ... heard the bells clearly. Someone else must have gone into the church before you." The priest gave her a kindly smile, and took Teresa's hand and patted it gently. "You must have been dreaming, Teresita. Or perhaps you are mistaken about the time. There was rust in the lock of the church door when I opened it. I had some difficulty turning the key. No one has been in the church since this time last year." Teresa's studied the face of the devout old man intently. He was old, but still in full command of his faculties. But if he had not rung the bells that had driven off her attackers, who had? The beautiful young woman stood there in the breeze, her dark hair swirling around her shoulders, trying to make some sense of it all. Just then a sudden gust of wind pushed the giant cumulus cloud that had been obscuring the sun to the east. Teresa felt the sun's radiance bright on her face and warm on her body. It seemed, somehow, to draw the soreness from her. She and the old priest looked up almost at the same moment; the shining steeple of the iglesia seemed to point directly at the dazzling sun. The shrill, joyous sound of small children at play echoed behind her. Teresa knew, then, that it was no human hand that had tolled the bells of Piedras Negras in the dark pre-dawn hours. The souls of the Angelitos, the little angels, had interceded for her, and spared her. Teresa felt her body trembling as she stared upward at the cross for a long moment. Then she reached out and placed a hand on the old Franciscan's shoulder. "Padre Eusebio, I have something for you." Teresa reached into her handbag and withdrew the envelope that held Ernie's money. "A few nights ago I was sweeping under a cupboard and felt the broom catch on something heavy. Somehow a man's wallet had been kicked under there and gotten wedged in the corner. There was no way to tell whose it was." Teresa took a deep breath and went on with her fabrication -- God would forgive such a lie, she felt sure. "I think it must have happened when some men from Texas passed through a few months ago. Several of them got drunk and started a brawl." Teresa glanced up at the radiant sun above. "In any event, Father Eusebio, I want you to have it. I want you to take it and reopen the iglesia here so that the people do not have to travel all the way to Magdalena each week. It is hard, especially for the old ones and the mothers with infants." Padre Eusebio sifted through the stack of bills in wonderment. "Are you sure, my child? This is a great deal of money." "Father, I'm sure it is not as much as you need. But I will," she paused, looking for the right word, "speak to Senor Montoya." Teresa remembered how the heavy-set rancher's hand had lingered longingly in her soft cleavage when he tipped her a few nights ago. "I think I can persuade him to assist in this worthy cause." There were tears in the old Franciscan's eyes. "Teresa, I don't what to say. Es maravilloso. It is wonderful, a gift from heaven. How can I thank you enough? What made you do this? You could have kept the money for yourself." Teresa smiled at the joyful white-haired padre. "It was las campanas, Padre, the bells. The bells spoke to me in the night." "Yes, I know," she said, as he began to protest once again. "Perhaps I heard them in my dreams, Padre. But I did hear them. And this is what they have told me to do." Just then, Teresa and the priest heard loud voices behind them, some distance up the road. A number of adults had children had gathered in a circle. When Teresa moved closer to the commotion she saw that it was her brothers, Carlos and Pepe, surrounded by onlookers. Carlos and Pepe, considerably the worse for wear, told their story (or as much of they could of it without incriminating themselves). How two norteamericanos had ambushed them, beaten them, stolen their money and taken Pepe's ring the night before, and left them tied in a deserted miner's cabin in the hills. As a few of the men prepared to give chase to the two gringos, Carlos asked Teresa if the two banditos had come to the cantina. Teresa gave old Hector, who was watching her closely, a warning glance, and simply shook her head 'no'. It would not be right to speak of such a terrible ordeal in front of all these women and children. There would be time enough to tell her story later, whether or not the gringos were caught. Shortly, a small posse formed, and the men mounted their horses, and rode off toward the old road that led from Santa Maria Magdalena to Nogales. But Teresa held out little hope that they would catch her tormentors, and in fact the improvised posse returned the next day empty-handed, but still in plenty of time to enjoy the second day of the celebration of the Dia de los Muertos.
Epilogue A little more than three months later, a pair of cold-eyed cowboys were sitting on adjoining barstools in a saloon in Tombstone, Arizona. The taller of the two, dressed all in black, elbowed his shifty-eyed companion. "The one in the yaller dress ain't half bad lookin', Ern. For a whore." His weasel-faced companion nodded gloomily and called out, "Hey, honey, bring that damn bottle back over here." The buxom strawberry-blonde barmaid felt four hungry eyes devouring her breasts as she approached them, bottle in hand, with a careless hip-swinging gait. As she neared their end of the horseshoe bar, she passed by a grizzled old miner who was seated next to them, poring over a yellowing newspaper. The blonde gave the taller of the two strangers a coy smile, her pink tongue moistening her full lips. "How you fellers doin' tonight? she asked as she refilled their shot glasses. She leaned forward a little, letting them get a good look down her low-cut dress. It had been a slow night and she hadn't made enough in tips to buy dinner. Maybe if she gave them a free look, she reasoned, she could turn a trick later and make some dough. The tall one wasn't bad-looking, she thought, if you liked your men on the rugged side. The little one with the misshapen face was a homely little bastard, though. And he didn't smell much better than he looked. Jack Slocum could feel his cock swell as he drank in the sight of the blonde's pink breast-flesh. Aside from an unlucky young Apache maiden whom they'd caught bathing alone in the hills north of Nogales, neither he nor Ernie had had a woman since the morning they'd left Piedras Negras. The woman pouring his drink had some nice tits, and she didn't seem to mind showing them off. The blonde served the twosome and turned to take care of a customer at the other end of the bar, giving her butt a cute little twitch as she did so. "Nice ass," Ernie offered. "But she's a bit old for my taste, Jackson. You know I like 'em young. Besides that, I'm still as broke as a greenhorn with three aces facing a goddam straight!" he cursed, loud enough for the miners at the other end of the bar to hear. "Aw, she ain't that old, Ern, maybe 30 is all. You ain't no schoolkid yerself anymore either. And she's got good tits. Wouldn't mind gettin' a hold of them babies, and givin' 'em a good squeeze. For starters," Jack grunted. The old miner on Jack's right finished the last of his drink. "Evenin', Lucy," he called to the blonde at the other end of the bar, as he laid the crumpled-up paper on top of the bar. "See you tomorrow night." "OK, Barney," the blonde said. And she gave Jack a quick wink before turning back to the customers at the other end of the bar. Slocum glanced idly at the paper the old miner had left. And then suddenly something caught his eye, and he snatched the paper up and began to study it closely. "Jack, you ain't gonna find yer goddam picture in there," Ernie snorted. "You'd have better luck in a Texas Post Office!" "Shut up, asshole. Read this." Ernie had gotten kicked out of school in the third grade for skinning the schoolmarm's kitten after she'd yelled at him. And he'd never gone back. Reading wasn't exactly his strong suit, as Jack knew perfectly well. "This damn eye," Ernie alibied, fingering the left side of his face, still a bit discolored from doing battle with Carlos's bottle, "still hurts when I read, Jack. Why don't you read it to me, buddy?" And Jack began to read aloud from the Tombstone Epitaph.... The Miracle of Piedras Negras This newspaperman has run into some strange stories since he came west after the war, but none as strange as this one. They say it's as big a story down Mexico way, as the Clanton shoot-out at the OK Corral was around this neck of the woods a few years back. Seems like there's this little church down in Sonora, in a one-horse village called Piedras Negras, not too far from Magdalena, on the main road leading south from Nogales. And the folks in those parts are saying that a miracle took place there last fall. Apparently last Halloween night, a couple of American roughnecks passing through Piedras Negras attacked a young woman in a little saloon across the street from a deserted church. The woman, who apparently was beaten quite badly, claims that her assailants ... "Assailants?" Jack struggled with the unfamiliar word. "What the hell is an assailant?" Ernie shrugged. But the story Jack was reading had gotten his attention. For the first time since he'd come into the saloon his eyes weren't on the blonde's over-ripe figure. He peered at the tiny print over Jack's shoulder, even though the inky symbols on the week-old newspaper meant nothing to him. ... her assailants were frightened away by the tolling of the chimes of a nearby church. A church -- here's where it starts to get interesting, folks -- that the locals swear no one had been inside of for nearly a year. Jack and Ernie exchanged puzzled glances. The townspeople down in Piedras Negras are convinced that the spirits of "Los Angelitos" - the little children buried in the nearby cemetery - somehow came to the rescue of the victim of the attack. That the Angelitos somehow got the bells in the church-tower to ring, and frightened off the Yankee desperados. So grateful was the young woman, one Teresa Martinez, for her deliverance, that the next morning she gave Father Eusebio, the local padre, a considerable sum of money. It turns out some luckless soul had lost his wallet in Teresa's little tavern not long before, and she had just found it a night or two earlier, stuffed with cash. And so, the good padre has been able to re-open the abandoned church, to the delight of the local populace. Ernie angrily emptied his glass and flung it across the room, just missing a drunk who had fallen forward across a table near the swinging doors of the saloon. "That bitch. That fucking bitch!" Ernie fumed. "I knew she had the money, Jack! I knew it! If you had just let me work on her for another few seconds ... Fuck!!!" "Hey, quit throwing things down there, Shorty! Them glasses don't grow on trees, you know." Ernie gave the barmaid a dirty look. "Ah, don't git your tits in an uproar, blondie," he muttered under his breath. 'And I woulda, too, Jack," Ernie continued, in a voice low enough that only Jack could hear, "if you hadn't a stopped me. You and yer goddam jinxes! Fuck! She damn sure woulda talked if I'd 'a run that hot knife across those trussed-up tits a coupla times!" Jack struggled in vain to suppress a toothy smile. "Yeah, Ern. You mighta got yer fifty bucks. And you mighta got a rope around yer neck too." "Yeah, but I been fuckin' broke ever since, Jack. That no-good thieving Mexican whore! I shoulda twisted her tits off when I had the chance!" Jack smirked again. "Tell you what, partner." The man in black reached into a pocket and pulled out a shiny new silver dollar. "I feel kinda bad about yer being broke and all. Take this," he offered Ernie the dollar, "and have yerself a good time with Lucy, there, when she goes off duty." Jack gestured toward the full-breasted blonde barmaid. "I'm gonna ride back to the cabin and work on that damn roof before we get us another cloudburst." Jack rose and slapped his weasel-faced partner on the back. "And stop yer damn pissin' and moanin' about that money you left in Me-ji-co. Who knows," Jack's sly smile widened into a broad grin, "if you wrote that padre a letter, they might even name that church San Ernesto in your honor!" Jack was still chuckling to himself as he stepped outside and mounted Cyclone. Ernie, meanwhile, flipped the silver dollar over and over in his fingers, while he undressed Lucy's ripe body with his eyes. Ernie tapped the hard edge of the silver dollar twice on the bar. Lucy turned toward him, and saw the shiny silver dollar glinting in his hand. She considered for a moment, and then walked toward him, smiling this time, her eyes on the dollar, not on Ernie. "Hey, handsome," she addressed the weasel-faced little man. 'You doin' anything later? I'll be gettin' off in a while." Ernie Gibbs returned Lucy's insincere smile with one of his own. He held the silver coin up and turned it slowly so that the light from the tawdry overhead chandelier played on its shiny surface. He noticed that Lucy's greedy eyes never left it. "Yeah, maybe we can get together, then, Doll, and have us a little fun." While Lucy stared, mesmerized by the shiny dollar, Ernie the Weasel's tongue swept over his dry lips as he eyeballed the voluptuous breasts that spilled out of the bodice of her garish yellow dress. "Hey, hon, whatcha luggin' around in that big ol' knapsack?" Lucy asked. Ernie's lower lip curled into a smile that was as cold and as hard as his silver dollar, as he glanced down at the big blue rucksack at his feet. Because before the night was out, he reckoned, a certain big-breasted barmaid was gonna regret having called him "Shorty".
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