Several vehicles pulled up to the construction site entrance, and Bruno Maddox, a towering bull of a man, charged in with a pack of thugs bristling with hostility.
"Get your foot off him!" Bruno barked the moment he entered, spotting Clyde Barrett pinned face-down in the mud under Elias Vance's boot.
Clyde's spirits soared at the sound. "Bruno! You made it! Help me!"
Elias's expression remained cold. If anything, he pressed down harder, grinding Clyde's head another few inches deeper into the muck.
"You son of a b***h, you've got a death wish!" Bruno roared, his voice booming across the half-built framework of the construction site.
Only then did Elias lift his foot, kicking Clyde so he rolled across the muddy ground like discarded trash. His tone was flat, almost bored. "He's under y
