Chapter Forty-Two
Leona took Emma out to a faded red barn behind the main house. The only illumination inside the barn was the sunlight shafting its rays through the spaces in the barn boards. In the center of the barn floor, several naked young men stood in a line. Padlocked steel manacles and chains fastened to the floor held their legs apart. Chains attached to overhead timbers and steel wrist manacles held their arms above their heads. A buxom middle-aged matron in a headscarf and faded denim prairie dress was lashing each boy in turn with a rattan cane. All the boys were butt-plugged. A thick leather strap swung from her waist.
Emma could see the woman was enjoying herself as she swung the cane and lectured the boys. She whipped them front and rear, aggressively striping their belli
