Sonny laughed and Lena groaned as he picked her up and slung her over his shoulder like a sack of beans. She vaguely saw Jerry walk back to the van as Sonny carried her over to a tall thin tree. He held her there until Jerry came back and Lena moaned as she saw that he was carrying several pieces of rope.

Then Sonny threw her to the ground and slowly bent the tree over until it was bowed and the top leaves almost reached the ground. He leaned across it and watched, laughing quietly as Jerry reached down and grabbed Lena's ankles. As she tried to struggle, he lashed a rope round each of them and then heaved her to her feet again.

"Oh no," she breathed, stricken with a greater terror than she had ever known in her life before as he carried her to one side of the tree and threw her over it. "Oh please! Please don't, please, I didn't do it, I'm innocent, I really am, please."

She gave up as their cruel laughter echoed around the clearing. Sonny turned round on the tree and held her body pressed across it while Jerry lashed two more ropes round Lena's wrists. Then he undid the handcuffs and pulled her farther over the tree.

It was obvious that they had done this before. Lena saw the tree root sticking out of the ground as Jerry went right to it, put the rope underneath it and pulled. Her body was pulled down further, the pain increasing as he heaved and stretched her arm tight. Then he tied it off and went to her other wrist.

By now the fear was such that Lena couldn't speak. She watched him lash her other hand to the base of another small tree.

He laughed and leaned down on her and it was Sonny's turn. He went to the ropes round her ankles and spread her legs, tying them to a pair of stakes that had been driven into the ground. Lena struggled, but she was bound too tightly and the tree pressed up into the exact place where the top of her thighs met her pussy. Her ass was stuck high in the air and both her hands and feet were spread, her hands much farther apart than her ankles.