CHAPTER SIXTEEN
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THE MEN CRINGED WHEN Driscoll's roar reached them. Frank and Gabe had decided to speak to their boss alone, and they had left their teams in the ranch yard with orders to wait for them.
Dean, too young and stupid to understand what was really going on, grinned widely. Ben, Frank's right hand, thwacked him over the head.
"Are you out of your mind, kiddo?" Ben asked the young man, and his eyebrows bunched on his forehead. "When the big boss is angry, you don't grin, stupid boy," he advised Dean in a hard tone of voice.
Dean hung his head in shame and shuffled to get behind the others. The boy didn't understand why he was always in the wrong. Eager to please, he would make mistakes all the time.
"We'll erase him and his ranch off the face of the earth," Driscoll
