Chapter 6 - The Secret Tunnels
We were securely locked inside a completely impenetrable steel box, but we were also totally trapped.
The panic room only had enough oxygen and water to last us exactly forty-eight hours.
I watched the monitors closely as heavily armed mercenaries began arriving at my estate.
Victoria was clearly not just a greedy socialite, she was deeply connected to the criminal underworld.
I frantically searched the panic room for any weapons, finding only a flare gun and a tactical flashlight.
Clara walked over to the back wall of the room and began running her fingers along the steel panels.
She asked me if I remembered the original blueprints of the historical mansion before I renovated it.
I told her I bought the property fully furnished and never looked at the old architectural plans.
Clara pressed her hand against a specific rivet in the wall and pushed upward with all her strength.
A hidden access hatch popped open, revealing a dark, narrow dirt tunnel sloping downward.
I stared at her in absolute shock, demanding to know how a homeless nurse knew about a secret escape route.
Clara grabbed the tactical flashlight and turned it on, illuminating the damp earth ahead.
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She calmly explained that she was not just a pediatric nurse at the hospital.
She was the biological sister of my first wife, the woman Victoria had brutally murdered.
