Chapter 3 - The Panic Button
Vincent cocked the hammer of his suppressed pistol with a chilling metallic click.
He told me to order the maid to step out from behind the curtain right now.
I did not hesitate for a single second to protect my brother's family.
I slammed my fist aggressively down onto the red panic button hidden beneath my desk.
Thick steel security shutters instantly dropped down over all the office windows.
A blaring alarm began screaming through the entire mansion.
The sudden deafening noise caused Vincent to flinch and briefly lower his weapon.
I drew my hidden pistol and fired two rapid shots into his right shoulder.
Vincent shouted in pain and fell backward onto the Persian rug.
I rushed over to the velvet curtains and pulled Hannah and Grace out from the shadows.
I dragged them toward the massive wooden bookshelf lining the back wall.
I pulled a specific leather-bound book, activating the hidden door mechanism.
The heavy bookcase swung outward, revealing a dark, narrow emergency tunnel.
I shoved Hannah inside and quickly followed, pulling the heavy bookcase shut behind us.
The thick walls completely muffled the screaming alarm bells from the main office.
I turned on my phone's flashlight and led them quickly down the dusty spiral staircase.
Hannah held Grace tightly against her chest, crying silently in the pitch-black tunnel.
I promised her that I would get them out of this mansion completely alive.
We descended three stories deep into the concrete foundation of the estate.
The tunnel eventually ended at a reinforced steel door leading to my private underground garage.
I punched in my personal security code, and the heavy door hissed open.
My private collection of armored sports cars sat silently in the dim emergency lighting.
I told Hannah to get into the bulletproof black sedan parked nearest to the exit.
I ran over to the central vault where the sixty million dollars was supposed to be stacked on pallets.
I needed to secure the funds before we abandoned the compromised estate.
I swung the vault door open and shined my flashlight inside.
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The entire massive room was completely empty of cash.
Sitting directly in the center of the empty floor was a massive block of military-grade C4 explosives with a red digital timer reading only ten seconds.
