Chapter Forty-Two
Jacqueline stares at the monitor and replies into her radio. Quietly.
“This man is now in the kitchen. Has a light machine gun. Possible hand grenades. He’s by the stairs Petra. Be careful. He looks pretty big, come in via the window that he just kicked in. Matilda, Josephine. Go towards the tallest tree, on the left of the drive. He went in there. He’s trailing blood. I’m bolting shut the front drive floor entrance. The only way in here now, is via the valley tunnel. I’m going off screen, heading upstairs to get this freak out of my home, over.”
Jacqueline bolts down the floor hatch. Dull thuds come from the ceiling above her as the next assassin searches her house. She steps into the armory and takes two shotguns from their racks. One is the bear stopper the other is
