For minutes, an eerie silence had settled over the house when all the shooting outside suddenly stopped. They had been exchanging gunfire for the past twenty minutes or so.
Unlike their other properties, the ranch house hadn’t been fitted with bulletproof windows and reinforced walls. The only modification they had made to the house plan was the panic room and the tunnel that led to the barn. That oversight on their part ensured that the bullets fired at the house had the desired effects. Windows were shuttered, scattering glass everywhere. The walls were beginning to look like swiss cheese. One thing was for sure, after this was done, the entire house would need to be brought down and rebuilt. But for now, the thin walls stood between them and the war outside.
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