The Safe Room

POV: VALERIE

More shots tore through the front of the mansion.

The explosive sounds were a brutal, unending assault on the senses. Each crack of gunfire echoed through the grand entryway, tearing chunks of stone and splintering the heavy wooden frame of the door. I flinched hard at every deafening bang, my shoulders hiking toward my ears as the reality of the violence washed over me. My heart s