CHAPTER 96
“One helicopter down,” Mandy reported into the phone.
Jeff didn’t hear a crash from inside the well house. No ball of fire either, but the helicopter didn’t reappear.
The second one twisted sickeningly. They saw a blaze of light as someone on it started shooting wildly. Bullets sliced through the wall just inches above their heads. They all dropped to the floor as Mandy shouted into her phone, “They’re shooting at us.”
Clarice cried out even as the rain of bullets cut off abruptly.
“My leg,” her voice was a groan.
It was near enough daylight outside, but it was still dark in the well house. Jeff took one of the flashlights and aimed it down, close to the floor. That should be safe. It took only a moment to find the pool of blood spreading from beneath Clarice’s leg. A bull
