It’s not long before the GPS directs us through a small town on the outskirts of Melbourne’s northern suburbs and onto a dirt road where trees and scrubs span out along the edges. At least there are plenty of places to hide. I won’t be stopping tonight though, we will just drive past and scope out the area. Once we go past the location I will key ‘home’ back into the GPS, to look for any alternative routes away from here.

“Your destination is four hundred metres on your right.”

Tanner’s eyes flick across to the other side of the road. “Over there, I can see a light.”

I slow a little, not wanting to stop completely and draw any unwanted attention to us. Sure enough, a few hundred meters to the right is a driveway, if it were daylight we wouldn’t have been able to see the warehouse hidden back off the road. The only reason Tanner was able to spot it, are the large flood lights behind the building.

“You call that a light? She’s lit up like Luna Park in there. Seems like more than freight and cartage, I’ll tell ya that for free.”

As the light of the warehouse fades, I pull off to the side, keying in my home address. Tanner turns his body towards me, a mischievous look on his face; a look which says we are going to fuck shit up.

“Go on then,” I say. “Out with it.”

The crazy bastard gives a chuckle. “This Stanley guy you and Kinsley work with, he can obviously hack into cameras …”

“Yeah, he has eyes on the apartment. Why?”

“Is he good enough to see if there are cameras on this property? If he could access them, we could scope out the location better, learn more about them, their comings and goings.”

My eyes go wide. “That is so much better than my plan of hiding out by the trees.”

Tanner raises his left brow, looking at me puzzled. “You were just going to hide out on the road side? Waiting for them to turn into their driveway?”

“Well yeah — but when you put it like that it sounds stupid.” I scratch the back of my head. Stupid, Jesse. So freaking stupid. I know Kyle would be laughing if he were watching this unfold. Knowing that I was going to hide out in the trees like we did as kids … You’re a grown ass man now, Jesse, you can do better than that.

Tanner shakes his head. “Let’s get back, then we can call Stanley and get the ball rolling. I—” he pauses briefly, wiping the palms of his hands down his jeans “— I’m losing patience.”