Maybe he wasn’t sure they’d make it.
“They’ve lost power,” Joker added.
“Generator?”Radar asked.
“Doesn’t look like it,” Joker replied.The drone hovered in front of a top-floor window but at a distance so no one would hear.
Vance used his phone for light and paced the room, occasionally checking the door handle which was locked.
Dobby frowned.“He’s got a phone.”
“We’ve got his number,” Radar said.“Do we call?”
“No.Let’s get in and grab him.”Something about the whole situation didn’t add up.“Give me a look at the rest of the house.”
Joker panned around and Dobby noted doors on every side, but the guards didn’t move along the cliff-facing side when they patrolled.“That door.”
Hawk nodded.“It’ll give us more time.We can leave via the front on the way out if we need to.”
“You can search for more stairs inside while we get the target,” Dobby told him.
Hopefully they’d find some so they didn’t have to go right past the occupied room with Vance who might not be stealthy.
“Only two sets of guards, each with a dog,” Joker added.
“There’s a four-wheel drive out front,” Axle said.“I’ll commandeer it.”
Good.Finally a plan that would work.
He fished some jerky out of his pack and tucked it into a pocket in case the dogs noticed them and weren’t well trained.
They jogged along the edge of the village and up the road to the house, using the darkness to their advantage.The buildings on this side of the village hadn’t been damaged by the earthquake.The area they moved through was silent, everyone having long since fled for the mountains.
“We’ve got thirty minutes tops,” Radar murmured when they arrived outside the mansion.
Axle dug around in his pack.“Give me a couple of minutes and I’ll have the car ready to go.”
Wheels would be a game changer right now.
“Looks like security are at the front,” Radar said.“Nothing around the back, Joker?”
Dobby peered around the car.Two sets of guards, each with a Belgian Malinois.The dogs looked half-starved.Agus probably thought hungry dogs made better guard dogs.Idiot.
“No.”
That was a massive oversight.Agus didn’t know much about good security.
“Joker, stay with Axle,” he murmured.“Be our eyes on the ocean and the guards.”He gestured to the others to move out.
Dobby ran across the ground, sticking close to the jungle as they reached the corner of the house.The guards had met in the middle and were conversing.
Good.
His heart pounded in a steady beat as they moved down the wall and along the back of the house.
He tried the door handle and found it unlocked.Finally, something easy.He gestured, and they went through the door, taking up defensive positions.
No alarms.
