Nico takes level, and Killian and I flank him, weaving out and in of site visitors as we go. It’s darkish out now, and we meet up with the members of Enigma who had eyes on the pawn store for tonight.

I do know Quinn informed them to report back to us the identical as they’d to her, however they nonetheless don’t look thrilled that we’re those right here as an alternative of their chief.

We collect in an alley down the road from the store, and Nico steps ahead.

“Report,” he says, all enterprise.

“Silas went inside about fifteen minutes in the past,” one of many Enigma crew solutions, ruffling bushy brown hair as he speaks. “He hasn’t come out but.”

Nico nods. “Good. You all filter out of right here. The less folks round when this goes down, the higher.”

The three of them have a look at one another however take the dismissal, handing over the borrowed surveillance tools and leaving us to it.

Nico, Killian, and I arrange throughout the road and down the block just a little method, watching from a protected distance. Nobody will be capable to see us until they arrive this fashion particularly, however we now have a great view of the entrance of the store. Silas isn’t getting out with out us seeing him.

“The plan?” Killian asks, by no means taking his eyes off the store. I can really feel the stress radiating from him, the whole lot in him coiled to strike.

“We’re not going to take him out right here,” Nico says. “Like we talked about, we have to know at the beginning if he’s working solo or with some new group. So we’ll tail Silas after he leaves the store and see the place he goes. Work out the place his base is and go from there.”

Killian grunts. I do know he’d desire to have this over and completed with proper now, and I can’t say I blame him for that. I perceive Nico’s reasoning, however there’s part of me that’s too impatient to attend any longer now that we now have Silas the place we would like him.

However I nod anyway, letting out a breath.

We don’t have lengthy to attend earlier than Silas comes out. The pawn store door opens lower than three minutes later, and a tall blond man emerges.

I research him, evaluating the fact of him with the outline we’ve been working from. I can’t get an awesome have a look at him from a distance at night time, nevertheless it’s ok.

He appears possibly early thirties, muscled and broad. There’s nothing overtly eye-catching about him, along with his blond hair and common face. The scar on his cheek is his most unusual function, and I undoubtedly don’t acknowledge him.

“Let’s go,” Nico says quietly, and we mobilize, ready for Silas to get in his automobile and begin driving off earlier than we head to our bikes and begin to tail him.

We journey after him for some time, conserving automobiles in between us and sustaining our distance from one another. It’s much less suspicious if we’re not multi function group following him.

Finally, he leads us to a home about ten minutes from the pawn store. He will get out of his automobile and heads inside, and we look forward to the door to shut and the lights to come back on inside earlier than we transfer any nearer.

Even then, we maintain our distance, sizing the place up and casing it with essential eyes. We scan for cameras, attempting to verify there’s nothing apparent earlier than we make any strikes. There’s at all times the prospect {that a} neighbor has a doorbell digital camera or one thing, however there’s not a lot we will do about that.

“Home windows on each flooring,” Killian murmurs, his gaze monitoring over the home. “Facet door, again door, entrance door.”

Nico nods. “From what I noticed of the again of the home after we rode up, it appears prefer it simply faces that deserted lot again there. Straightforward to interrupt in with out being seen, however we don’t know if he lives right here alone. One automobile within the driveway doesn’t imply a lot.”

I scan the highest of the home, seeking to see if there’s an attic or roof entry wherever, however come up brief.

“Home windows might be a great entry level,” I say. “But it surely’s dangerous with out figuring out if anybody else is in the home, until we handle to get in fully silently.”

Killian shoots me a glance that claims he’s greater than able to that, and I snort as a result of he’s proper. He might get by means of a window with out alerting anybody he’s there. He’s completed it loads of occasions earlier than.

“For those who can match by means of it,” I mutter, and he huffs a breath that could be fun if it had been anybody however Killian, then refocuses on the home.

I do the identical, peering by means of the night time imaginative and prescient goggles and scanning the darkened home windows, attempting to make out any trace of motion that will point out extra individuals are inside. However I don’t choose something up. The home is quiet and darkish, besides a single mild shining from one of many first flooring home windows.

As I decrease the night time imaginative and prescient goggles a couple of minutes later, the sunshine within the window all of the sudden flicks off.

“Motion,” Killian grunts, lifting his chin.

Silas emerges from the aspect door of the home and will get again in his automobile, pulling out of the driveway and onto the street earlier than heading in the wrong way from the place he got here.

“What do you suppose?” Nico says, glancing to me and Killian.

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