Jamie’s POV
Billy had the boys at the house within record time.
There was no wasted movement, no unnecessary questions. Everyone knew what was at stake.
Celeste was out there.
And we were going to bring her home.
We had spent the past few hours piecing together everything we could about the location where she was being held. Satellite imagery gave us our first real look at the property.
A timber house sat in the middle of a large clearing.
The lack of vegetation immediately surrounding the house was deliberate. It was the kind of clearing commonly used to protect rural properties during bushfire season, but tonight it gave us something else.
A problem.
There wasn’t much cover close to the house.
Beyond the clearing, however, the story changed.
Thick timber surrounded the propert
