"It's my cue to leave, unfortunately. I'd love to stay and discuss our future life of luxury but I have some friends to meet." Friends, people who paid him to case places, same thing really and it stopped him from having to tell Hartley the truth. "Nothing dangerous, I swear I'll be a good boy too so we can hang after if you want? Just chill out here, James went out to party so odds are, he won't be back for a few days." That was how it was with James, he disappeared a lot and it was always nice when Axel wanted privacy.