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“Sounds good,” Julia said, and she started opening the cabinets in the kitchen. “I found the cat food but not much else.”
When I got to the closed door, I opened it. Other than a bed against one of the walls and a dresser, it was empty. “Hmm…” Without a closet, there wasn’t any place to hide anything, but just in case, I looked under the bed.
“Nothing,” I muttered and coughed as I inhaled some dust mites. Wanting to cover all the bases, I opened the drawers, but they didn’t contain anything out of the ordinary.
“Did you find something?” Julia asked hopefully when I came out of the bedroom.
“Nope. What about you?”
She shook her head and frowned. “Other than finding Leo, searching the apartment was a waste in time.”
I looked at Leo, who was sunning himself by the window ledge, unaware of how close he was to running out of food. “What should we do with him? Do you think we should take him when we leave?”
“It didn’t sound like Sully was crazy about taking care of Leo. Maybe we should offer to take him with us because we can’t come to Monterey every day,” Julia said, giving the cat a sad look.
“But where would we keep him?” I walked over to Leo and sat next to him on the floor.
“I guess you would have to take him home with you because Tristan’s place doesn’t accept pets, and we don’t move into the new place until next month.”
“Do you think Grumpy will get along with Leo or vice versa?”
Julia cocked her head to one side and thought about it. “I guess we’ll just have to wait and find out.”
I chuckled when I pictured Grumpy looking confused when we brought Leo home.
“What’s so funny?” Julia asked.
“I was thinking about what Grumpy would do when he meets Leo.”
Julia smiled, but her smile quickly slipped. “Hey, what’s this?” Julia held up a small bronze key.
“It looks like a storage key.” I got up and walked over to where Julia was rummaging through a drawer in the kitchen. “Does it have any markings?”
“No. We need to find something in here that tells us what it may be,” she said and started to rifle through stuff in another drawer.
“Ah-ha!” Julia cried out. “Trevor is renting a storage unit in Monterey. Here’s a receipt for March.” She held out the paper for me to look at.
“There’s a name and address.” I whipped out my phone from my purse to search online for the location. “Superior Bay Storage is located two miles away.”
“I think we searched everything here. Let’s go find what Trevor is storing or maybe hiding,” Julia said as she closed the drawers she opened.
“Are we going to take Leo?” I asked, gazing at the tabby still lying by the window.
“Let’s leave him here for the moment. I refilled his feeder with food and water, so he should be good for now. We’ll come back and get him before we leave Monterey.”
“Okay, that sounds good. Bye, Leo.” I waved at the tabby. He opened one eye but didn’t move. Leo was wholly unimpressed by our sleuthing.
Chapter Twenty-Seven
According to the sales receipt, Trevor paid for the use of a small climate-controlled room. “Look for unit 135,” I said when we entered the building where the small storage units were located.
“You know, I never thought about putting anything in storage. I wonder what people keep in there,” Julia mused while she was looking for Trevor’s rental.
“Beats me. I don’t own much to begin with, so I’m not a good person to ask.”
“That’s right. You’re a vagabond,” Julia teased. She passed a few more doors on her left before she spotted the number. “Oh, hey, here it is.”
I stood next to Julia, looking at the entry. The storage unit Trevor paid for wasn’t very big. In fact, it looked like an oversized broom closet.
