The Case of the Cereal Robber (The Kitten Files Book 3) by Perry Kirkpatrick

Author:Perry Kirkpatrick [Kirkpatrick, Perry]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Perry Elisabeth Kirkpatrick
Published: 2018-07-16T04:00:00+00:00

Six

I had tried to sleep through the night so I could take less cat naps the next day. By the time Keith woke up in the morning, I was excessively rested, energetic, and itching to get going.

Keith gave me the stink eye as I jumped from floor to table to counter to floor and back again while he slowwwly ate his breakfast. I checked for the thread spool under the refrigerator. It was still there, and I still couldn’t reach it.

“Mia, why are you fishing under the refrigerator? Better question: why are you so wound up?”

I slept most of the night. Let’s get going! Most of the people in the neighborhood are going to be gone for work now. The robbers are going to get there before us! I wrote on his napkin.

Keith grumbled something sleepy and incoherent, but he put his cereal bowl in the sink and headed to his room to dress. By the time he returned, I was pacing by the front door. He helped me into my phone harness and picked me up.

We managed to make it to the car without any interruptions from our elderly neighbor who very opinionatedly preferred dogs. (Although, one time, she had grudgingly said I was a good cat—for a cat.)

We drove north a block and entered the neighborhood I’d be staking out. Keith spoke his first fully-awake words of the day. “Well, I’m glad this place is so close. That way, if you have a problem, I’ll be able to reach you quickly.”

I glanced at him and scratched a note on a pad of paper we kept in his car.

Aww... you’re worried about me?

He blinked slowly. “Oh. Well—” he said a little sheepishly, “everyone needs backup at some time or another...”

I smirked. He wasn’t wrong, but it was fun to tease him sometimes. Okay, it was always fun to tease him.

The car rolled to a stop near a large bush. ”Here we are,” he said, glancing around for anyone who might see him drop me off. The neighborhood was very quiet. As I suspected, most of the residents had just left for work.

I gave him a quick nod. He reached across and popped the passenger door open a bit. I slipped out and slunk behind the bush. Keith eased the car away from the curb and headed out of the neighborhood.

I took a deep breath. This was it.

Checking that my phone harness was secure, I prepared for a sweep of the neighborhood. I slunk from house to house but saw nothing out of the ordinary. The other street yielded the same: nothing. The Esplanade neighborhood was quiet.

I paused near a backyard gate and glanced around, wondering what my plan of action should be. I could wander back and forth between the two streets endlessly until I either saw the robbers or didn’t. Or...

I gazed up at a tall tree rising from behind the fences. That would be perfect. I approached the yard slowly, cautiously. A strong smell of dog hung around the area.

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