She wouldn't normally have rented on that basis but he sent her three months payment, in cash, and she left a key in an agreed location.
Back at the apartment, he paused at the door, key in hand.
There was no light in the back of the house and I didn't have a flashlight so I had trouble getting the key in the lock.
He pushed the door to a dark room open, using his senses to key in on where the person was.
He slipped the motel key in the left shoe and then rolled each sock, pushing it into its corresponding shoe.