Sonia pursed her pale lips and said, “I did fall down by myself, but I feel like things weren’t as simple as they looked.”

“Do you suspect something, baby?” Charles asked as he looked at her.

She nodded. “I fell because I stepped on something slippery as I came out from the stall. When I was on the floor, I smelled something fragrant, like body wash.”

“Why would there be body wash in front of your stall?” His eyes widened in astonishment.

 

“I have no clue either.”

Stroking his chin, he mused, “Could it be that someone dropped their body wash as they passed by and it spilled right on your doorstep, and you were unlucky enough to step in it?”

Narrowing her eyes, she answered, “Maybe, but the chances don’t sound too high.”

“Why do you say so?”

Tilting her head slightly at him, Sonia answered, “Because I didn’t hear the sound of anything falling while I was taking a bath.”

Which was to say someone stealthily and deliberately placed the body wash in front of her door.

 

Instantly, Charles stood up. “Then it has to be Tina. She and Toby are our only two enemies at this resort and since he couldn’t possibly enter the ladies’ room, that leaves only her.”

the blanket clenched. “You’re right. When you called me last evening, she happened to be nearby. She must have heard me say that I

fell dramatically with rage, he pulled his cell phone out of his pocket, snarling, “What a poisonous snake that woman is! We have to make a police report. We must! We can’t let this go just like

pointed out, “There’s no use. It’s not like there’s surveillance in the shower room. We have no way of proving that she planted the body wash. Even if tests revealed that the body wash on the floor is the kind she

he grumbled, “So, if this isn’t

moment of thought, she proposed, “Unless we can get a recording of her admitting to deliberately harming

be easy.” With a sinister smile, he continued, “But I can have someone threaten her while wearing a wire.

as she was about to

Charles grumbled as he

it, he discovered Toby and Tina

Tina greeted with a slight

face fell and he asked without

gaze squarely, Toby explained, “We’re

Charles’ outfit was the same as the previous evening, that proved he spent the night

and Sonia alone in a room together, Toby’s

it, Charles?” Sonia asked a little

stared at the couple in front of him and called back in a raised voice, “It’s

was silent for a few moments before Sonia

then stepped aside, albeit a little

you,” Tina said with a smile and a nod before leading Toby in with her

Charles shut the

a loose pair of pajamas, Sonia was seated against the head of the bed and her head was bandaged. Her face was pale and she looked

heart ache faintly at the sight of her. Subconsciously, he gentled

smirked in

instantly tightened her

continuing in a cold and detached voice, “There’s nothing

he was asking

grip on his

Charles stepped forward in a broad stride and blocked Tina’s view of her, miming a digging motion with his fingers and saying, “I’ll gouge your eyes out if you look at her

lip. “You

a chuckle, he answered, “Try me!” And then, he acted like he was about to chase

and hid behind Toby, clinging to the hem of his suit jacket and begging in a quavering voice, “Save

up the other in a ‘stop’ motion in front of Charles and

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