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.”

evening, she happened to be nearby. She must have heard

of his pocket, snarling, “What a poisonous snake that woman is! We have to make a police report. We must!

have no way of proving that she planted the body wash. Even if tests

tightly, he grumbled, “So, if this isn’t an option, what should

we can get a recording of her admitting to deliberately harming me, all

smile, he continued, “But I can have someone threaten her while wearing a

brightened but right as she was about

is it?” Charles grumbled as he

he discovered Toby and Tina standing

Tina greeted with a

he asked without

squarely, Toby explained, “We’re looking for

the previous evening, that proved he spent the night

the thought of Charles and Sonia alone in a room together, Toby’s gaze

it, Charles?” Sonia asked a little weakly from inside the

intention to lie to her, Charles stared at the couple in front of him and called back in a raised voice, “It’s Miss Gray and President Fuller. They say they’re

silent for a few moments before Sonia finally said, “Let

aside,

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

his eyes, Charles shut the door

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

ache faintly at the sight of her. Subconsciously, he

curious look, Sonia smirked in amusement and asked, “Are you concerned

instantly tightened her grip around

continuing in a cold and detached voice,

that he was asking

Tina loosened her grip on his arm

and blocked Tina’s view of her, miming a digging motion with his fingers and saying, “I’ll gouge

her lip. “You

“Try me!” And then, he acted like he

Toby, clinging to the hem of his suit jacket and begging in a quavering

Toby held up the other in a ‘stop’ motion in

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