Page 122 of Vacation Friends

She ignored him. Instead, she pulled herself up on shaky legs. As other guests wandered over, she warned them to stay away from the electrified hot tub.

The employee doing CPR shouted for someone to call 911.

Nico still wasn’t moving.

Maddie lifted a prayer.

Would he be okay? How had this even happened?

Even more . . . who had been the target? Nico or Josh?

Then the biggest question of all hit her.

Had Josh planned this to get rid of the competition?

For that matter, had he killed Logan before she could come forward with any of his secrets?

If that was the case, what would he do to Maddie?

Instinctively, she took a few steps back from Josh.

Maybe her suspicions were right. Maybe he had been behind those mysterious incidents before the trip, those opportunities where she could have died. Maybe Josh wanted to gain sympathy among the board members.

The thought had sounded outlandish before.

But maybe it wasn’t.

“He’s alive!” the hotel employee yelled. “I’ve got a pulse.”

Maddie’s lungs finally loosened enough for her to catch her breath.

She glanced at Josh in time to see a frown flicker across his face before quickly disappearing.

Cement filled her lungs again.

Maybe—just maybe—her suspicions were correct and she wasn’t paranoid after all.

What if her former fiancé was a killer?

Kalani showed up on the scene fifteen minutes later, and Maddie wasn’t surprised. At this point, the man might as well get a room here at the resort.

Just as before, he indicated she should wait as he talked to several people near the hot tub.

Paramedics had arrived several minutes ago. They’d checked Maddie’s heart rate and breathing before declaring her “fine.”

Nico, on the other hand, had gone to the hospital to be examined.

As Maddie stood at the edge of the crowd, her limbs still shook. She’d been replaying what happened over and over again in her mind.

Nico could have so easily died.

Maddie could have too. Grabbing him with that towel had been risky. Yet she wouldn’t have been able to live with herself if she’d just stood there and watched the man be electrocuted.

While she waited for Kalani, she thought about what she wanted to say to him.

Maybe the detective wasn’t such a bad guy after all. Maybe he wasn’t looking for a reason to blame her for all that had gone wrong.

But Maddie promised herself at the first sign that he was trying to pull the wool over her eyes, she’d guard her words as if they were gold inside Fort Knox.

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