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her—couldn’t blame her for that.” Vic grinned as Bo pretended to take a swing at him. “Never mind, looks like it’s just us guys. Last one in’s a rotten egg!”
    Letting out a whoop, he raced over and flung himself into the deep end, landing in a sloppy cannonball with a loud splash. Both of the other guys followed,hitting the water at the same time. Soon all three of them were bobbing around out there. Vic floated on his back, closing his eyes as he drifted under the edge of the waterfall.
    Meanwhile Butch had finished his break and was now filming away with the others. “You’re not giving us much here, guys,” he called out in his usual gruff way. “How’s about doing something we couldn’t film at any kiddie pool in the world?”
    “Like what?” Vic flipped over and started treading water. “You want me to ride a Jet Ski through here or something?”
    Butch let out a snort. “Look, I’m just saying. We only have a week on this boring little island, and your girl seems to be in hiding, and Eberhart’ll flip if we don’t get anything he can use.”
    “Yeah, he’s right about that,” Madge muttered. “Where
is
that Sydney, anyway?”
    “So what did you have in mind, bro?” Vic asked Butch loudly. I could tell he was deliberately ignoring the question about Sydney’s whereabouts. “I mean, this is a pool, not a stunt show.”
    “Look, I dunno. I’m no director.” Butch shot a look at the thirty-foot rock mountain. “You could climb up there and dive in or something. Even that’d be more
Daredevils
than floating around like a bunch of old ladies.”
    Vic cast a lazy glance up at the wall. Then he turned over on his back again, not rising to the cameraman’s taunt.
    “Maybe later,” he said with a yawn. “It’s been a long week, you know?”
    Butch scowled. “Gonna be a lot of long weeks if you actually land the cohosting gig next season, boy,” he muttered.
    “Whatever.” Vic yawned, then glanced over at Bo. “How about if Captain Champion here goes first? I dare you, dude.”
    Bo squinted up the mountain too. “I dunno,” he said. “Looks like a tough climb, and I’m in relaxation mode right now, you know?”
    Just then I caught a flash of movement at the edge of the palm grove. Glancing over, I saw that Lainie had just crept back into the pool area, looking slightly sheepish.
    Bo spotted her too. “On the other hand, what the heck,” he said, already swimming for the edge. “Anything to liven up this dead party, huh?”
    He hoisted himself out of the pool, strutting and thumping his chest as he headed for the base of the man-made mountain. Soon he was clambering up, still shouting and showing off as usual.
    “There you go,” Vic told Butch. “Happy now?”
    Butch just shrugged, turning his camera to followBo. One of the other cameramen came over for a better angle too.
    “Men!” Bess shook her head, looking amused. “They’ll do anything to impress a pretty girl.”
    I chuckled. “Should we go check on Sydney?” I asked. “It seems like a good time to sneak over to Akinyi’s cabin, with all the other major players occupied here.”
    “Sure.” George shaded her eyes as she followed Bo’s climb. “But wait, let’s watch Bo jump first. I want to see if he lands on Vic or Jamal on his way down. That would be totally
Daredevils
.”
    Bo reached the top and raised both arms over his head. “I’m king of the world, baby!” he howled playfully, striding out toward a slab of stone overhanging the top of the waterfall. “I’m king of the—
oof!
”
    The rock suddenly shifted with a sickening scraping sound. A second later it collapsed sideways, sending Bo tumbling head over heels, banging and crashing down the face of the rock wall.

SHADOWS, SACRIFICES, AND SUSPICIONS
     
    “It’s lucky Bo knows how to fall thanks to all his adventures on the show,” George commented. It was dinnertime, and my friends and I had gathered in the open-air restaurant along with