Green With Envy by Keene Carolyn

Green With Envy by Keene Carolyn

Author:Keene, Carolyn [Keene, Carolyn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Age Range 1 Younger Audience, Childrens, Young Adult, Mystery
ISBN: 9781416978428
Amazon: 1416978429
Goodreads: 6643137
Publisher: Aladdin
Published: 2010-02-09T08:00:00+00:00


DEEPER AND DEEPER

“It’s lucky the line broke before you passed the drop-off into the canopy,” Bess said, her voice shaking.

I just nodded. She and George—and many of the others—had said the same thing multiple times in the ten minutes since my fall. And they were right. Five seconds later, and I wouldn’t have been sitting there with nothing worse than a few scratches and bruises. I’d tumbled down only about fifteen feet, with a leafy palm tree and a small, muddy pond softening my fall.

“Are you sure you wouldn’t like to leave now?” Enrique asked, his eyes wide and his voice frantic. I’d never seen him so upset, not even during the whole Juliana situation.

“No, I’m fine,” I insisted again. “I don’t want to ruin everyone else’s fun.”

I glanced around, wondering just how much fun the others were having. Kat had been hysterical since the incident, babbling “It could have been me!” over and over again while clutching Pretty Boy to her chest. Young Robin looked shaken and pale, while her mother, Hildy, was keeping a baleful eye on the video cameras, which she’d ordered shut off immediately after my fall. Frankie was insisting to anyone who would listen that she would use her investigative journalism skills to get to the bottom of this. The zip line people were horrified, chattering incessantly at one another in Spanish in between profuse apologies to all of us in English, with the manager offering me free zip line passes for life.

In the midst of all this, Poppy wandered up to the group. I realized I hadn’t seen her since following her out to the restroom earlier; I wasn’t even sure whether she’d ever come back inside to eat lunch or not.

“What’s going on?” she asked, pushing her fashionably oversize sunglasses farther up her nose.

Adam hurried over. “You missed all the action, babe,” he said, putting a protective arm around her. “There was a malfunction and Nancy took a tumble.”

Poppy shook off his arm. “She did? What happened?”

Several voices spoke up at once, eagerly describing the accident. Meanwhile, George leaned toward me.

“Are you sure you don’t want to head back to the resort, Nance?” she asked quietly. “We might all be better off. What if the same thing happens again?”

“I doubt it will,” I said, doing my best to shake off the last of my shock. “This zip line place has the best safety record in Costa Rica, remember? Alicia mentioned that on the drive over. What are the odds the line would break while we were here—especially right after I saw someone lurking around out there near the base of the platforms?”

“What?” Bess exclaimed softly. “Who was lurking?”

Looking around to make sure no one else was paying attention, I quickly filled them in on that mysterious figure. George let out a gasp.

“Do you think it could have been Phyllis?” she asked.

I shrugged. “Yeah,” I said. “But I’m really not sure at all. The point is, whoever it was could’ve sneaked out and messed with the equipment while all of us were inside.



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