I looked at Teo, who shook his head slightly, as if to tell me to move on. I remembered Sophie’s lecture about fake IDs. How many times had a patron left a credit card or license on this man’s bar and walked off without it? Pocketing the credentials of somebody he resembled might have been easy.

I moved on. “If you weren’t going to be seen with her, what was the point of being there?”

“Come on, lady. We weren’t there to socialize. It was no big deal. I checked in and texted her where I was. She joined me, and we ordered room service.”

I didn’t want to hear what else they did. “What happened then?”

“The next morning she said she was going to look around, make notes and stuff, talk to employees. She said there were some good hiking trails and I ought to enjoy my day, that I’d see her later in the afternoon. After she left, though, I decided to go down to the lobby and get information about what else I could do. I had to pass the bar, and I saw Wendy inside. She was arguing with an older guy. Turned out, he was the doctor.”

“Were they loud? Is that how you knew?”

“Loud enough, and she was waving her arms. At one point he pushed her away.”

“Did you confront him?”

“No. The fight—and that’s the right word—was dying down by then. She backed away, and he turned to leave. I knew we weren’t supposed to be seen together, and since it looked like the trouble had ended, I watched from the doorway. She left by another door, and Calvo came out my side. He looked upset, even bumped into me without apologizing.”

“Was anybody else around?”

“It was close to the lobby, but I wasn’t paying attention to anything but the fight.”

“Did you hear anything that was said?” I asked.

“They were across the room. I couldn’t hear Wendy, but when he started in my direction I heard the doctor tell her she’d better leave him alone, or she would be sorry.”

“So he threatened her.”

“That’s what I thought at the time.”

“But not now?”

“He’s dead. She isn’t.”

A chill coursed down my spine. Teo asked Ex to go on.

He was speaking faster now, in a hurry to finish. “I gave her some time to calm down, then I went back to the casita. She was already there. I told her I’d seen her fighting with a guy in the bar, and she said he was a surgeon from someplace in South America. She claimed she knew him because he’d been interested in investing, and she’d shown him around one of the Gracey Group resorts. She claimed that he got drunk and attacked her, and she barely got away. Since then he’d been stalking her, and this wasn’t the first time he’d showed up. Calvo was part of the reason she’d asked me to register for both of us, just in case, but somehow he’d found her anyway.”