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Her White Lie

Jackie Walsh
Chapters (72)
  1. Cover
  2. Dedication
  3. Chapter One
  4. Chapter Two
  5. Chapter Three
  6. Chapter Four
  7. Chapter Five
  8. Chapter Six
  9. Chapter Seven
  10. Chapter Eight
  11. Chapter Nine
  12. Chapter Ten
  13. Chapter Eleven
  14. Chapter Twelve
  15. Chapter Thirteen
  16. Chapter Fourteen
  17. Chapter Fifteen
  18. Chapter Sixteen
  19. Chapter Seventeen
  20. Chapter Eighteen
  21. Chapter Nineteen
  22. Chapter Twenty
  23. Chapter Twenty-One
  24. Chapter Twenty-Two
  25. Chapter Twenty-Three
  26. Chapter Twenty-Four
  27. Chapter Twenty-Five
  28. Chapter Twenty-Six
  29. Chapter Twenty-Seven
  30. Chapter Twenty-Eight
  31. Chapter Twenty-Nine
  32. Chapter Thirty
  33. Chapter Thirty-One
  34. Chapter Thirty-Two
  35. Chapter Thirty-Three
  36. Chapter Thirty-Four
  37. Chapter Thirty-Five
  38. Chapter Thirty-Six
  39. Chapter Thirty-Seven
  40. Chapter Thirty-Eight
  41. Chapter Thirty-Nine
  42. Chapter Forty
  43. Chapter Forty-One
  44. Chapter Forty-Two
  45. Chapter Forty-Three
  46. Chapter Forty-Four
  47. Chapter Forty-Five
  48. Chapter Forty-Six
  49. Chapter Forty-Seven
  50. Chapter Forty-Eight
  51. Chapter Forty-Nine
  52. Chapter Fifty
  53. Chapter Fifty-One
  54. Chapter Fifty-Two
  55. Chapter Fifty-Three
  56. Chapter Fifty-Four
  57. Chapter Fifty-Five
  58. Chapter Fifty-Six
  59. Chapter Fifty-Seven
  60. Chapter Fifty-Eight
  61. Chapter Fifty-Nine
  62. Chapter Sixty
  63. Chapter Sixty-One
  64. Chapter Sixty-Two
  65. Chapter Sixty-Three
  66. Chapter Sixty-Four
  67. Chapter Sixty-Five
  68. Chapter Sixty-Six
  69. Chapter Sixty-Seven
  70. A letter from Jackie
  71. About the Author
  72. Also by Jackie Walsh

Cover

Her White Lie

Dedication

For

Jason Carr

Chapter One

Tara

I can see it clearly. My new life. It’s perfect and ready to go. In three weeks’ time, I’ll be boarding a plane with my brand-new husband and leaving this life behind me. Australia is a long way away but it’s going to be wonderful. When I close my eyes I can imagine the sea air filling my senses. The smell of coconut sun lotion on my skin. The sizzle of sausages cooking on a nearby barbecue and beer fizzing from cans.

I’ll be meeting Lucas’s family and friends for the first time but I feel I know them already from the many virtual calls Lucas has made. At first I was shy, sitting beside him smiling and nodding into the laptop with nothing to say but I soon got the hang of it and joined in.

None of his family are travelling over here for the wedding but that doesn’t matter because we’ll be having a second celebration when we get there. His parents are throwing us a party, two days after we arrive. I’ll laugh and smile and be very polite because I want them to like me. I want his family to be happy that Lucas has found me. To know how much we are in love, how happy I make him, and he makes me.

Of course there’s a downside to all this and it’s a big one. My dad will still be living here in Dublin, on his own. Mam died three years ago. Also I’ll be saying goodbye to my friends who say they’ll come and visit but I know won’t. It’s Australia, not London.

But we will Skype and Facebook and WhatsApp for the first few months I imagine, maybe even the first year. And then things will move on. I’ll fade into the background of their lives. The calls will get less frequent. The WhatsApp groups will slowly dissolve, and I’ll be mentioned less and less until it will just be Tara Moore, do you remember her?

It makes me sad to think about it but it’s the way it is. I have to focus on the good stuff. I have a chance at a brilliant new life in Australia where I’ll make new friends. Everything is so exciting; sometimes I feel like I’m the luckiest woman alive.

That was ten minutes ago. Now I can barely breathe. My eyes are trying to blank out the image on the television screen. This cannot be happening.