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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

I think Sean noticed a chip in my façade because when we left the station he reminded me it was important I hid nothing from him. He needed all the facts if he was going to help me. I told him he had all the facts. I had never met Avril Ryan. Which I believed to be true.

But now I’m not so sure. The more I think about it, Avril Ryan must have had something to do with that website or the detective wouldn’t have mentioned it in the interview.

I didn’t tell Sean the ‘Cabhrui’ website the detective mentioned was where I illegally sourced the Nembutal for my mam’s death three years ago.

Chapter Forty-Two

It took another half hour before we packed into the elevator and left for the pub. The smell of alcohol in the confines of the small space did not go unnoticed by the couple who were waiting to get into the elevator after us. One of the women was just short of holding her nose. Her face shrivelled up when the door opened and the waft of beer hit her.

‘Sorry,’ Lucas said with a grin on his face as he stepped out. He put his arm around my shoulders and we walked out the door.

Lucas has been really busy this week wrapping up at his office. He had to stay late most nights which didn’t bother me. I was busy with the last minute stuff for the wedding and I had to rearrange some of the seating arrangements when we got a final attendance number. I was glad I had something to keep me busy because when the middle of the night came and I lay in the darkness of the bedroom, the heat from Lucas’s body radiating into mine, my mind took off in search of its own adventure. Exaggerating every possible scenario including, would you believe, what I would study if I did end up in prison.

This could go on for hours well into the morning trying to piece together the jigsaw from the few pieces of information the detectives had given me. Why did Avril Ryan ring me? What had she to do with ‘Cabhrui’?

The only thing I can come up with is that she actually ran the site. Avril Ryan may have been the person who sold me the cocktail of drugs for my mother.

I didn’t see enough of the woman to identify her. It was all very brief, a clandestine mission that Andriu drove me to.