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Back Her White Lie
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

The silence that follows is broken only by the sound of the cutlery hitting off the plate. This is not a nice atmosphere and I’m afraid that Lucas will get fed up with my constant panicking. I need to change the subject so I tell him about the surprise visit from Andriu. I don’t mention what Andriu said about Faye in the end because I still can’t get my head around it. Why did he ask me if I thought Faye was involved? Does he think she was involved? Of course she wasn’t – unless Andriu knows something about her that I don’t. Now that I think about it, it was weird the way she ended our friendship when she left Huntley Lodge. At the time I was confused, so full of grief that I didn’t pay any attention to what was happening around me. I thought Faye was leaving to get away from Huntley Lodge and the memories it held of Andriu. I didn’t realise she was leaving me too. That she would never answer my calls or try to see me again. If I had known that she was ending our friendship for good, I would have asked her why. But she never gave me the chance. As time passed, I decided Faye wanted me out of her life because of what we had done? That she needed to forget about that night and I was just a constant reminder. But now I’m not so sure. Maybe I didn’t know her as well as I thought I did.

I’m telling Lucas he’ll get to meet Andriu on Friday when he comes to Reilly’s pub and I’m almost licking the plate clean, the dinner is so delicious, when the buzzer goes.

‘Who’s that?’ Lucas says, slightly annoyed that we’re being disturbed.

‘I don’t know.’ Then it hits me. ‘Shit, I forgot to cancel Amy. She was bringing me to the airport to pick up Andriu.’ I swallow the last of my wine and laugh as I go to the intercom to buzz her up.

‘The sooner we get to Australia and I can have you all to myself, the better,’ he says. ‘No more Amy or detectives or Andriu interfering in our life.’

I laugh at his words but something inside me cries. This is really happening. I’m leaving everyone behind. My dad, my friends, my past.

Well, maybe not the past. I won’t be able to leave that behind. What I’ve done is not going to disappear from my memory just because I get on a plane. Even if it is a twenty-four-hour journey. My past will stay with me. Packed in my head. Baggage that can’t be lost at Heathrow.

Chapter Thirty-Three