Lie To Me: A gripping and compelling domestic psychological thriller by Joanne Ryan

Author:Joanne Ryan [Ryan, Joanne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Tamarillas Press
Published: 2022-11-24T16:00:00+00:00

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‘I feel much better, Layla.’ Mum looks better, not so pale, but the drip is still in her arm. ‘They’ve changed the antibiotics now,’ she says, following the direction of my gaze. ‘These ones don’t make me feel sick and I should be out of here in a couple of days.

‘So is the wound healing?’ I ask.

‘As far as I know, darling. I haven’t actually managed to get a look at it but it’s starting to itch, now, which is apparently a good sign.’

‘That’s good,’ I agree.

‘I just wish.’ Mum takes my hand and holds it. ‘That I’d confided in you in the first place. I haven’t given you enough credit, you’re no longer a little girl but a grown up, responsible woman and I’m sorry that I haven’t treated you that way.’

I smile but her words sting, because Will’s parting words of grow up, come back to me. My stupid idea to surprise him turned into disaster and I wish that I’d never gone over there. I haven’t heard from him since, which isn’t unusual because we don’t constantly text each other because Will can’t when she’s with him, but I can’t help thinking that he’s going off me. When I slipped into bed and put my arms around him, he turned and embraced me but he didn’t know it was me, did he?

He must have thought I was Lucinda.

And he was naked. He sleeps with her naked.

‘They’re talking about letting me out on Tuesday,’ Mum says. ‘I can get back home and we can get back to normal, can’t we? I’m so looking forward to sleeping in my own bed again.’

Mum’s been in hospital for less than a week but it feels as if my life has completely changed in that time.

I’ve completely changed.

So next week Mum will be home and then I can ask her about the letter and whether it’s a mistake, and why she opened it. It’s a mistake, I know it, because no way can I believe that Mum has lied to me for all of my life, it’s just not possible. She’s not a liar.

Not like me.

But there’s that doubt; what if she has lied?

I have to face the possibility that for reasons unknown to me, Mum has been lying to me for all of my life and if this is so, then that can only mean one thing.

My birth mother is out there looking for me.

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