Lies Between Us: a tense psychological thriller with a twist you won’t see coming. Ronnie Turner

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      ‘Jules.’ He wipes hair from her eyes and smiles. ‘Jules, Bonnie would want us to enjoy this. She’d want to be here with us. Right now she’d probably be sitting here—’ he pats the examination bed ‘—and staring at the screen with that look she gets when she’s excited. She’d be jumping into my arms and telling me all the things she’s going to do with him.’ John wipes her cheek and holds her hand. ‘She’d be telling us about the books she’ll write for him, the jokes she’ll tell him. She’d be happy. Excited. And when she comes back, when the police find her, we need to be ready. She needs to come home to a happy house, not to us as we are.’

      Jules tucks her hair behind her ear and nods slowly, her face regaining some of its composure. ‘You’re right. I know you are.’

      ‘What do you want to call him?’ John gestures to the screen, mesmerised by their baby.

      She runs her hand across her stomach, smiling. ‘Bonnie wanted to call him Bertie.’

      ‘Bertie it is.’

      *

       She pulls on his hand and points to the floor. ‘Just a minute, Daddy. I dropped a penny.’ She leans down, chubby fingers reaching out. He stops her. ‘Leave it, sweetheart. It will give someone good luck.’

       ‘Will it?’

       ‘Yes.’ John kneels down and squeezes her hand. ‘In an hour or two, someone will see that penny. And they’ll kneel down like you and I are doing now. They’ll pick it up and for the rest of the day they’ll have good luck. All because of you. Because you left it there for them to find.’

       She smiles and looks from him to the coin. ‘Really?’

       ‘Really, really.’

       She fumbles through her pink purse and gently drops another next to it. ‘Now they’ll have more luck.’

       John nods and grins. He takes her hand and they walk down the street. When they come back, the money is gone and Bonnie smiles all the way home.

       Chapter 12

      Maisie

      Sunday 17 January, 2016

      She looks at him as if she can’t decide whether he is really asleep or playing a game and at any moment will jump up from his bed and pull her into his arms. Her eyes snag on the tubes and needles embedded in his skin and all of a sudden fear slips through the cracks. The girl looks at Maisie, then studies the machines, small hand guiding a clump of hair to her mouth. She chews, and Maisie can see a glob of spit in the corner. A thousand different emotions jump across her features and for a moment Maisie is fascinated by their depth. Confusion. Hope. Surprise. Worry. Love.

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