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    One More Lie
    One More Lie
    One More Lie
    Ebook54 pages48 minutes

    One More Lie

    By Belinda Bennett

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    She loves him.
    He loves her.
    ...Or does he?

    Is any man worth risking your life for? Dying for? Dawn thinks so.

    It's the biggest night of her life and everything has to be perfect. This is the moment she has waited a lifetime for; the night Tony is going to ask her to marry him. Her hair is immaculate. Her face is glowing. Her world is about to be ripped apart.

    A storm stands between them - and things neither of them know.

    Lies.

    A truly twisted short story.

    *Inspired by a real journey aboard the X53 Jurassic Coaster, from Weymouth to Lyme Regis, during the Great Storm of 2014.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBelinda Bennett
    Release dateJul 7, 2017
    ISBN9781370074013
    One More Lie
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    Belinda Bennett

    Belinda Bennett started writing fiction at primary school. Always passionate about creative writing, her talents were diverted to journalism in her late teens after both her parents died.She was diagnosed with HER2+ inflammatory breast cancer on January 23, 2020. Currently undergoing chemotherapy and targeted therapies, she is hoping to undergo surgery later this year.A fierce supporter of the underdog, Belinda supports causes that help the homeless and those whose lives have been blighted by addiction.Belinda is a former journalist, newspaper editor and freelance copywriter. She lives by the sea on the Jurassic Coast in Dorset, England.

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      Book preview

      One More Lie - Belinda Bennett

      One

      More

      Lie

      Belinda Bennett

      Copyright © Belinda Bennett

      Published by BB Digital

      July 2017

      Edited December 2018

      One More Lie is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and events either are the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or events is entirely coincidental/fictitious.

      The Jurassic Coast is a World Heritage Site that straddles Devon and Dorset in the South West of England. The 95 miles of stunning coastline is rich in fossils and best-known for its ancient links to dinosaurs.

      Although entirely fictitious, One More Lie was inspired by an actual bus journey, taken by the author, along the Jurassic Coast during the Great Storms of 2013/14. Four people lost their lives when the first storm hit the UK in October 2013. More lives would be lost before the storms finally passed three months later. Falling trees and gas explosions proved deadly. Hundreds of thousands of homes were left without power, vast swathes of the countryside were swallowed up by floods and everyday life was impacted by impassable roads and 100mph winds. For those who lived through it, the ferocity of the storms was a seemingly never-ending nightmare.

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to your favorite ebook retailer and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Table of Contents

      Prologue

      Chapter One

      Chapter Two

      Chapter Three

      Chapter Four

      Chapter Five

      Chapter Six

      Chapter Seven

      Chapter Eight

      Chapter Nine

      Dear Reader

      About the Author

      Rain, rain, go away

      Come again another day

      Prologue

      I COULDN’T remember a day when it hadn’t rained. Some said it had been raining for forty days and forty nights, and that it was time we all built ourselves an ark. They were joking about the ark, of course, but they were right about the rain; it just plain refused to stop. I lost count of the number of times water as hard as pellets peppered my body and soaked through layers of sopping wet clothes to sting my ice cold skin. When I was outside, battling the elements, I yearned for the warmth of home – dry, clean clothes and a crackling log fire.

      It wasn’t the kind of rain you could tap dance in, like Gene Kelly. It was grim; unrelenting in its ferocity, lashing the coast in winds exceeding one hundred miles per hour. It was coming down in stair rods amid lightning strikes and from acrid, thunderous skies. It was the kind of rain you hid from, couldn’t even look at; prayed would peter out.

      ‘Come here, Dawn, get warm,' my mother said every night, holding out her open arms, ready to rub me down with a towel when I arrived home from work. She made me feel like a child again. She feared I'd catch pneumonia, she said, and I laughed that off. It was plain silly. I just wanted it to stop, the rain; I wanted the sun to come out and for the dank, dark days of winter to be overtaken by the bright cheeriness of Spring.

      The sun was already shining in my heart, stoked by happiness, and I wanted the world around me to be bathed in the same light. I was more in love than I had ever been in my entire twenty-six years on the planet. Tony was my present and my future. My past didn’t seem to exist. We had everything to look forward to. Everything.

      Just by the way he looked at me when he told me he had something extra special planned

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