A Secret Shared.... Marion Lennox

It’s not necessary to tell you all the gruesome facts. Just that I didn’t take forgery and theft lying down. It wasn’t just me he robbed but I was the one who sent him to jail. So Simon still hates me and he’s lethal. Ten years on, he’s been in and out of jail and I’m still afraid of him. His hatred is out of all context, off the wall. So I’m Kate. I changed my name. I scraped together enough from our assets to go overseas. I worked as a waitress while I retrained as a physiotherapist. I did some psychology too—in some ways it helped with the stuff that had happened to me. The university in Auckland was supportive. My medical degree meant additional qualifications were fast-tracked and I qualified with my new name.

      ‘Then I heard about this place. Even though it was back in Australia, a dolphin sanctuary three hundred miles from the nearest city seemed perfect. I can vet clients before taking bookings. If there’s a familiar name I can say we’re full up, as we nearly always are. It’s only because Harry was booked in under his aunt’s name that I missed you.’