Dreading the coroner's call

Daddy Blackbird #6

Steve and baby Ada

As the agonising hours ticked by, the thoughts came and went but the total bewilderment remained.

So many things were a mystery at that point. ‘Why?’ being the key question.

‘Why would he do this? Why did he not say anything? Why would he just leave his children and do something so unthinkable?’

We also didn’t yet know where and how Steve ended his own life...