Midnight At The Blackbird Cafe

The reporter interviews Summer about the pie. She mentions that she enjoys the pie, but that her father never partakes because he insists the past should remain in the past.

Natalie rushes home to the guest house behind her parents’ house. She is angry with her parents because they never told her about Anna Kate. As Natalie feeds, bathes, and puts Ollie to bed, she thinks of how different Ollie’s childhood is from her own. Seelie was cold and distant, often harsh in setting and enforcing rules when Natalie was young. It is clear Seelie wanted to keep Natalie safe after AJ’s death, but Natalie did not always see it that way. Natalie also thinks about her husband Matthew. She wonders, not for the first time, if his fatal boating accident was truly an accident. After Matthew’s death, Natalie discovered he was in heavy debt. She worries his fear of telling her the truth is what led to his death. Now she lives in her parents’ guest house because she doesn’t have a job and can’t pay her way.

Natalie finds a box from her mother with a letter attached. The box contains a child’s bathing suit, and the letter explains the daughter of a friend is going to give Ollie swimming lessons.