My parents tried every legal way that they could to get me back, to no avail. Predictably Sue turned out to be a very neglectful and abusive parent, and a horrible person.
My clever parents came up with a way to get custody of me but they had to sacrifice their relationship and my fathers happiness. They offered Sue a cottage called the Spindle on the condition that she marry my father (which gave him back full custody of me). Her spite ensured that she agreed. To her she had upstaged another female, to my parents they had my destiny back in their hands.
My mother found another partner, he died in a car accident and after that I never saw her again.
I lived in the ancient flint cottage with my father and the hateful and horrible step surrogate mother. She wasn’t just casually neglectful, she was horrifically spiteful. She did the worst things that she could do to people and exhibited a kind of miserable joy from doing so.
It was this kind of spite that later in life I encountered in all its horrific violence that was a central element that led to my murder.