Jeremiah was the picture of a perfect escort for her. Even her lack of acknowledgement was handled with an easy grace and charm. He walked with her through the hospital as if the place was beneath them; as if the place was not meant for the likes of them (and it was not). His eyes, those bright blue-green eyes, did not need to search out somewhere to cross over. No, he simply had to escort her to the
right place.
It was not hard to find, a place that no one was, and with Melany on his arm they stepped from one side to the other. Once there the truth was obvious, as to what was going on, but Jeremiah said nothing. Instead she was escorted, as he said he would, back to Court and then-
Then he would stop by to see Ezra and let him know that the Spinel Lady had returned.
It later turned out that the nurses and the staff could not, in all honesty, remember just whom had come to talk with them about Ashley Graham and surveillance video was of no help either (because it had been scrambled; nothing but noise for an hour).
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