Joel winked at me and strode back out of the room.
Maryellen seemed hesitant now that she was being left with Dominick. She stepped back from him and came to stand beside me.
"Ah, Madam, in all the excitement I forgot why I approached you originally," Dominick said digging into his pants pocket. "I've been wanting to return these to you."
Dominick handed me a set of earrings. Tiger's eye surrounded by a band of silver, I had been wearing them the day Cedric arrived. When I shifted they had been thrust out of my ears.
"How did you find these?" I asked.
"I saw the first one land, so I looked and found the other one," he said and then assured me. "They fell in the dirt, but I washed them."
He had found the backs to the earrings, too. I looked at the delicate jewelry in my palm and then
