She looked at her parents with the directness of someone delivering information they needed to hear and trust. "I know where Jeremy is going to be today. I am not guessing, I am not hoping - I know." She let that land before continuing. "There is a coffee shop - a specific one that carries particular significance for Jeremy in connection with Mia. It was the place where Mia first called him Papa. The first time she ever said that word, it happened in that coffee shop." Patricia's voice carried something complicated and layered as she spoke about this - the knowledge of it clearly coming from a place of genuine shared history rather than secondhand information. "Jeremy marks that day every single year without fail. He goes back to that specific coffee shop on that specific date, without exception, because that is who Jeremy is underneath all the stubbornness and all the walls he has built around himself. Whatever else he might be doing with his life, whatever women he might be takin