Merrick's POV
I had thought that Helen was comfortable walking on her two feet and for that reason, I had chosen for us to use the stairs on our way down, I had noticed that she had gotten a bit freer with me than she previously was, had chosen to attribute this to the fact that she had begun to trust me more given that I had helped her so much on her path to full fitness, at least I thought so as she had no reason to get so free with me without knowing anything about me or seeing that none of her questions had been satisfactorily answered.
I thought about it while I helped her down the stairs and as she leaned in towards me, it began to get clearer to me, that it might have been very possible that she had recalled some memory that had Henry's face in it, it was the only way I could expl
