*Gretchen POV*
When Melian showed up at the Mill House out of the blue, I had a gut feeling about what she wanted. Was I ready to face those memories? I wasn't sure, but knew it was time to face the past. I started to tell her about how my parents sent me away to boarding school and that I had met her grandfather, Albert, shortly after. She was listening intently, and I slowly verbalized the memories from way back then.
"He was incredibly handsome, and it was definitely lust at first sight. We became friends pretty quickly, and eventually we became intimate. We weren't mates, but the relationship was worth the risk of heartache. Albert was a good man, or at least at the time he was. We dated for almost a year, and I fell pregnant with your uncles, Jorma and Leif. We were both on cloud 9
