He smiles, and wipes at an eye. "You might be right. I can't say no to a woman who fights so hard to protect what she loves."

Greg turns to her, brow faintly furrowed. "When we first got together... I barely remembered anything about her. I thought the two of you couldn't be less alike." Neither of them knew of Meril's origins by that point, but there was far more to it than that.