"None of that," Freyja said with a shake of her head. "But I'm not with him all the time. I offered to have us move in together, either at his home or mine, but he found excuses for why it wouldn't work."
She leaned over to try and see the book Merlin was looking in, spotting the illustration of some hunched beast. Imagine something like that, squeezing itself inside Freyr and controlling him. How dare anything violate her brother like this. "If this thing brings harm to Freyr," she said, her tone shifting into something much darker, "I will curse its soul to suffer for all eternity, this promise I make."