" Are you okay? Are you feeling any pain?" Hendrik asked without making eye contact.

Freya realized something was wrong. " Hendrik, I'm fine. It's nothing. I've been beaten up before, so..."

" What?" Hendrik didn't even wait for Freya to finish speaking, raising his gaze and furrowing his brow. " By your ex?"

Freya found Hendrik's reaction somewhat cute when she said she had been beaten up before.

" No, Wilhelm can be anything, an idiot, but no , not to that extent. He's not a woman ...