CHAPTER 4: Don't Interfere.

Thoros Myr's POV

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I wasn't going to interfere. I really wasn't going to. My strategy for being here in Crescent Moon was to stay as invisible as possible, bidding my time till I got the signal I needed.

But today is my first day and I already stirred a buzz unintentionally. Apparently, I arrived two weeks late and I am being considered something of a legend because of my name. My clan. My pack. My family.

I thought they were kissing and I recognised the blonde haired boy as the Crescent Moon prick I met earlier. But then something made me hesitate and I heard the soft whimper of the girl that alerted me because of how weak and painful it sounded, still I was going to just walk past.

I can't be getting involved with Rand this early. It is entirely too soon. It would set my plans back a notch if we crossed paths now.

But I couldn't ignore the girl. She was red haired and small in front of the bastard. It was just like him to prey on a weaker person. So, I ignored all the warning signs in my head and did the last thing I wanted.

"Fuck off. This is a private matter." The brat growls at me. His wolf form sitting just behind his icy blue eyes, the bastard was threatening a girl with his wolf. Something stirs in my blood at the thought and I shut off the warning voices in my head permanently, I couldn't ignore this.

"It didn't seem like that to me." I say, pushing off the wall to take a step towards them, the girl turns fully to me and I stop. Her red hair frames her oval face like a halo of fire and her cheeks are bright red in the warm midnight lighting of the dormitory reception. She is stunning in a disarming manner. It stokes something in my chest to imagine how she could have been in whatever this situation was with Rand.

She is staring at me with wide bright green eyes and I have to pull my eyes away from her with considerable effort. I didn't see her during the class introductions. I am sure of it because there was no way I wouldn't remember that face. Fuck. She is stunning. I drag my eyes to Rand behind her, hatred flares in my chest like a furnace being fed fuel.

"Fuck off. That is my final warning, Valgerd. This has nothing to do with you." Rand bites at me, baring his teeth. The fucking coward. I take a step forward. The girl in front of me goes pale. It is an absurd thought to have in the moment but I think about how I miss the rosy hue of colour on her cheeks.

"Are you okay?" I ask her, ignoring Rand for a second. She is more important. I am doing this for her afterall.

She doesn't answer, she just averts her eyes and rubs at her right elbow. I follow her fingers and the angry inflamed colour of a bruise forming on the skin around her elbow makes me feel like I might combust in an instant with how much powerful anger floods through me.

"Hey, are you okay?" I reach for her and she stiffens, her skin is unbelievably soft under my fingertips as I brush her arm.

Rand is in front of me in an instant, grabbing my hand away from her. She flinches and I almost lose my balance due to the force Rand put into the motion.

"Get your hands off her! Valgerd, what the fuck?" Rand glares at me, keeping the girl behind him.

I raise my head at him, I let my wolf shine through my eyes for a second, I can't let it out, not yet. I shouldn't even be making it known, I am stepping way out of my meticulous plans for this green eyed girl whose name I didn't even know.

"I knew you were a piece of shit, but hurting and intimidating a girl? That is so low, Thor. Embarrassing." I spit out. The night air is still around us, I can feel the eyes of the idiots in their rooms watching us. This must be an interesting show for them.

Fuck my efforts to be invisible in this school. Immediately I stepped through the gates, I attracted attention. And it pointed to this confrontation because of our ill crossed history.

This was inevitable, but I wouldn't have wanted it to be happening now. It is premature. I am showing my cards too soon. I have spent years planning and I am throwing it all away for this strange girl with fiery hair.

"You don't know shit. Fuck off." Rand snaps. I look into his eyes, stare right into his wolf's crystalline eyes, letting him know I wasn't deterred by him. Nor scared. I have spent years studying the Crescent Moon s, the cub of their Alpha heir barely scares me.

Rand is a frightened boy under a lot of pressure to prove himself to his father, he is hardly my point of concern. Just a stepping stone to reach my goal.

"Hi, should I leave you alone with him? Are you okay? If you are not comfortable being left alone with him, I can offer to take you back to your dorm. I will not leave without being assured of your safety, so just say the word."

I say out loud, letting the girl behind Rand's scowling face in front of me know that I am still here. I don't know the situation between them but something refuses to let me just leave.

"What the fuck do you mean you need to be assured of her safety? Why wouldn't she be safe with me? She is mine, Valgerd. My fated mate. So, run along now." There is something ugly and possessive in Rand's growl.

His fated mate? Fuck. I don't know why my heart seems to drop at the words. What the fuck is happening to me? This is so out of character.

"I will come with you, thank you." The girl speaks to me for the first time, walking out of Rand's cover with her head held high, not looking at Rand who is scowling at her with disbelief. Her soft voice floats to me like a song and something dangerous and foreign flares to life in my chest.