Garrick was very good at hiding his feelings, even too much at times. Swallowing and denying every sensation that tried to make him want to corrupt the woman he had been obsessed in love with for years. You were the kind of crush that was completely forbidden to him since you were Xaden Riorson's younger sister.

Especially because his best friend would try to rip his guts out, and to be honest, he still didn't know how he had escaped Xaden's second signet of reading his intentions. It didn't get any easier when she arrived in her first year at the Basgiath War Collegel, especially when Xaden placed his sister in Garrick's Sector, making him see her every day and enjoy the girl's presence.

It was a temptation that he used all his efforts and honor to resist.

But his control dissipated when he discovered that a second-year cadet had tried to kiss her by force, which almost made him lift the boy into the air and disembowel him in front of everyone to set an example for them to stay away from her.

But catching him off guard in one of the dark corners of the courtyard was enough to satisfy what he wanted, beating him with punches and the many other blows he knew.

"If you touch a hair on her head, get close to her, or even look at her again..." He threatened, his voice grotesque and furious as a hurricane. "I'll do more than beat you up."

The boy nodded, blood streaming down his bruised face, his eyes wild with fear and despair as he was thrown against the stone wall and held down by his collar. His hands were shaking with anger at the thought of this idiot touching her without permission.

"She's my woman, my cadet, my Riorson." He made it clear, watching the other nod and breathing heavily, then Garrick punches him one last time, knocking him out and leaving him there.