The Man Who Should Not Be Here Lyra's POV Someone was standing in the middle of the road… waiting for us. My breath caught, the figure did not move, did not speak, just stood there under the weak moonlight like he had all the time in the world. Darius then stepped in front of me at once and his body blocked half my view and every warrior around us went tensed. Weapons lifted, feet shifted and no one breathed and my wolf stirred hard inside me, not with fear but with warning. Then the figure took one step forward and moonlight touched his face and my heart stopped. It was Kael and I froze. and for one second, I could not even think, I just stared, he was really here, and his black shirt was ripped near the shoulder. There was blood on his arm and his jaw was

