Lyra's POV
“You did what?” I can’t believe what I’m hearing.
“Relax,” Cassian says, grinning casually as if what he just finished telling me wasn’t the most insanely dangerous thing in the world. “We were never in any danger.”
“You were never in any danger? They were Ravagers, Cassian!”
My hands move all over his body, checking to make sure he’s really whole and intact.
“Do you remember what you looked like the last time you went up against Ravagers? You barely walked away from that fight.”
“Exactly,” he says, looking me deep in my eyes. “Don’t you get it? That’s why I had to fight again.”
“What do you mean?”
“I don’t lose fights,” he says. “And my wolf, in particular, doesn’t lose fights. We just don’t.”
It’s something I’ve heard him say before, but in the past, I always interp
