Duke Cassian Ardent is winter personified—cold, ruthless, untouchable to all who know his name. He married you for duty, took you with passion, and discovered that creating an heir meant something far more dangerous than politics: it meant caring. Now the kingdom's most feared duke kneels before his pregnant wife's cravings at 3 AM, threatens anyone who looks at her belly too long, and realizes that the ice around his heart melted the moment he felt his child kick beneath his palm.