He was never supposed to find them. Now he will never let them go.Nico Valenti is the cold, controlled Consigliere of the Cielo crime family, a man who calculates every move with ruthless precision. Emotion is a liability. Attachment is a threat. But when a federal leak exposes Dr. Isla Dawson as the next target in a mafia war, Nico does the unthinkable. He goes after her.He expects betrayal. He expects danger.He does not expect to find a sixteen-year-old girl with his own dark eyes staring back at him.For sixteen years, Isla has protected their daughter from the world Nico inhabits. She built her life on quiet routines, careful lies, and the hope that distance would keep the shadows away. Now, dragged into Nico's fortified Manhattan penthouse, the safety she fought for feels like a cage lined with velvet and steel.Nico has lived by a code of duty that cost him everything. Fatherhood was never part of the equation. Yet the moment he sees his daughter, the equation changes. The man who has never hesitated to spill blood will burn cities before he lets anyone touch what is his.But danger is already inside the walls.A traitor hides in the Cielo ranks.The FBI is circling.And the past they buried is clawing its way back to the surface.Isla fears the possessive, relentless protector Nico has become. She also fears the truth she cannot unsee: the way he watches her, the way the years have sharpened desire into something lethal, the way one touch can erase sixteen years of distance.As hunters close in and betrayal fractures the foundations of the empire, one question remains.Can a man made of ice become the weapon that saves his family, or will loving them be the weakness that destroys them all?