Another ice cracked in his cold heart and fell away.

He couldn't stop staring at her. At the slight reactions she wasn't aware of. The nervous way her hand gripped her nightclothes, the flush of her cheeks, the flash of her eyes.

His body has been reacting to her since he rose from slumber, but now, his phallus only hardened and lengthened.

He doesn't know that a man could get this way even when he's unwell, and most definitely, not a man like him. What ...