A war tent still smells of blood and old leather, but on this morning the scent of rations turns her stomach. Kalia has broken sieges, routed armies, and stared down monsters that would send veterans screaming — yet a healer's single question leaves her gripping the edge of a camp table. Pregnant. The father is Simon Terroan, Archmage of the realm, her oldest friend, the man she spent exactly one unguarded night with and has avoided looking in the eye ever since. He is brilliant, titled, drowning in candidates for a proper noble marriage. She is a commoner who clawed her way to commander. A child does not bridge that gap — a child is a burden no war hero is supposed to bring to a man who never asked for one .

Before the morning sickness can betray her, Kalia vanishes. She resigns her commission, slips away while Simon is deployed abroad, and buries herself in a quiet nowhere where no one recognizes the general who saved the continent. She will raise this baby alone. It is the only plan that does not force her to watch rejection flicker across the face of the one person whose disappointment would annihilate her. But Kalia has miscalculated one thing: Simon has been in love with her longer than any battlefield has run red, and the frantic search he launches when he finds her gone is not the reaction of a man who "doesn't want the baby." He is not looking for his friend. He is hunting for the family someone stole from him before he could even say yes .

Also known as: It's Not Your Baby!, 너의 아이가 아니야, It's Not Your Child.