[Ivar frowns, though he knows Thor isn't asking out of maliciousness the way some might. It's still a sensitive subject for the Viking.]

I never said I was her natural father now, did I? Letha was already pregnant by her husband when she got here. But I knew that Winter was going to need a father, so I stepped up.

[He'd never even hesitated. He wasn't going to let Winter be abandoned the way his own father had done to him.]