Vexing Child, a story of the 4th Husband 'Verse, available on Patreon

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This is set in the same universe as Lady Taisiya's Fourth Husband , a world where women are far more rare than men and most women have at least three husbands. Men co-raise their wife's children ("egglings"), but there is a strict hierarchy within the household.

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“You are, without a doubt, the most difficult child I have ever had the misfortune to know.”

Pontlin was not Kivo’s shell-father — that was Yurnan, Lady Ruhinna’s most junior husband — but he was the senior husband and thus the senior father in the nursery, and he had taken a dislike to Kivo early. This wasn’t even the first time Kivo had heard this particular tirade this cycle, although Pontlin, who had wanted to be a performer, always added a certain twist to his lectures, a bit of dramatic flair.

“It is as if you look, specifically, for the most vexing thing you could do, and then try in some manner to make it more vexing...”

read on...

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