"Underage?" "I'm of age!" "Do you know what you're here for?" "I know. I'll do it well."
A girl forced to drop out of school had only meant to apply for a part-time cleaning job — but she turned out to be a little white rabbit already being hunted, and ended up pregnant with triplets after a single night. "I... don't actually dislike her touch?" Word had it that the capital's most feared lord was cold, ruthless and utterly contemptuous of women — some even said he might never father a child. Yet she was the one woman whose hold over him he could not control.
He had meant only to bring her home to bear his child, but step by step he sank in deeper than he ever intended. Her parasitic relatives bullying his wife? He dealt with them brutally. Her factory colleagues bullying his wife? Every one of them was fired and blacklisted.
