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63: Daddy problems

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The day Adrian had three consecutive council meetings was the day Cassian was alone with both children for the first time, which in retrospect should have been better planned but had arrived with the inevitability of things that are insufficiently anticipated.

He had considered himself prepared. He had, after all, managed the logistics of military campaigns, diplomatic negotiations of considerable complexity, and the governance of an entire demon realm. Two small children were a bounded problem
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