Juust to indicate that there is a solution to the problem: the trivial solution for the smallest graph with $k$ edge-disjoint Hamilton paths between a given pair of vertices is to take a graph $G'$ with $k$ edge-disjoint Hamilton cycles and split one of its vertices. The smallest graph with two edge-disjoint Hamilton cycles is $K_5$ and so the smallest graph that solves the original problem is a vertex-split $K_5$ depicted below: [![enter image description here][1]][1] [1]: https://i.sstatic.net/uJmnE.png