Chapter Twenty-Four
Almost twenty-two weeks pregnant with two Delko boys Calleigh wondered how Aimee Caine did this three times with just one baby each. She didn't find her boyfriend as annoying now probably because she got tired more easily and it felt nice to be tended on. Horatio had talked to her about taking leave, not right now but earlier than usual. Growing two human lives was more taxing on her body even if she wasn't having complications. Her doctor might give her medical leave, leaving her with twelve months of maternity leave. He was doing this both as a boss and friend.
And godfather.
Horatio and Aimee had accepted being godparents to the unborn twins understanding the fact that if something happened to Eric and Calleigh they would be raising two more children. Eric's family wasn't happy with the hypothetical arrangement even though they would still be in the boys' lives, but were bound by the legal documents, stating the Caines would legally adopt the twins. The arrangement choice had it's reasons besides the expectant couple's close relationship with Horatio and Aimee and Calleigh having parents who were alcoholics. Eric's parents' ages were against them. His sisters? One was honest and said she didn't want to raise the children. The other two? Both their standards for children were just too high. They expected perfection in everything from behavior to sports to grades. Tiger parenting or something like that. Uncle Eric felt bad for his nieces. They didn't get a chance to be kids unless they were spending time with him and Calleigh.
Eric and Calleigh planned to parent very differently. That was why his boys would never live with his sisters.
Kyle thought what his parents were doing was perfectly normal—even if Eric's family, minus Eric, told he should have "moved out of daddy's house by now," didn't. He considered Eric and Calleigh family.
It took everything Aimee had not to laugh.
Her husband's vasectomy had been botched. Him and several others during the time apparently. When the hospital notified him of this, Horatio had went in for a test to found out. Aimee was still on birth control to regulate her menstrual cycle. She had been since was just twelve years old. Not that they planned to but if that she forget a pill like she had when Rachel was conceived (both Cheyenna and Hunter were planned) both she and Horatio agreed that it was a sign they were meant to have another child. She wasn't about to ask her husband to undergo the procedure again.
Kyle couldn't hold back a laugh at the news, it was a botched procedure but it wasn't as if his father was ill or anything. Unlike his mother, he did ask if his dad was going to get the procedure done again by another physician.
They all can't be incompetent, he said. And really, dad, having been there to see it, that can't be anything compared to mom went through, three times at that.
You're so my favorite child, Aimee told Kyle.
"I suppose it would be too much to ask you two to stop having sex?" Kyle teased both.
That made all of them laugh.
With Horatio's vasectomy having been ineffective, it was very surprising that Aimee wasn't pregnant again. They hadn't used condoms after that. Aimee only took the pill three weeks out of the month. She could have easily become pregnant again soon after Hunter's birth. She wasn't pregnant now either and didn't need a test to prove it.
"I can't believe some of these men are suing the doctor for 'compensation' for this, because they knocked someone up. Most of them."
In addition to getting the news of the botched procedure Horatio had also been asked that day if he wanted to be a party to a lawsuit being bought against the physician. Insurance was refunding cost but that was irrelevent. He said no. Most of the suit was insane.
Plus, he hadn't and Aimee conceived any children and the lawsuit was reportedly for "financial compensation" to support these children and "emotional distress" for the men who became fathers, not intending to. Three of the parties involved were suing because they had passed on genetic and terminal diseases on to their children. The reason for the procedure in the first place. Horatio understood that. Medical care of those children had to be expensive, watching a disease slowly kill their children had to be unimaginable . Those three men were trying to prevent the suffering their children were now going through. Horatio left out telling the paralegal he thought the rest of the "so-called men" were poor excuses for one.