Chapter Thirty-Four
Eric was complaining about how much "stuff" babies needed. In his case times two.
Horatio laughed, shaking his head. "Oh Eric. You have no idea what's coming, do you?"
Life with twins wasn't something the other man knew about. He was sure Calleigh and Eric would figure it out. They were getting practice on the no-sleep front with two of Eric's nieces who was barely a year apart. The two cousins who were almost three-years-old spent the weekend with the couple and in their bed. Fast-forwarding to when his sons would be that age, he asked Horatio when the kids stopped wanting to sleep with their parents.
"I'll let you know when that happens," Horatio smiled.
Usually both the girls didn't get into their bed, they seemed to take turns. But they could also go weeks sleeping in their own beds. As often Hunter woke up people's advice went in one ear and out the other. Horatio and Aimee refused to let an infant "cry it out." Safe to say sleep was rare in the Caine home since Rachel was born.
Eric and Calleigh also had a maternity photo shoot done earlier this week. Both really enjoyed it. His parents thought the intimate photos weren't "tasteful." Horatio told his friend to ignore them. There was a big difference between intimate and sexual. He and Aimee had similar intimate photos taken with each of their pregnancies. They had family sessions too. Aimee's parents, particularly her mom had the same opinion as Eric's mother. It must have been a generational view because Kyle too enjoyed the sessions and thought Aimee was beautiful and there was no reason to "hide" her "condition," even as a seventeen-year-old boy.
It had been a week since Julia was arrested. She was now being held in prison having been evicted from her swanky apartment, leaving her with no residence. Aimee and Horatio wanted to let Kyle to process it. Truth was the only thing Kyle felt was Julia was where she should be. He wasn't embarrassed; not many in Miami knew who his biological mother was. Most who did, knew how he felt about her. In the paragraph about her arrest on page 12, there no mention her ever having-and abandoning a son. Kyle wanted it to stay that way.
There was much worst crimes to cover in Miami than white collar crime.
"Really, dad and mom, I'm fine. Glad actually. I mean, she kept us apart on purpose. If I hadn't got arrested…I never would found you. Technically she is not being punished for that but it's what she deserves." Kyle had forgiven his father for the past. He was just as much a victim as himself. But he would never ever forgive Julia. She had sucked enough happiness out of his life. He refused to let her take any more.
Horatio couldn't say his son was wrong but holding on to anger just wore a person down. He knew this more than anybody. He hadn't forgiven Julia either. But he had let go of the anger. However Kyle had to do the same in his own time. He hadn't seen his therapist in a while maybe he would call for an appointment.
How Horatio managed to meet and marry a woman 14 years his junior, without a dating app or professional matchmaker was his little secret. No embarrassment here. But it wasn't apply to her being in the "yummy mummies" club with Kyle's friends. That was gross to Kyle. Not that Aimee wasn't beautiful, she were indeed. But she was intimate with his father. That eliminated any shred of a chance of him being attracted to her. Never mind he saw her as his mother too. The few strictly-friends that Kyle had who were female only wanted to know how Aimee gave birth three times in five years and looked the way she did, just seven months after the last one.
"That I can't tell you," Kyle laughed. But he knew her "post baby bod" as the media called it, wasn't his mother's priority in the weeks after giving birth. "You would have to ask her that."
Hunter was on the move now somehow mastering crawling almost overnight. He liked his play area which he was seldom alone in, with two big sisters. Yet he absolutely preferred to cruise around the house, his room was more fun now too. All of the big soft toys were fun to climb on with daddy's help at the moment. Time in here playing with his baby boy, joined the girls if they didn't want some "no boy" time was therapeutic from all the horrors he saw.
