A Brief Interlude
Before Part II of Happy Anniversary goes ahead....
After giving birth to three children in four years Aimee had managed to regain her figure. However this time she had developed stretch marks and to her dismay, it didn't appear they showed any signs of fading. She tried to tell herself that it had been just eight weeks since she had last given birth, to give it time. Despite knowing her husband had seen her at her worst, Christ, the man had seen her give birth three times and even delivered their daughters. The joy of the arrival of a child aside, one had to be honest, the process of childbirth itself was truly disgusting. Still for a brief, and very brief time, she felt uncomfortable being naked in front of her husband. She thought she looked "gross."
Horatio could sense her thoughts and the first time they made love after their son's birth told her, the last thing her body was to him was "gross." To him, she were the sexiest woman in the world. When his eyes did her stretch marks, he thought of the three beautiful children they had made together. He refused to turn the lights out, he wanted to see her body as they made love.
After that night any self-consciousness had about being naked in the presence of Horatio disappeared.