New Digs & A Disgusting Request

A short chapter but longer ones coming,..HELLO! Is ANYBODY reading this?

"Uncle Frank gave daddy a hard time today. So feel free to give him a big stinky diaper when we're gone," Ryan said to a smiling Bella.

The couple were going out for a few hours to celebrate Emily's parents' anniversary. Frank offered to watch Bella. Emily hit Ryan on the arm.

"Will you behave! God, you men are worse than children!"

"Oh fine. You can show him your new talent, too," Ryan continued to his daughter.

Though shaky, Bella had taken her first steps two days ago. She was all of nine months old.

Frank enjoyed spending time with Bella, always had, As per her dad's request, or just by coincidence, Frank had to deal with a very dirty diaper. When her parents returned, it was Emily who started to tease Frank.

She noticed his keychain had a picture of Sophie, his kitten, in it. She picked it up.

"Frank? You don't take this with you when you try to pick up women, do you?"

"Why?"

She showed him the keychain.

"See, us women, ones who do have cats, like to talk 'bout them amongst each other. When we see a guy with a picture of a kitten on his keychain, his or not, our first thought is how unmanly it is."

The Wolfes had got lucky. Barely two months after putting their condo on the market, they had a buyer. Which was good because they had found a four bedroom, two and a half bath house in a Miami suburb. They could buy it mortgage-free with the profit they made on the condo. They would be moving in three weeks. Their child's nursery being "portable" proved to be a very convenient, it was going to be in use for another while.

Ryan couldn't believe what he heard. There wasn't words to describe it. It was way beyond shocked and disgust.

Erica Sykes had come to see him at work. Apparently she had decided to become a mother, via a gestational surrogate because she "didn't want to destroy her body with pregnancy."

Ryan scoffed as he listened, not surprised at all when she then added the live-in nanny had already been screened.

"Naturally," Ryan said sarcastically. "What the hell does this have to do with me?"

Then the words came.

He wouldn't have any financial or other responsibility but she wanted him to be the sperm donor.

"Relax," she said when the look came across his face. "Conception will done through IVF, not the old-fashioned way."

"Are you kidding me? You're fuckin' certifiable if you think I'd do that! I can't believe you're even asking me! What part of 'I can't stand you and I never want to see again' didn't you get. years ago?"

"So you wouldn't do it? Won't you just think about it?"

"Fuck no! Get out of my face, Erica."

Horatio had heard the whole conversation and even he couldn't hide his shock. The woman had some nerve.

"Don't torture yourself, Mister Wolfe," Horatio said to Ryan, sensing the first thought the young CSI as the woman left was how he ever dated her. "Your past is just that. You have now and the future."

Emily didn't understand why Ryan thought she would be angry with him for what Erica asked.

"Why in the world would I be mad with you?" she said, wrapping her arms around his waist. "She's the one I'd want to punch. I'd only be mad if you even agreed to think about it."