A Different Road

What if Aimee Michaels and Horatio Caine met the same way but the ordeals with Rick Stetler and Mason Shaw didn't happen? What if instead of a lone bachelor, Horatio was a single dad raising a five-year-old named Kyle? This is their story...

Prologue

His relationship with Julia Albery had been brief. When she got pregnant, she made it clear on no uncertain terms, she wanted nothing more to do with him and she did not want the baby. Too many people knew she was pregnant so she couldn't terminate the pregnancy and save face.

She would have the baby then leave the state.

He could pick "it" up at the hospital.

Horatio fell like a ton of bricks for the baby boy he lovingly named Kyle James Caine. For the past month he had been preparing a nursery for the baby boy. Julia's attorney had informed him that the unborn child was a boy. Furthermore, Julia intended to terminate her parental rights to the baby.

Horatio didn't have any problem with this. The baby didn't deserve to have someone in his life who didn't love or even want him to be born in the first place. Although he would love the baby enough for a million people, Horatio hoped someday he would find a woman who loved Kyle as much as he did.