"Is it true?", he asked his wife who was laying on the bed tiredly, "that you can't have anymore children?". His wife looked up at him still trained from the birth of her stillborn son. She had had two sons with her ex husband no problem and now she was older years of trying and still no son.gaius needed an heir especially now that he wanted to convince the senat he'd rule longer. They'd call him a dictator and having no heirs would just add to his problems.