Authors: Toni Aleo
Elli finally looked up and Fallon could see the worry in her eyes. “Oh Fallon, why? You’ve struggled to give that baby everything he wants, when Lucas could have been helping. Along with the fact that he deserves to know about his son.”
“It will be,” Fallon promised, even though she really couldn’t do that. She didn’t know how Lucas was gonna take finding out about his son, and she really didn’t need to worry about it as long as she stayed away from him and everyone kept their month’s shut.
Fallon rolled her eyes. “I know that Elli, I’m just scared that he will hurt Aiden the way he hurt me. Of course, he will love him — hello it’s his kid — but what happens when he gets married and has another. He’ll totally forget about Aiden and I’m not doing it.”
“Yes, you are, and you are going to regret your decision when Aiden gets older and really needs his dad. Right now he’s good but about when he needs daddy advice, or wants to play a real sport.”
“Because he doesn’t know any better, poor baby. More of a reason to give him a chance to know Lucas, he’ll probably want to play a real sport,” Elli said with a grin.
“That is not a good reason to introduce Aiden to Lucas,” Fallon insisted.
“I think it is, but mostly because they need each other. Lucas deserves to know his son and Aiden deserves to know his dad. If Lucas decides to be a douche and not be a good father — which I don’t think that well happen — then at least Aiden will know who his daddy is and that he is a douche. Let him make up his mind on Lucas. It isn’t fair that you get to make that decision for him.”
Fallon knew that Elli was right, but that didn’t mean she was gonna run out and introduced them. Fallon hadn’t heard from Lucas since she called him, yelling. So hopefully, she wouldn’t even have to deal with him anymore.
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Why did Fallon think she wasn’t gonna have to deal with Lucas Brooks anymore?
Fallon should have known something was up when she passed Rob and he wouldn’t look her in the eye. Fallon stood in the middle of her office and was taken back to the day her dorm room was filled with post-it notes. Every surface of her office was filled and this time all of the notes said the reason why she should take Lucas back. Fallon moved behind her desk, seeing that all the ones that covered her computer screen were in Lucas’ handwriting.
We have fun.
Great sex, remember?
You make me laugh.
I’m always smiling when I see or think of you.
I love your smile.
I miss your face in my hand.
I miss you, all of you. Everything.
Fallon pressed her hands to her stomach, feeling like there were a million butterflies swirling around in there. How in the world did he know what to say? Why couldn’t he just leave her alone? Was he trying to drive her crazy? Fallon looked up at the screen again, reading the post-it note that was in bold writing in the middle of her screen.
I’m willing to talk about the problems and fix the problems that ended our relationship. Are you?
“Oh come on! You never liked to talk about emotional stuff!” Fallon screamed at the screen. Her door opened and Rob walked in with a post-it note hanging from his finger.
“He said to give you this one when you stopped screaming. Are you done?”
“Give me the fucking note Rob, ah! I’m so mad at you!” Fallon stood up, snatching the note from Rob’s hands.
Stop yelling and meet me for dinner tonight. Just me and you. Let’s make this work. I miss you.
Underneath was the time and place for where he wanted to eat. Fallon hands shook as she filled with worry and anger at the fact that Lucas wasn’t gonna give up.
Just like she knew he wouldn’t.
She looked up at Rob with nothing but fire in her eyes. Rob took a step back as Fallon crumbled up the note and threw in the trash. “I should fire you.”
“You went against what I asked for money? And I thought you loved me,” Fallon said, shaking her head. She was mad, but didn’t blame Rob. Hell, she would have put the post-it notes up for $500. Rob moved towards Fallon’s desk, leaning against it as he talked to her.
“I do love you Fallon, I just don’t get it. That dude is hot, and I mean you haven’t had a boyfriend in what? Not while I've known you.” Rob picked up the picture of Aiden and Audrey, smiling as he looked down at the picture. “Aiden needs a male fig- holy fucking shit, Aiden looks just like that guy! Holy shit, is Lucas his dad?”
Fallon’s face dropped down into her hands. How was it that she didn’t want anyone knowing about Lucas and Aiden, and now in a matter of days, two people did? Did Aiden really look that much like Lucas?
“Please don’t say anything Rob,” Fallon groaned as she started tearing post-its off her screen and putting them in a pile in front of her. She couldn’t throw them away, they were in Lucas’ handwriting. She loved his hand writing.
Tears welled up in Fallon’s eyes. She knew Lucas wasn’t gonna stop and if she was honest, she would say that she kind of didn’t want him to. She did miss him; everything he had put on the post-it notes on why he missed her were reasons she missed him. Everything was so simple when it came to them, it was so easy between them but then she had gone seven years hating what he did to her. Being mad at what he ruined, and hating that he never came after her.
Did he really not ever love her?
But he had to have, because if he didn’t then why was he trying to get her back now? Why did he wait seven years? What the hell was really going on!
And why was she
again
asking the same fucking questions!
Fallon looked up again, shrugging her shoulders in defeat. “I just don’t fucking know.”
“By the way, love the cussing,” Rob said with a laugh. Fallon smiled weakly as he went on, “Okay, well are you going to dinner with him tonight?”
“Absolutely not,” Fallon said because even if she did miss him, or even wanted to find out the answers to all her questions, until she told him about Aiden, she just couldn’t risk it.
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“Please don’t tell me she fired you,” Lucas said when he answered the call from Rob. He told Rob not to call unless he was being fired or worse, like Fallon went ape shit on him. Lucas was a little worried too, because he hadn’t heard from Fallon and was worried that maybe Rob didn’t do his job. Maybe that’s why he was calling.
“No she didn’t, but I thought you should know that she isn’t going to dinner with you tonight,” Rob said quickly and quietly.
“You are kidding me, right?” Lucas said in disbelief. He was sure that the plan would work! Two pads of post-it notes full of reasons he missed her and still wanted to be with her didn’t work? What the hell?
“No, I just asked, and she said she ain’t going.”
“Son of a bitch, is she there?” Lucas asked, madder than hell. How dare she blow him off! He put his heart on the line letting her know how he felt and she couldn’t even call and tell him!
“Yeah, but I can’t transfer you,” Rob whispered. “She’ll kill me.”
What Rob didn’t know was that Lucas was driving down West End and Rocky Top Wines was located on 16th Avenue when he called. Lucas turned onto 16th, heading towards Fallon’s office.
“Fine don’t, I don’t care.” Lucas hung up and tried to control his breathing. He was done with their games, she was going to talk to him and she was going to do it now.
Lucas parked his truck along the side of the building and got out, pushing the lock button as he walked towards the front door. He rode the elevator to the third floor and when the doors opened Rob looked up from his desk. As Lucas stepped off the elevator and headed towards him, Rob stood up, sputtering something along the lines of Lucas wasn’t allowed in Fallon’s office.
But when did Lucas ever go by the rules?
Never, and he wasn’t going to start today.
Lucas threw Fallon’s office door open, slamming it behind him before Rob could come in. Fallon looked up from her computer with a pair of naughty little glasses sitting low on her nose. Her eyes went wide as she stood up quickly. His heart skipped a beat at the sight of her wearing an oversized dark green sweater that hung along her thighs. Her legs were covered by tight black stretchy pants and her hair was down along her shoulders. She looked beautiful, even in everyday clothes. That was one thing about her that he just couldn’t stop loving, he loved that she could be dressed to the nines and then dressed in sweats and still be the most beautiful girl in the world.
“I don’t care, isn’t it common courtesy that when a guy does something nice for you, you should do something nice for them? Isn’t that the way you country folk do things down here?!”
Yeah, this Fallon wasn’t the girl he cheated on back then. The girl he knew wouldn’t have been in a screaming match with him; she would have just ignored him and waited for him to leave.
“I see you can still be a little dramatic,” Lucas said nonchalantly, even though everything she said hurt a little. He knew he had hurt her, but broke her? Damn.
“You said you loved me! You’re a liar because you never, ever, ever did! If you did you wouldn’t have fucked my best friend!”
Lucas couldn’t help but laugh. “Are we really quoting Bruno Mars right now? Do you want me to carry on the next part, and then we can join in together at the chorus?”
Her eyes got dark with something, maybe lust…or hatred, either way he smiled. When he saw her mouth twitch at the side, fighting the smile that was threatening to show, he couldn’t help but say, “What did you do, sit up all night listening to that song, figuring out ways to use it when you yelled at me?”
“Fuck you, Lucas!”
“Anytime baby girl,” Lucas said with a grin. God, she was fun to mess with. The way her face flushed and her eyes narrowed turned him on to the point of no return.
Damn, she was hot.
A heated moment passed through them as their gazes locked and their breathing quickened. She could cause him to be hard for weeks with nothing but one look. When she puckered her little lips the way she was doing as she looked at him, he swore he could go right there. He loved her mouth and he loved when she did naughty things with it.
He loved her.
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Fallon looked away, she had to. Lucas was giving her that, ‘I’m about to throw you up against a wall and screw your brains out’ look and she couldn’t handle it. Just being in the room with him was making her hot from head to toe. She moved past him, wanting to get to the door so she could kick him out. When she reached it and turned, Lucas took a step towards her, making her take a step back, trapping her between him and the door.
Fallon took a deep breath, trying her damndest not to be affected by his sexy grin or smoking gray eyes as she looked up at him. “I’ve told you many times, I’ve not your baby girl, and I ain’t fighting anything.”
Lucas just laughed as he moved in closer, his body only inches from hers. When she felt the heat of him, she wanted to melt into a puddle of goo. He was the best person to sleep with when it was cold, he gave off so much heat that Fallon didn’t even need a blanket when she slept with him.
Aiden was the same way.
Before she could say anything, Lucas came in close, his lips so close that if she only moved a little she would be kissing him — something she had thought about a lot since the first night she saw him again. It was something about his lips; the way they were so thin, and with the way he was always biting them, it just made her hot. Period. They were just so damn sexy!