The morning went on and Fallon still hadn’t pushed send. She was in the middle of filling out ‘Thank you’ cards when a knock came at the door and Audrey came in. Fallon smiled as she laid down her pen. “Hey you!”

“Hey,” Audrey said with a grin. As she walked towards the chairs in front of Fallon’s desk, Fallon couldn’t help but notice that Audrey looked amazing. She had on a pair of gray skinny jeans with a white, flowing ruffle shirt. Over the shirt was a grey blazer and around her neck was a turquoise colored scarf, but that wasn’t the best part of her outfit. It was the shoes. Lord, they were amazing turquoise-colored peep toe heels, and around the heels there was a grey ribbon that tied into a bow at the back. She looked too hot to trot and Fallon was beyond jealous. She should have picked that outfit out for herself!

“So, how’s work?” Audrey asked, crossing her legs and smiling up at Fallon.

Fallon giggled as she nodded. “Fine, sending out thank you notes, when I really should be hitting send on this e-mail.”

Audrey cocked an eyebrow at her. “Huh?”

“Dad gave me the go on the cellar project,” Fallon announced. It felt amazing to say it out loud and when Audrey’s face lit up, Fallon had to stop herself from letting out a girly scream.

“That’s awesome!’

“Right!? Eek!” Fallon screamed. She couldn’t help herself and Audrey joined in, bouncing in her seat. “But, I can’t seem to send it to Elli. What if she rejects the idea?”

“She won’t!” Audrey gushed. She got up and came around the desk. Fallon thought she was coming to hug her or give her a pep talk, but she leaned across Fallon and hit send. Fallon gasped before looking up at Audrey in disbelief. “You’ll thank me later.”

“Audrey Jane! How dare you!”

Audrey giggled. “Again, you’ll thank me later when we are standing in the middle of Parker’s Wine Cellar.”

Fallon rolled her eyes. “You know it would be Rocky Top Wines.”

“Eww, no make it Parker’s, or Fallon’s. You’re putting the capital down, so shouldn’t it be yours?”

Fallon shrugged her shoulders just as her phone beeped. “A very sexy Lucas Brooks is on line one,” Rob gushed.

Fallon’s face lit up as she reached for the phone. She picked it up and just as she was about to push line one, Audrey stood up. “I’m gonna go, I’ll talk to you later.”

Fallon smiled, laying the phone down and standing up. She went around the desk and hugged Audrey tightly. “I love you AA, thanks babe.”

Audrey laid her head on Fallon’s shoulder, and held her tight. When they parted Audrey looked at her with a sad look on her face. She leaned up and kissed Fallon’s cheek before leaving the room without even saying bye. Fallon shrugged her shoulders and decided she would question Audrey later. She missed Lucas, and he was waiting for her. Fallon ran back to her desk and picked up the phone, hitting line one.

“Fallon Parker,” she said with a grin on her face.

“Mmm, I do love the sound of your name.”

Fallon giggled. “Hey you.”

“Hey baby girl, how you doing?”

“Good, you ready to play tonight?” she asked.

She picked up her pen, and started doodling little hearts around the date on her calendar as he said, “Yup, ready to kick some ass. Are you going to watch?”

“I am. Aiden wore his jersey to school today. I think he is excited. He said that when you bring the Cup home, y’all are gonna drink chocolate milk out of it.”

Lucas laughed. “That’s my boy.”

Fallon nodded as she reached for the post it note of information she had written down for Lucas. “So I called the Realtor. The condo will be available at the end of the August. The price is $198,100 and everything is basically new inside. She said to let her know if Tate wants to look at it. I told her I’d give you her number.”

“Cool, I’ll pass on the information. The kid’s doing better. I was actually able to understand what he was saying this morning.”

Fallon giggled. “That’s always a good thing.”

“Yeah, so what are you doing? Working?”

“Yeah, filling out thank you notes, Audrey just left.”

Lucas paused and then said, “What did she have to say?”

“Nothing, we talked about the cellar stuff and then she left.”

“Oh, okay.”

“Yeah,” she said as she started to click her pen against the desk.

“Okay, well I gotta go. I’ll call you later, hopefully before the game.”

“Oh,” she said with sadness in her voice. She thought they would talk for a little bit, or at least talk about something worth a damn! “Okay.”

“Sorry babe, I gotta go warm up and stuff, but I miss you.”

Fallon smiled. “I miss you more.”

“Okay, bye.”

“Bye,” she said before hanging up. She took in a deep breath as she stared down at the phone. She missed him so much and it had only been a day. It was pathetic and she needed to get it together. It was just the start of the playoffs, and Fallon felt that the next two months were going to be the slowest of her life.

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Lucas looked towards the goal and watched as one of the Wild’s shot the puck hard at Odder. He swatted it away like it was a fly and Lucas smiled. The kid was a beast. Lucas squirted some water into his mouth and slowly spit it out of his mouth. When his line was called, he jumped over the board and skated towards his net.