Fallon nodded. “I do trust him, I do,” she said reassuring herself, “but I’ve f**ked up so much. Why would he want to be with me when I constantly hurt him?”

“Because he loves you and when you love someone it doesn’t matter what they do, you still love them.”

Fallon shook her head. It couldn’t be that easy, she had put Lucas through seven years of hell before she forgave him. She didn’t believe him when he needed her to, how could he forgive that?

“I don’t even know what I’d say to him, Audrey,”

Audrey moved her hand up to Fallon’s face, looking deeply into her eyes before she smiled and said, “Tell him you love him. The rest will fall into place.”

Lucas sat on his couch, a glass of water in his hand and mindless TV on as he tried to not miss Fallon. He told himself that they were done and he needed to accept it, but his heart and body weren’t listening. They wanted her back and probably always would. He would probably always roam the earth, wishing she was by his side. It was how he was made.

He was made to love only her.

Lucas shook his head just as his phone went off from an incoming text message. He took his phone out of his pocket and opened the text message. He pushed the right button so that it would be read for him, but the voice talk didn’t make any sense. He looked down at the text message and tried to focus, but he didn’t have too.

.edistuo emoC

Come outside.

No one had ever written to him like that except for Fallon.

Lucas got up quickly, placing his glass of water on the end table as he made his way to the door. When he threw it open, Fallow stood on the sidewalk, drenched to the bone. She wore his old AHL tee and a pair of jean shorts. It was raining so hard that he could hardly see her.

“What the hell Fallon? Come inside!” he yelled. The rain was loud, slamming against the roof of the house and the windows. He didn’t even know if she heard him until she shook her head.

“No,” she said simply, moving her hair out of her face.

“Why? What are you doing here? It’s cold, come inside.”

“Come in the rain with me,” she said.

“No way. I came out in the rain with you earlier and that didn’t work out for us,” he said, crossing his arms over his shoulders.

“I know but I need to tell you something.”

“What Fallon? Come inside!”

But she shook her head, her eyes pleading with his.

“Don’t you remember that time Luc?” she yelled.

“What time? What are you talking about?” he exclaimed. He didn’t know what she was doing but she was pissing him off even more. He hated that he thought she was gorgeous even when he was furious with her. Couldn’t he get a break when it came to her? Could he not be affected by her beauty, her sexiness, for once?

Fallon moved her hand over her face, clearing some of the rain off it as she said, “Out at the beach, outside your house in California? It rained for five days straight and finally there was a break so we ran out and enjoyed the sun for all of five minutes before it started pouring again.”

Lucas nodded. He remembered that day like it was yesterday but he didn’t understand what it had to do with Fallon standing out in the rain. “Come in Fallon, you’re drenched. We can talk about this inside.”

“No, wait, listen to me,” she yelled throwing her arms in the air. “You lost the keys!”

Lucas rolled his eyes as he shook his head. Even though he wasn’t in the mood to laugh, he did. That day had been insane and perfect all in one. He looked up at her and nodded, “We were locked out the house, and the car was locked.”

She did a little skip as she smiled widely at him, “Yes! So we laid on the beach as it rained, and we made loved as the rain pounded against us.”

Lucas looked down at the ground, nodding his head. “It was the day I told you I loved you.”

When he looked up, Fallon was nodding her head, wiping the rain from her face, or maybe it was her tears. He looked down at the ground, kicking the floor and mentally kicking himself. They were so happy, so in love back then, and he threw it all away. Then he got another chance and instead of doing what was right by her, he did what he thought was right for Audrey. He knew how Fallon was. He knew she could be difficult and she hated secrets but still, didn’t she trust him enough to know that he would never intentionally hurt her? He loved her, he loved Aiden, and he wanted them together as a family. What else did he have to do to prove that he wasn’t going to hurt her?!

“And I told you I love you.”

Lucas looked up and Fallon stood at the bottom step, still in the rain as she looked up at him. Even with her black makeup running down her cheeks, her hair stuck to her face and her clothes so wet they stretched from her body, he couldn’t help but think she was the most beautiful woman in the world. To this day he was still stunned by her beauty and couldn’t help but love her with everything inside him, even when she drove him insane.

“You did.”

Lucas knew he should have said something else, but he couldn’t. He just stood there staring at her as she stared up at him. She took a deep breath, moving her hair from her eyes as the rain just poured on her.

“I want to tell you I love you in the rain again, Lucas Brooks.”

It was like she had just hit him square in the chest with a puck. His mouth fell open while his eyes bulged out of his head. Did he really hear her right? He struggled to speak as he went out into the rain, stopping in front of her. It was cold, but he didn’t care. He had one thing on his mind and that was wrapping Fallon up in his arms.