“Oh my God,” Molly gasped as Lucas stood up and started pacing his bedroom. “I’ll be on a plane tomorrow.”

Lucas smiled. “No Mom, not yet. Let me get to know him before you come.”

She was quiet for a moment before saying, “How old is he?”

“Six.”

“Six! Oh my god. I’m coming down there.”

“Mom, no. Give me some time with him.”

“Oh, I’m not coming for you or to meet the boy, I’m coming to beat the living crap out of the woman that had him and didn’t think to tell anyone! Who is it?”

Lucas was actually scared to tell her. She was going to be furious when he said Fallon’s name but he had no choice. He couldn’t lie to her. Lucas let out the breath he was holding and said, “Fallon.”

It was as if Molly took in the breath he let out, before saying, “No, I don’t believe it. Fallon would never keep a child from someone.”

“I wouldn’t think so either, but I saw him. He’s mine.”

“Oh, my goodness, what did you do to that poor girl?”

Fucked her up good, Lucas thought as buried his face in his large hand. “Messed her up to the point of keeping my child from me.”

“My God, this is nuts!”

“No kidding,” Lucas scoffed as he started to rub his eyes with his fingers.

“What did she name him?” Molly asked after a moment of Lucas listening to her heavy breathing.

“Aiden James Brooks,” Lucas said proudly. “He said it just like that to me.” Lucas started to grin, ignoring the cry that came through the phone when he said James. He knew that would make Molly cry, more than just knowing about Aiden.

“Even with wanting to slap the girl silly, I still could kiss her. She has a good heart, she just didn’t know what to do, I guess.”

“I guess,” Lucas agreed as he waited for Molly to go on.

“So what are you going to do?”

“We have paperwork in motion. I got to get that from Fallon tomorrow, but meanwhile, I will be getting to know my little guy.”

“When can I come see him?”

“His birthday is in two weeks, I’ll fly you out for that. I’ll have Levi send you pictures tomorrow.”

“Good, okay. Goodness, this is so much at once,” Molly said with a huff.

Lucas smiled. “I know. I still don’t believe it myself.”

“How’s Fallon?”

Figures she would care about Fallon. Molly loved Fallon like the daughter she never had. That was one of the main reason he loved Fallon so much. His mother did.

“She’s being her regular bitchy self. It’s all just a defense mechanism though, she’ll be okay. She knows I won’t do anything to hurt Aiden.”

Lucas looked up at where a picture of him and his dad hung. As his mother went on about how it must be hard on Fallon, all he could do was wonder if his dad was disappointed in him, because Lucas suddenly felt like he had failed at everything in his life.

Not keeping his father alive, his addictions, not being able to read, and then losing Fallon. The only thing he was actually good at was hockey.

Lucas then decided that there was no way in hell he was going to fail at being a father. Just thinking of Aiden made Lucas smile and he knew in his heart that he was going to be the best damn dad in the world.

No matter what Fallon wanted.

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Fallon still wasn’t breathing right as she climbed the steps to the upstairs. With the way she was acting, the feathery light touch of Lucas’ lips on her nose might as well been a full on mouth kiss, with tongue. Her heart still hammered against her chest, sweat dripped down her back, and Fallon swore she was dizzy.

The man straight blew her mind.

Which was bad, very bad.

Fallon shook her head as she walked down the hall to the bathroom, but before she could reach it she heard Aiden say, “Lucas is cool.”

Audrey laughed as Fallon leaned against the wall, waiting for the conversation to go on. “He is nice.”

“I think he is awesome. He has the same name as me! That’s cool, ‘cause I’m cool.”

Fallon smiled as Audrey giggled. “I know that’s right.”

Fallon heard the splash of water before Aiden said, “Do you think him and Momma will get married?”

Audrey cleared her throat and Fallon heard the shower start. “Aiden, they aren’t dating honey. He’s just a friend.”

“Maybe they could get married. Will you ask Momma to? Lucas is so cool.”

“Aiden James, you don’t even know him! He could be a hippogriff!”

That made Aiden giggle and Fallon tried to smile past the tears, but she didn’t succeed. Aiden wanted a father so bad, and it killed Fallon that she had done this to both of them. She was basically the worst person imaginable.

“No, he’s too cool for that. I feel good around him. Like some people, I feel weird around, like the janitor at school! He’s creepy!” Aiden gushed as Fallon wiped away her tears before smiling. She needed to look into this creepy janitor. Something wasn’t right if her little boy didn’t feel right around him. “But Lucas, I think he’s good. He’s big too! I bet you he could kill a billion hippogriffs!”

“I don’t know bud. I think they are just friends,” Audrey insisted.

“Can you ask please? Momma listens to you.”