Fallon stopped turning to him. “Aren’t y’all leaving?”

“Yeah, but I needed to say something to you. Audrey is gonna put Aiden in the car.”

“What?” Fallon asked.

“Pull Aiden from his shit-ass sport. He doesn’t like it.”

Fallon rolled her eyes. “He likes it. He’s been playing since he was four.”

“And I bet he’s sucked. He doesn’t want to play.”

“I don’t care, Parkers don’t quit,” Fallon said before turning back around and walking towards her car. As far as she was concerned this conversation was over, but Lucas didn’t seem to think so.

“Well he is a Brooks, and we don’t suck at things. Pull him.”

“No,” she said, throwing her things in the back on her car.

“Fallon, I’ll find another sport for him,” he pleaded.

“Like what? Hockey?”

“Yes!” he yelled as his arms went up in the air. “I’m glad you’re finally seeing the light here.”

“I’m not and I’ll be damned if my child is gonna skate around on the ice running into people and slapping a rubber disk with a stick.”

“For your information, hockey is the greatest sport ever, and my boy will play.”

“Listen here Lucas Brooks,” she said getting right into his face. She could feel his breath on her lips, and she begged her body not to react, but when did it ever listen to her when it came to Lucas? She pushed past her lust for him and poked him square in the chest. “Just cause you are playing daddy right now doesn’t mean you get to start making decisions. I’m not pulling him. He started this damn sport, he’ll finish it.”

A slow sly smirk formed on Lucas’ lips and Fallon took in a sharp breath. “I’m not playing daddy. I am Daddy and you are Mommy. Shouldn’t we be making out instead of fighting?”

Fallon rolled her eyes, poking him harder in the chest. “Get your mind out of the gutter Lucas!”

She poked him again, and he took her finger in his hand as he grinned down at her. “Poke me one more time Fallon Parker, and I’ll poke you back, and not with my finger.”

Fallon’s mouth dropped in complete shock at his blunt statement; she didn’t even realize he was coming in for a kiss until his lips were on hers, moving ever so lightly. She froze under the heat of his lips. She didn’t even have time to push him away or smack him before he was walking away, his laughter the only sound as she leaned against the car trying to catch her breath.

Damn it!

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Lucas’ mouth tingled from his kiss with Fallon the whole time he sat with her family and Aiden at Ben and Jerry’s. He didn’t plan the kiss. He honestly wanted to talk to her about the baseball thing. But this whole argumentative Fallon thing drove him insane and he couldn’t help himself, he had to have her. There was something about her pretty little mouth saying such mean things to him that had him almost on his knees begging for her. Lucas licked his lip as he thought of that sweet mouth on his. He wasn’t sure how much longer he could take of them arguing and not getting naked.

He needed her.

Bad.

“I wish Mommy would have come,” Aiden said as he ate around at his strawberry shortcake. Lucas heart stopped at the sound of Aiden’s sadness. He hadn’t seen Aiden sad yet. He had always been happy. Why couldn’t Fallon put aside her issues with him and her father to come? Nora put her hand on his back as Audrey leaned over whispering something in his ear. A warm smile came across his beautiful face and they jumped up, going to the cashier.

“They are gonna get something for Fallon,” Nora said as Lucas watched them to see what they were doing.

“Oh, okay,” Lucas said with a grin before going back to his ice cream.

“You know it’s hard not to like you Lucas,” Nora said. Lucas chuckled.

“So I’ve been told. My mom says I could charm my way out of anything,” Lucas laughed, causing Nora to smile and William to chuckle. Lucas didn’t know what Fallon’s issues were with her dad, but Lucas thought he was a good guy. He was scary as hell, but still a nice guy.

Lucas looked over to check on Aiden and saw that Audrey was taking him to the bathroom. It surprised Lucas how protective he was over Aiden already. He always had an eye on him, making sure the kid was okay.

“Did you know Fallon long, before…you know?” Nora asked bring Lucas’ attention back to them.

“Yeah, we dated for two years.”

“Two years?” Nora asked as her mouth fell open.

“Yeah.”

“Two years, and we never knew,” William said with a shake of his head.

“Did you guys break up?” Nora asked. “Or did she just run? Do you know why she ran? It was all just so crazy. Fallon was such a good girl and next thing we know she was pregnant and wouldn’t tell us anything about the father.”

Lucas nodded and took a moment before answering. “I messed up and she broke up with me. I never saw her again.”

“You messed up?” Nora asked.

“I cheated,” Lucas said not looking the two in the eyes. “It was the biggest mistake of my life.”

Nothing was said for a moment as the three sat collecting their thoughts. Lucas felt their eyes on him, but he refused to look up to see the judgment or hate in their eyes. When he finally did look up, they weren’t judging him, they looked sad.