“You would tell me?” Fallon asked.

“Yeah,” Audrey said looking back down towards the stairs. “I gotta go.”

“Okay? Where?”

Audrey kicked the front of her boot into the floor. “Out. I’m meeting someone.”

Fallon took in a frustrated breath. Why was she being so difficult? What was she hiding? “Okay,” she finally said, moving out of the way so that Audrey could go down the stairs. “Be careful.”

Audrey went down the stairs with nothing more than a wave for Fallon. Audrey was hiding something and Fallon wanted to know what it was.

Pronto.

Shrugging her shoulders, Fallon went towards Aiden’s door. When she reached it, she heard Aiden yawn. She slowly opened the door to see him lying on his side, with his back to the door, and the iPad sitting up so he could see Lucas. Lucas was also laying in a bed with a grin on his face as he talked to Aiden. Fallon’s heart lurched at the sight of Lucas. He looked so inviting, laying with his head on the pillow and his eyes half lidded. It was obvious that he was tired. Lucas had been playing some amazing hockey the past couple games. Fallon had no doubt that he would be tired, but why did he have to look so sexy while doing it?

Aiden took in a deep breath and Lucas smiled. “Buddy, you are tired. Go to sleep.”

Aiden shook his head. “I miss you.”

Fallon’s heart broke as she leaned against the doorway. Aiden had asked for Lucas every morning before school and then after. It broke Fallon in pieces when he would look up at her with those big gray eyes and his lip wobbling because he missed his daddy. She wished that she could take Aiden to Lucas, or bring Lucas home, anything just to make her baby happy.

“I miss you too, bud. I’ll be home in two days, and then you’ll meet your grandma. So go to sleep okay? I’ll call tomorrow.”

Fallon’s hands clasped together tightly at the thought of Molly coming to Aiden’s birthday party that weekend. Fallon had been a nervous wreck about seeing the woman that she had thought of as a second mother so long ago. All her fears before Lucas and Aiden knew of each other came back in full force. She was so scared of what Molly would say to her that Fallon was convinced she would be on pins and needles the rest of the week.

“I’m fi..,” Aiden tried to say, but the last word didn’t fully come out. Fallon slowly walked towards the bed, peeking over to see that Aiden had fallen asleep. When she heard Lucas chuckling, she picked the iPad up to see his beautiful sleepy face.

“Hey there, beautiful.”

Fallon smiled. “Hey. He knocked out on ya, huh?”

“Sure did. He’s been talking a million words a minute; I didn’t think he would last that long tonight.”

“Yeah, he’s had a long day at school since I let him stay up last night.”

Lucas nodded. “Thanks for that. He seemed pretty excited.”

Fallon shrugged her shoulders. “It was a good game.”

Lucas smiled before running his hands through his hair and sitting up. “So you watched it?”

Fallon’s cheeks warmed a little before she nodded. “I did.”

Nothing was said as the two stared into each other’s eyes. Fallon wanted nothing more than to climb into the iPad and magically appear on the other side in Vancouver, where she would promptly screw Lucas Brooks’ brains out. It was something about his eyes and mouth that had Fallon on edge, or maybe it was his whole body. Who the hell knew, all she did know was that she wanted him, even if it was against her best judgment.

“I miss you, Fal.”

Fallon took in a sharp breath before biting her lip. Why did he have to say that? Why couldn’t he just let her be? It was hard enough trying to resist his sexy ass but then he would say sweet things like that and Fallon really did want to figure out a way to climb through the damn iPad.

“You do?” she asked because she didn’t know what else to say.

Lucas nodded. “A lot.”

“Well stop,” she said, when really she wanted to tell him she missed him too.

“No.”

“Nothing is ever gonna happen between us,” she said, trying to convince him.

And herself.

“So you say,” Lucas said with a grin.

“I do say, and I’ll stand beside it,” Fallon said, her temper flaring.

“I don’t believe you. Something is going to happen. The location and time is still unknown.”

“Ah! You’re madding!”

Fallon hit the disconnect button and crumbled into the chair beside Aiden’s bed. She turned off the iPad before letting her face fall into her hands. As she shook her head from side to side, all she could do was think why did he still miss her? Why did he still want her? She was a complete bitch to him, had kept his child from him. It made no damn sense. There was no way he still loved her because he had cheated on her, he had ruined them.

It had to be convenience. He wanted to be around Aiden all the time, and of course, there was still sexual attraction between them so why not try to get Fallon on board. Then he could have Aiden all the time AND get laid, but then again, that didn’t make sense because Lucas could easily fight Fallon for custody of Aiden and still get laid by all the females that threw themselves at him.

He didn’t need Fallon.

So why?

Fallon was going to drive herself insane trying to figure Lucas Brooks out, so she took a deep breath in and decided to go to bed. When she stood up, Aiden sat up quickly, looking around the room.