For the woman that takes my breath away – love you, Lucas.

Fallon’s heart warmed as tears rushed down her cheeks. She slid the ring on her finger quickly before she tore open the card, and then the tears came faster as she read.

My Fallon,

I could go on for days telling you the reasons I love you. I love you because I do, because you are my everything. The flower is a Kadupul flower and it’s the rarest flower that I could find. I got it because you are the rarest person I have ever met. You blow my mind with your awesomeness and I just love you Fallon, more than you’ll ever believe.

Happy Anniversary baby, here’s to a hundred more.

Love, Lucas.

Fallon dug her phone out of her pocket and saw that Lucas was probably on the ice, but she had to tell him thank you — she would leave him a voicemail. It only rang twice before someone surprisingly answered. The roar of a crowd filled the phone as the guy yelled into the phone.

“Ms. Parker, just a second, he is finishing up his line. He’ll be off…now.”

“Oh my God,” Fallon said breathlessly as she heard the phone being transferred. He had someone waiting for her call? He was perfect!

“Happy Anniversary, baby girl,” Lucas said and then Fallon heard the guys razzing him.

“Oh my God, Lucas, you’re amazing. I only got you that stick you wanted with my name on it!”

His laughter rang over the phone. “And I loved it. I’m sorry I didn’t call earlier.”

“It's okay, I love you.”

“I love you more, baby girl,” he said with all the love in the world in his voice, “so much more.”

“Go score for me?”

“I’m always scoring for you.”

“I do love you Lucas.”

“And I love you.”

It was sad really, that a post-it note that said ‘You have two messages’ was what triggered that memory. Rob, Fallon’s assistant, always used post-it notes to tell her things and would leave them on her computer screen. It was the first time Rob had done it since Lucas had come to Nashville and when she saw the little pink post-it note, her breath caught as that moment came back to her.

It had been a month since Lucas had come home.

A long, looking behind her back, checking corners and not going anywhere month.

She was pathetic.

Fallon knew she should just face Lucas and get it over with, but each day it got harder and harder. Every time Aiden looked at Fallon, she wanted to cry because not only was she keeping the secret from Lucas, she was keeping it from Aiden. Aiden deserved a better mom, one that wasn’t scared of some guy who broke her heart into a billion pieces.

“Why are you just standing there like that?”

Fallon turned quickly, seeing Rob Slater in the doorway with his hands on his waist. His extremely long brown hair came over his shoulders, his tight pink shirt under his blazer jacket had Madonna looking back at her. His pants were, of course, tighter than Fallon’s, and all Fallon could think was how the hell she was gonna take him to this presentation when he looked better than she did.

“Dazed out,” Fallon answered as she fell into her plush pink chair.

Gosh, she loved this chair. It was so pink and fluffy. Since the company’s color was orange, Fallon made sure that her office was bright pink, and it was just plain gorgeous. Every surface was either pink or white, with glitter here and there. Pictures of her, Audrey and Aiden filled the office. She loved it, and it made her happy inside. The best part was her dad hated it, and that made Fallon happy all in itself.

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“You’ve been weird the last couple weeks,” Rob said as he sat down, crossing his legs. It made Fallon sick how great Rob’s legs looked. Her legs didn’t even look that good.

“Lots of stuff going on.”

“Like? Come on, you tell me everything.”

Not everything, she thought as she started gathering her notes for the presentation.

“Don’t worry about it; are you almost ready to go?”

“Yuppers, everything is packed in your car,” Rob said before standing and heading for the door. That was the great thing about Rob, he always knew when Fallon needed to be alone.

“Thank you,” she said as the door shut. She looked up at her screen and tore the post-it note down and threw it away.

That memory really messed with Fallon’s head and her hands shook from the images that played through her mind. Fallon hadn’t thought of that day in years, okay, maybe on the anniversary of the day every year, but not all the time. At that moment though, it was like the whole night was replaying in her head.

Lucas had come home early the next morning. They made love, slow and sweet, before lying in each other’s arms until sunrise. He told her he couldn’t live without her and that he loved just her and she told him the same, that her life wasn’t complete without him. Then just a short week later, he broke her heart.

A stray tear ran down her cheek, and Fallon quickly wiped it away. How was she still so raw after seven years? Just with one image of the day he broke her heart and she was in a puddle of tears.

Why?

Why did he have to come to Nashville?

There was a knock at the door and Fallon quickly wiped her tears as the door opened. Aiden came running into the room with a big white Gerber Daisy in one hand and a grin on his face. “Mommy! AA brought me over to wish you luck and to give you a flower and a kiss before school!”

Audrey came in behind him, and bless her, with a large Starbucks cup in hand.