Lucas had known, and he didn’t tell her.

“Let me go,” she said quietly. Audrey and Levi looked up at Lucas and Fallon took in a deep breath. “Let me go right now Lucas, I got to go.”

Lucas turned his whole body, walking with her in his arms towards the door. When they reached the door, he let her go and she turned to look past him to Audrey. “Get dressed, and meet me at the house.”

Audrey looked down at Levi and then back up at her, nodding her head. “Okay.”

She looked up at Lucas and shook her head. “I can’t believe you kept this from me.”

“Fallon, she told me she was going to tell you.”

Fallon shook her head. “You promised you’d never lie to me.”

“I didn’t lie to you,” he insisted, his hands in tight fists beside his waist.

“Um, yeah you did!” she yelled. “You knew I was worried about my sister and you knew who was hurting her! How dare you! How dare you keep this from me! That’s my baby sister!”

“I know Fallon, but I was trying to give her a chance! Don’t f**king get mad at me because your sister made a bad decision.”

“Whatever,” she snapped before opening the door and going out into the rain.

“Don’t walk away from me! We aren’t done!” Lucas yelled as she ran down the steps. When he grabbed her hand, she jerked it from him before glaring up at him. The rain was ice cold and felt like little shards of glass biting into Fallon’s skin as she looked up at the man that had betrayed her — again.

“Yes we are done! I can’t believe this. I was finally trusting you, and this is what you do to me?!”

“I didn’t do anything to you. I tried to give your sister a chance to come clean!” he stressed, fear filling his eyes. “Don’t do this, don’t blame me.”

Fallon shook her head. “The funny thing was that I when I saw her come down the stairs, I was like oh my God, he is sleeping with my sister, but then I knew that wasn’t true. It was in that instant I knew that you would never cheat on me,” she said. The rain started to fall faster and even with the rain beating against her skin, she didn’t feel it. All she could feel was her heart breaking apart inside. “Just when I started to trust you again, just when I was about to tell you I loved you, you f**k us up! Again!”

Lucas ran his hands over his face, letting out a frustrated yell before looking down at her. “I did nothing wrong here. Maybe I should have told you, but damn it Fallon, I love Audrey. I wanted to give her the chance to tell you! I wanted you and her to work it out!”

“You should have warned me, or made her tell me as soon as you found out! It’s obvious that you’ve known for a while,” she yelled. Rain was running into her eyes and mouth making it hard for her to yell. She was too upset to care.

“I’ve known for a week at the most! I don’t know what you want from me. I try so hard to please you, I do everything to make you see that I love you and only you, but you twist everything I do and make it bad. It’s like you want us to fail, that you’ve strung me along to make me think this was going to work when really you were just waiting for me to f**k up!”

Fallon shook her head. “I wanted us to work Lucas, but I can’t be with someone that keeps things from me, especially when it comes to Audrey. What’s next? Are you going to start keeping things about Aiden from me?!”

“I would never do that!”

“But Lucas, you knew how upset and scared I was!”

“Whatever Fallon, there is nothing I can say to make this right. I feel like I’ve been fighting for something that was never going to be mine. I wished for you to love me again so I could marry you and make babies with you, but it doesn’t matter. You are throwing us away, and for what? Because I didn’t tell you something that your sister should have told you?” he asked. His hands were in the middle of his chest as he looked down at her with the saddest eyes.

“You betrayed me,” she simply said as the tears rolled down her cheeks, mixing with the ice cold rain.

“I did not. I’ve only loved you. If anyone is betraying anyone, you are betraying me.”

Fallon looked at him like he was crazy, her nose flaring as she took in a deep breath. “And how is that?!”

“You said you would try, that you would give me a second chance, but you didn’t. You don’t believe me when I tell you that I have done absolutely nothing wrong here.”

“That’s what you feel, but I feel different,” Fallon said with a shrug of her shoulder.

Lucas shook his head, “Don’t walk away Fallon. Don’t do this.”

“I have to get my son,” she said before taking in a staggered breath. “I gotta go.”

Fallon turned and started for her car as her hot tears ran faster down her cheeks. As she reached for the car handle, Lucas said, “So it’s safe to say you won’t be back?”

Fallon couldn’t look at him as she shook her head. She heard him let out an empty laugh as she opened her car door and got in. As she pulled out, she watched as he stood in the rain, looking down at the ground. He looked so defeated and so hurt but Fallon refused to be hurt by him. Not again. He supposedly loved her more this time.

What a crock of shit.

Lucas stood in the rain until he couldn’t take the cold anymore. As he slowly walked to the house, he now knew he would never be with Fallon and his heart slowly broke. He felt like his chest was ripping open and his heart was falling out as he climbed the steps to the front door. Lucas had never felt such intense pain. Why did it hurt so badly? It hadn’t felt like this when she left the first time, so why was he hurting so badly now? Was it the fact that he knew she was truly done with him? Or maybe because he knew he would never see her but to get their son? That he would never feel her sweet lips against his, that he would never feel her skin touch his, never be able to hear her beautiful lips whisper his name. Was that why he was hurting so bad? Or was it because he was sober this time around?