Or could he?

He was pretty f**ked up back then — of course she didn’t know that — but still, he was. Would he have gotten his shit together and taken responsibility for Aiden, or would he have turned back to the bottle like he did for everything else? There was no way to tell, but Lucas still would have liked to have known about Aiden.

The apology Fallon gave him wasn’t good enough, and he would expect another one when he was able to confront her. She had to know that she was wrong for what she did. After everything they talked about as a couple, about how he would never want his children growing up without a father because he knew how it hurt, how it could f**k a kid up. He was a prime example and what killed him the most was that there was a child running around with Lucas’ father’s name and he didn’t even know who he was.

How was that fair to either one of them?

Lucas must have fallen asleep because he woke up to Levi standing over him by his bed. Lucas rolled over, wiping his nose as he looked up at his best friend.

“What the hell is your problem? Fallon blow you off?” Levi asked with a smirk. “That chick is going to be hard to catch.”

“I have a kid,” Lucas whispered, causing Levi’s eyes to go wide. He never kept things from Levi, and this was something huge that he needed to know about.

“Excuse me?”

“I have a kid, Aiden.”

Levi face twisted in shock as he tried to focus of Lucas. “I’m sorry I must have not heard you, did you say you have a kid named Aiden?”

“I did, because I do.”

Levi fell onto the bed, breathing in through his mouth and then out through his mouth. “How do you know? Whose is it? Fallon’s?”

“Yeah, and if you would have seen him, you wouldn’t disagree with me. The kid looks just like me,” Lucas said breathlessly as he thought back to the moment when his and Aiden’s eyes met.

The exact same color, shade and shape. His father’s eyes, now his son’s.

“So you don’t actually know if he is yours?”

“No, I know. I’m telling you Levi, one look is all you need to know,” Lucas said sadly. He just couldn’t get over the fact that there has been a little person running around with his DNA and he had never met him. Even tonight, he wasn’t introduced to Aiden, he just saw him.

What did he like?

Did he play sports?

Did he like hockey?

Did he ask about his dad?

What did Fallon tell him about Lucas?

But most of all, did he have dyslexia?

So many questions, and Lucas had no answers.

“We’ll we need to get a hold of Richard Price, get some paperwork going. Probably going to need a paternity test, and find out the legal shit. I mean, is there going to be back child support?” Levi asked as he stood up and started pacing the bedroom.

Lucas shrugged his shoulders. “I don’t care about that stuff, I just want to get to know my son.”

“Not until we get some answers,” Levi said, giving him a pointed look.

Lucas sat up quickly, pinning Levi with a look that told him not to f**k with him. “I didn’t even know I had a son an hour ago, and now you’re telling me I have to wait to get to know him?”

“Lucas I am doing this for you. Have I ever steered you wrong?”

Lucas shook his head. “No.”

“Okay then, give me a couple days. We’re going out of town anyways for that game in New York, by the time we get back there shouldn’t be an issue with you seeing Aiden.”

Lucas slowly nodded; he’d give Levi a couple days, but nothing more.

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“Mommy, who was that guy that you were kissing?”

Fallon looked over at Aiden from the book that she was reading. It had been hours since Lucas had left and Aiden hadn’t said anything. While her emotions were going crazy, she was thankful he hadn’t asked but she knew in her heart that it was bound to happen. Fallon slowly shut the book, taking a deep breath in.

“Just someone I know.”

“What’s his name?”

“Lucas.”

Aiden nodded. “Lucas what?”

“Lucas Brooks.”

Aiden looked up at her. “Like my name.”

“Yeah, like yours.”

Aiden looked back down at his hands, and Fallon prayed Aiden didn’t ask if Lucas was his dad. She just couldn’t handle it, not until she talked to Lucas and found out what he was thinking.

“Is he your boyfriend?”

Fallon shook her head. “No, honey.”

“But you were kissing him.”

“I know, but sometimes adults kiss other adults.”

“Oh, okay,” Aiden said before looking up at her. “Will Lucas came back?”

Fallon shrugged her shoulders. “I don’t know honey.”

“Do you like him?”

Fallon smiled. “Sometimes.” Aiden giggled as he cuddled closer to her.

“I wanna meet him. Can he come back?”

Fallon didn’t know why the words stung but they did. Fallon knew that Lucas knew Aiden was his son just with one look. Could Aiden tell? Maybe he was just being his six-year-old self and wanting a man around. Aiden loved Rob. Audrey had once said that Aiden starves for male attention, was that all this was?

Or did he really know that Lucas was his daddy?

“I don’t know honey, if he wants.”

“Can you call him?”