Fallon was speechless as Lucas backed up some while Aiden ran around them, throwing things out of all the bags that lined the couch. Fallon tore her gaze away from Lucas’ and looked down at all the things that lined the couch. “Goodness me,” she gasped as Aiden pulled outfit after outfit out of each bag. Fallon watched and listened as Aiden went on and on about all the things he got and how Lucas spent so much money. Fallon couldn’t believe the amount of bags that were on her couch. How much did Lucas spend? And why? Was he trying to show her up? She knew the earrings she wore were expensive and he had to have dropped a pretty penny on all the clothes he got for Aiden, all the bags were name brands. Every time she glanced at Lucas, he looked embarrassed as he smiled over at Aiden. Lucas was spoiling Aiden, something she just couldn’t afford to do.

“He bought me an iPad too, so when he’s gone we can talk, oh yeah!” Aiden yelled, causing Fallon to jump. “Can Lucas stay the night?”

Fallon took a step back, trying to control her breathing.

Lucas in her house? At night?!

Um, no.

“I wanted to stay at his house but it’s getting new floors and we are going to his house early in the morning to practice hockey and since he is leaving next week I wanted to spend time with him before he left. I’m gonna miss him a lot, Mommy, so please, I promise we won’t stay up all night and we’ll be quiet. Please.”

Aiden wanted to stay with Lucas?

Fallon couldn’t breathe as Aiden begged and begged for Lucas to stay. When she glanced over at Lucas, he was just smiling, looking like the most innocent guy in the world. Shit! If she said no, she would be the bad guy. She had already kept them apart long enough and he was leaving next week.

Oh God, this sucked!

“Please Mommy!”

“Ah, Aiden! Goodness me, if Lucas’ wants, I don’t care,” Fallon said as she moved away from them. She felt like she was gonna start crying. How did this happen? Aiden used to only want Fallon and now it was all about Lucas. Aiden didn’t even know that Lucas was his dad and he already wanted to spend all his time with him. What was going to happen when they told him? Was he going to want to live with Lucas? Completely leave Fallon all by herself?

Tears threatened to fall, so Fallon headed for the stairs. “Aiden James, leave all them clothes on the couch, I’ll get ‘em later. There’s dinner on the stove.”

“Where are you going Mom?”

“To bed, I have a headache,” she said as she quickly climbed the stairs. She figured Lucas could take care of Aiden and didn’t bother saying anything to him. When she reached her room, she shut the door before falling into the bed face first. She wrapped herself up in the sheets just as the sobs started ripping out of her.

She hated crying over this, but she was just so jealous. Why did Lucas have to come into their lives? He had already ruined her and here he was again, taking the only thing she had left after he took her heart. What if he left again? Fallon knew he said he wasn’t going anywhere but what if he did? Then what? Aiden basically thought Lucas hung the moon and the stars, he could do no wrong so what was Fallon going to do if he left? Not only would it break Aiden’s heart but it would break Fallon all over again. She still loved him and seeing him day after day only made it worse. No matter how much she didn’t want Lucas, her body craved him and it was getting harder and harder with each passing day to resist him.

Lucas said she wore his and Aiden’s hearts, and little did he know — or maybe he did know — that he held both theirs. No matter how much she didn’t want him having her heart, he had it and probably always would. If Fallon gave him her body too, she would be back to the way they were so long ago. Back to when she was convinced that Lucas did hang the moon and stars and that she would never love someone the way she loved him.

Which she never had.

Lucas was the only one she had ever loved and Fallon just couldn’t understand it. How could she want someone that hurt her so bad that she felt like her life was over? She had cried more over Lucas Brooks than she had over anyone in her whole life, and here she was still crying over him. This time though, it was more because of Aiden than herself. She was just so scared of Lucas and really didn’t know how to handle it.

Fallon moved her hand along her cheek, catching the tears that rolled down her face, when someone opened the door. She froze, praying that it was Audrey and not Lucas or Aiden. Her back was to the door since she was crying and she didn’t want to turn to look in case it was Aiden or Lucas.

“Audrey?” she asked, trying to wipe her face free of tears but she knew it wasn’t Audrey.

“It’s me.”

Lucas’ velvet soft voice ran down Fallon’s spine and her heart started to beat faster.

Shit, shit, shit.

“Um, I’m trying to sleep,” she whispered as she buried herself deeper into the bed.

“I heard you crying Fallon, stop lying to me.”

Fallon’s chest heaved as she held in a sob. She wanted him to leave and she wanted him to hold her all in one. She was so confused and screwed up in the head that it was a miracle she could actually function.

“What do you want?” she asked as she felt him sit on the edge of the bed. Her heart picked up in speed when she felt his hand rest on her hip. Her breathing was erratic and she didn’t know what to do or say.

The only sounds in the bedroom was their breathing, that was until Lucas whispered, “To make you stop crying.”