Trying to Score (Assassins) Read online

  “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 fuck 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?”

  “I don’t know Lucas’ number, but I’m pretty sure he’ll call me.”

  “And you’ll invite him over for dinner?”

  Fallon bit her lip, she didn’t want to promise something that she didn’t know could be true. So she smiled, snuggling close to her favorite guy before saying, “We’ll see.”

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  Lucas was basically playing the worst game of his life two days later.

  “22! Get your shit together or get off the fucking ice!” Adler screamed from the defensive zone.

  Lucas shot him a look before getting ready for the face off. He wasn’t going anywhere, he started this game, and he was going to fucking finish it. Lucas won the faceoff, skating forward as Adler passed him the puck. Lucas skated hard, keeping the puck from his opponent before sending it across ice to Welch. He skated towards the goal just as Welch passed it back to him for him to shoot. He pulled back for the shot and when he released, he totally missed the puck, causing one of the Rangers to steal it before heading down ice towards their goal.

  Lucas never missed a shot.

  God, he was fucked in the head.

  When he heard the buzz off, his head fell. Not only was he sucking, but their defense was off too. Jakob and Shea weren’t doing what they usually did, they were lagging. And because of it all, the Assassins lost their third game in a row. Lucas followed his teammates into the locker room. Once inside, he walked straight to his bench, falling onto it as he leaned his head down, taking in deep breaths.

  Man, he hated losing.

  When he heard the door slam, he looked up to see Adler with his face red with anger.

  “That game was bullshit! What the hell guys? We are better than this!” he yelled as he threw his helmet and gloves into his locker area. “Brooks, what the fuck? You missed all your shots tonight. Nothing went in and you had open shots!”

  Lucas looked up at Adler before standing slowly just as Mrs. Adler walked in with the coaches. “I know you are not talking to me about my game? They got past you and scored three fucking times.”

  “That might be the case, but I played my ass off, what the hell did you do? You looked like a fucking zombie out there!” Adler yelled taking a step towards him.

  “I played my ass off, too!” Lucas yelled right back, taking a step towards him. Jakob came over, standing beside the guys. Probably in case someone did something they shouldn’t.

  “You did not! What the hell was going on!?”

  “Nothing, some people have off nights! You should know all about that, you sucked tonight!”

  “I just had a baby; I’m adjusting!”

  Lucas faced turned red with anger and he got right into Shea’s face. “And I just found out I have a fucking kid, so back the fuck up.”

  The locker room went quiet except for the intake of breath that Mrs. Adler took in. Lucas glanced over at her and finally knew what his boss knew that he didn’t. Shea took a step back, and Lucas did the same before going to his locker to take a seat. Everyone was staring at him as he took deep breaths in and out.

  It had been two days since he found out about Aiden and he was a mess. He hadn’t called Fallon or even gone to see her because he was having such a hard time dealing with it all. Aiden had been on his mind from sun up to sun down, and he was driving himself crazy with questions about the little guy. He was so scared that Aiden wasn’t going to like him. He didn’t know how to be a dad and it scared him to think of all the things he could fuck up. He worried about what Fallo