Trying to Score (Assassins) Read online

  How did this little boy already have his heart with just one grin? Or was it three days ago, when he asked who Lucas was?

  “Mom, it’s Friday!”

  “That’s right Mom, gosh!” Audrey said, coming up beside Aiden. “Go get your shoes bud. Let’s go out for a while. Mommy and Lucas need to talk.”

  Lucas looked over at Fallon, seeing that she was freaking out silently. Her eyes were wide as her mouth opened and closed like a guppy. Gosh, she was so cute.

  “Oh so, Lucas can’t come?” Aiden asked as Audrey smiled at him while Fallon made a face of distress.

  What was that about?

  “No baby, like I said, they need to talk grownup stuff. Let’s go get ice cream, and maybe go to the movies!”

  “Really?! Awesome!” Aiden ran off with nothing more than a punch in the air. Kid was quick. Lucas smiled. He was probably fast as hell on skates.

  Just like his daddy.

  “Audrey, you don’t have to leave,” Fallon said through her teeth. Lucas couldn’t help but smile. She was so cute when she didn’t like the situation she was put in. Too bad he didn’t care because they had things to discuss.

  “Yes, we do. Aiden doesn’t need to witness World War Three between you two,” Audrey said before she pinned Levi with a look. Lucas looked over to see his best friend checking out Fallon’s curvy sister. “Hey, you, you’re coming with us. They need to do this alone.”

  Levi looked at Lucas and all Lucas did was shrugged his shoulders. “She’s probably right.”

  “Don’t sign anything,” Levi said before giving Fallon a look.

  “Oh get real Levi, like I would screw him over,” Fallon said with disgust in her voice.

  Levi laughed. “This coming from someone that kept someone’s kid from him for seven years.”

  Fallon’s face twisted with anger and maybe guilt as she looked over to see Aiden running towards them. When Aiden reached them, he grinned up at Lucas before looking over at Fallon.

  “Ready to go, bud?” Fallon asked, moving her hands through his hair. Aiden nodded his head quickly.

  “Yes ma’am. Will you be here when I get back Lucas?” Aiden asked, looking back at Lucas as he took Audrey’s hand in his.

  “I don’t know, we’ll see okay?” Lucas said, his heart beating so hard that he was sure it going to come out of his chest.

  Lucas smiled, he couldn’t help himself. He found another person that made his heart race. That must mean something because there was only one other person that could, and that was Fallon.

  Lucas looked up at Fallon, and she looked sad as she bent over to kiss Aiden’s cheek. “Have fun, bud.”

  “I will, love you, bye!”

  After everyone left with goodbyes, Fallon just stood there with worry all over her face. Once she shut the door behind everyone, she glanced over at Lucas. She didn’t say anything as she walked off towards the kitchen. He followed her through the small home and was surprised that it was the place she lived in. When he had come there three days ago, he thought the whole building was their home but as he got closer tonight, he saw that there was another door and that blew his mind.

  Why were they living in a little bitty condo?

  He knew damn well Fallon had money, lots of it. She always got mad when he paid for stuff when they were together. She always said that she wouldn’t depend on a man. It was a refreshing, even though he paid anyways.

  Lucas took in all the pictures along Fallon’s walls. Aiden graced most of them, but there were some of just her and Audrey. The sisters could have been twins. Audrey was just a little thicker. Lucas had never even seen a picture of Audrey or really knew much about her. Fallon never talked about her family when they were together. She would bring Audrey up but never told him about her. Then again, Lucas never asked — he was too consumed in Fallon, or his addictions.

  Now he wanted to know everything because of Aiden and because he was still just as curious about Fallon as he was the day he met her.

  When Lucas looked up, he saw that Fallon was pouring two glasses of wine. He didn’t say anything as he watched her hand shake. She looked everywhere but at him.

  “I don’t drink Fallon,” he said quietly. She looked up before she stopped pouring.

  “Oh,” she said before picking the glass up and throwing it into the sink, breaking it in the process. The loud sound of breaking glass made her jump before she looked back at him with a shocked look on her face. When she looked away, throwing herself into the closest chair, a smirk came across his face. Fallon then started to guzzle her glass of wine, and that caused him to smile fully at her.

  Yeah, this was going to be fun.

  “So what do you want?”

  Lucas shook his head as he sat across from her. “Obviously to talk about the little guy we made.”

  Fallon shrugged her shoulders. “What is there to talk about? I don’t need anything from you, I don’t want anything, we’re fine,” she said in her snotty little voice.

  Lucas had prepared himself for this; he knew she was going to be bitchy, and proud. That was Fallon when she didn’t know how to handle a situation. Before, when her dad would call when they were dating, she would be the worst person ever to deal with for at least an hour after talking to him. She always apologized, saying that she didn’t know how to handle being hurt or scared. She always lashed out at someone and even with that flaw he had loved her.

  Still did.

  “I just want to know my kid and,” Lucas held open his jacket, pulling out some paperwork that his lawyer had put together for Fallon. “And, I need you to fill this out. My lawyer needs some information, and I don’t doubt that Aiden is mine — I know he is — but we need a paternity test.”

  “Whatever,” she said, snatching the papers from him and throwing them down on the table before crossing her arms across her chest. She had an I-don’t-give-a-fuck look on her face, and he knew that she was freaking out so bad that she was close to shaking. “So I guess you want to spend time with him, be a part-time dad and all that jazz.”

  Wow, that stung a little. He wasn’t going to be a damn part-time dad!

  He shook his head. “Damn, you can still be a bitch when you feel threatened, huh? What the hell is your problem? Am I yelling at you? Am I slapping you with lawsuits for keeping my son away from me?”

  “No! But I bet it’s fucking coming and you can go on with that shit. We’ll run and you will never see him again,” Fallon yelled before standing up and going to the sink. Nothing was said as he watched her pick up the glass from the sink.

  “I wouldn’t do that to you, and you know that.”

  “I don’t know shit. You told me you’d never cheat on me neither, but look how that went.”

  Lucas rolled his eyes. “Come on Fallon, let it go. We have more important things to worry about.”

  She turned, going to the trash and throwing away the glass that she held. “I’ll fill out the paperwork Lucas. I’ll have it ready for you tomorrow. What else do you want from me?”

  He could name a lot of things, starting with her mouth on his, but that would have to wait.

  He had a little guy to get to know.

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  Fallon was freaking out.

  She didn’t know what Lucas was thinking and she hated that. Before she could predict what he was about to do before he even did it, but now she had no clue. They were older, there were bigger factors in play, and she was just plain scared out of her mind of him. Why did Audrey have to leave? If she wouldn’t have left, Fallon could have done this better. Fallon was being a bitch and she knew that Lucas could only deal with so much of her bitchiness before he started yelling.

  “I just want to know my kid Fallon, that’s all,” Lucas said as he looked down at the table, scratching at something, probably cookie residue. “How old is he? Seven?”

  “He’ll be seven in two weeks, the 26th,” she said, even though she felt like she was giving him a piece