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  Lucas looked over at Fallon, but couldn’t tell if she was looking at him because she had put on some dark sunglasses. He looked at Audrey and saw that she had a big grin on her face. She clapped her hands before saying, “Well I’m gonna go get some food with Mom and Daddy.”

  And off she went, leaving Lucas with a very pissed off Fallon. Her anger was radiating off her, and Lucas didn’t blame Audrey for running off. He kind of wished she had taken him with her, but then he glanced at the Fallon’s dad and decided Fallon would be easier to deal with.

  “You look good today, Fal,” he said against his better judgment.

  Fallon looked over at him. “Thanks,” she said sharply as she turned and started walking off. He shook his head as he jogged lightly to catch up with her.

  “Is that your mom and dad?” he asked trying to keep up with her. He would have thought the high heels she wore would have slowed her down.

  They didn’t.

  “Yeah, why don’t you go introduce yourself?” she snapped, causing him to laugh.

  “I’m pretty sure that would mean throwing myself to the wolves, so I’ll pass.”

  “Good choice,” she mumbled as she climbed the bleachers.

  Lucas followed a little behind her so he could admire her ass as she climbed the stairs. Call him a dog, but Fallon had a fine ass and he loved watching it in motion. She sat down and Lucas sat beside her, resting his arms on his knees as he watched Aiden warm up. When a tall lanky guy with a white curly hair came over to Aiden and started talking to him, Lucas looked over at Fallon.

  “Who’s the dweeb?”

  “Aiden’s coach,” she answered as the guy turned, looking up at the bleachers. When his eyes settled on Fallon, he waved and Lucas watched as Fallon put on her fake smile and waved back. The dweeb gave her a goofy smile before turning back to Aiden.

  “You like that guy?” Lucas blurted out.

  “I’m not in the mood, Lucas.”

  “What? I asked a simple question?”

  “A question that is none of your business,” Fallon warned as she looked down the bleachers. Lucas followed her gaze and saw her parents walking up the bleachers with Audrey. Audrey said something and kept climbing up the stairs, while her parents sat down with their food.

  “Um, yes it is, if that dweeb is going to be around my kid,” Lucas replied as Audrey sat beside him.

  “Shut up, Lucas,” Fallon snapped as she put her elbows on her knees with her face in her hands.

  Lucas looked at her for a moment more before turning his attention to Audrey. “What the hell is her problem?”

  Audrey rolled her eyes as she swallowed the bite of hot dog she had just eaten. “Her and Dad got into it about you.”

  “Thanks, Audrey,” Fallon mumbled.

  “Oh,” Lucas said as he turned his attention back to Fallon, “should I watch my back?”

  Audrey started giggling and Fallon’s mouth pulled at the side but she didn’t laugh as she shrugged her shoulders. “I don’t care what you do.”

  Lucas smiled as he leaned a little closer to her, and he was surprised when she didn’t move away. “Can I watch yours?” he whispered. Fallon turned her head to look at him.

  “You can watch all you want, but you will never touch. Only Chase can,” she said in her snooty little way.

  “Who the hell is Chase?” Lucas asked. He leaned back from her, hating that his flirting didn’t work.

  Maybe she was becoming immune to his charm?

  “The coach, and don’t let her lie to you, she don’t even like him,” Audrey said from his side.

  “Shut up, Audrey,” Fallon snapped. Lucas laughed as he leaned against Audrey.

  “Thanks, I couldn’t tell if she was lying. She has those damn glasses on.”

  “Defense mechanism,” Audrey said as she threw a chip in her mouth.

  “True that,” Lucas laughed.

  “I do like him, thank you,” Fallon said, but Lucas ignored her as the game started. Aiden’s team took the field first, and Lucas sat on the edge of his seat. He was so excited to see Aiden play, even if he didn’t like baseball. It was just the fact that his boy was playing something that made him giddy with excitement.

  “Is he good?”

  Lucas didn’t know why he asked though — Brooks’ men were great at everything.

  “Sure,” Fallon answered through tight lips.

  “She’s lying again,” Audrey whispered. Lucas looked over at her.

  “She is?”

  “Oh yeah, I love him, but he’s terrible.”

  “I so hear you right now and I am telling him you said that!” Fallon said.

  Audrey giggled as Lucas looked over at Fallon. “He sucks and you’re still making him play?”

  “Shut up, Lucas,” Fallon said for what seemed like the hundredth time.

  Lucas rolled his eyes as he looked out on the field. He searched the field for his boy, and found him in right field. Even he knew that was bad, and he hated this sport. Aiden had his hands on his knees, ready for the ball while the left fielder chased a butterfly and the center fielder picked his nose. Why was his kid in right field? Especially with Coach Dweeb trying to sleep his Fallon! Obviously Coach Dweeb had no game.

  A very large child came up to bat and Lucas seriously thought about asking for the kid’s birth certificate. He was huge! The little kid on the pitching mound threw the ball with all his might and the kid smashed the ball. It went past the first basemen out into right field. Lucas stood quickly, excited because there was no way Aiden could miss the ball.

  But he did.

  It went right through his legs and Lucas fell back into the bleachers, smacking himself in the head.

  “It had a bad bounce,” Fallon said as Aiden ran after the ball.

  “Okay, Bill Buckner,” Lucas laughed.

  “Who is that?” Fallon asked.

  Lucas looked at her like she was the dumbest person in the world and when he looked at Audrey, she also had the same look on her face.

  “I’m gonna act like you did not just say that,” Lucas said as he looked back out onto the field.

  Fallon let out a little huff of air but he didn’t pay her any attention. He had a game to watch. Lucas learned quickly that baseball, for a bunch of six, seven, and eight year olds, was not competitive at all. While he wanted to scream his ass off at the little fat kid on second that let the ball go by him countless times, he knew he couldn’t. Moms awed over their little ones as the dad’s played on their phones. Even the coach just stood there, not giving any kind of direction what so ever!

  “Oh God, this is terrible,” Lucas mumbled as Aiden made his way to the batting box.

  It was the fifth inning and it was Aiden’s first time at bat. Every kid had struck out.

  “You haven’t seen anything yet,” Audrey whispered. Fallon shot her a dirty look.

  “One more time, Audrey, and I swear,” Fallon warned but Audrey just giggled as the pitcher got ready to throw the ball. Lucas saw that Fallon held her breath as the boy beamed the ball across the plate at their kid. It even made Lucas nervous. Aiden swung missing the pitch, but it was a good solid swing.

  “Kid needs a hockey stick, not a bat,” Lucas observed when the pitcher pitched again and Aiden missed.

  “I know, right?” Audrey agreed.

  “Whatever,” Fallon mumbled as Lucas watch Aiden strike out. Fallon stood up, clapping her hands. “It’s okay, Aiden. You’re awesome honey.”

  When Aiden glanced up at the stands, Lucas saw nothing but embarrassment in his eyes. Fallon sat back down and Lucas looked over at her. “Fallon, this is wrong. The kid hates this.”

  “He loves it.”

  “No, he doesn’t.”

  “I think I would know what my son likes,” she snapped, causing Lucas’ eye to twitch. He tried to calm himself down by counting to 10 but he felt his temper about to snap. He hated losing, and watching his son lose was making it really hard to keep his temper under control.