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by Toni Aleo
Fallon hiccupped a sob as she ran to him, wrapped her arms around his neck and kissed him hard against his lips. His arms came around her waist and picked her up as he deepened the kiss. When they parted, she place three kisses against his lips before smiling down at him. “I wouldn’t want this any other way than with you by my side.”
Lucas closed his eyes, leaning his head against her. “Good because I’m not going anywhere, baby girl.”
Fallon shook her head before looking over at the space that was going to be her cellar. “I can’t believe you did this.”
When she glanced back at Lucas, he was smiling at her, “It’s what you do for someone you love.”
“A five-year lease is a whole lotta of love,” she joked.
Lucas shrugged his shoulders. “I have a lifetime of love, just for you, baby.”
Fallon gave him a loving smile and she knew this was the moment. Fallon’s heart felt as if it was going to explode as she gazed into his eyes. She took in a deep breath and then said, “I lo...”
“So what do we think?!”
Fallon looked over at the person that interrupted their moment. Elli stood in a cute yellow sundress and matching yellow pumps. Her smile was brighter than her dress but for once, Fallon wasn’t happy to see her. She would never get this moment back, and she hated that Elli had interrupted it.
“I think she’s happy,” Lucas answered, grinning over at Fallon. She looked deep into his eyes, moving her hands along her cheeks to catch her happy tears. He gave her a grin before leaning up and kissing her nose.
Fallon nodded and then looked over at Elli. “I’m beyond it.”
“So you really love it?” Lucas asked.
Fallon looked over at him from her spot on the couch. After spending the morning going over paperwork with Elli, Fallon decided to skip work and come home to be with Lucas. They were both dog tired but Fallon couldn’t go to sleep. She wanted to spend all her time with him, and sleep could wait. She took a hold of his hand and smiled.
“I do Lucas, thank you so much.”
He smiled. “Good,” he said running his thumb along her hand, “so I’m just going to throw this out there.”
Fallon raised an eyebrow as she smiled. “What?”
Lucas ran his tongue along his lips and Fallon took in a sharp breath as lust took over her body. She sure did love that tongue of his. Lucas grinned down at her as he threw one of her legs over behind his back so that he could lie down on top of her. His hard body pressed down into her soft one but she didn’t mind. She welcomed it.
“I’m pretty sure,” he said running his lips down her jaw. It was hypnotic and her eyes fell shut as he moved them back up to her mouth, “that you were going to tell me you loved me outside your new wine cellar.”
Fallon’s eyes shot open to see him grinning down at her. She scoffed as she smiled. “You’ll never know.”
He chuckled. “Oh come on, say it. Just whisper it.”
“Noooo,” she complained, “I want to say it when you don’t expect it!”
Lucas laughed. “So you are not denying it.”
Fallon shrugged her shoulders. “I ain’t saying nothing.”
Lucas let out a frustrated breath. “You are being difficult.”
“You’ll be okay,” she giggled. “So anyways, when’s Tate coming by?”
“In a little while,” Lucas pouted but Fallon ignored him.
“Hmmm, you know I wish he was older. Him and Audrey would be so cute together.”
Lucas looked away, taking in a breath. “Yeah.”
“You know, maybe we can find someone for her, then she’ll leave the douche!”
Lucas nodded, still not looking at her. “Has she talked about him?”
Fallon shrugged her shoulders. “She tells me that they are great,” Fallon said with disdain in her voice. “It makes me sick, ‘cause I want to know who he is so I can kill him.”
“Yeah.”
Fallon looked up at him. “What?”
Lucas looked down at her. “Nothing, I was just thinking about who would be good for her.”
Fallon suspected her was lying, but why would he do that? He wouldn’t lie to her, they were solid and everything was perfect so she smiled before saying, “I was thinking number 15, he is hot!”
Lucas glared. “Anderson?’
“Sure, the blonde-haired guy. Total hottie. Audrey will love him.”
Lucas laughed. “He’s a player.”
“Aren’t all hockey players?”
Lucas pinned her with a look before saying, “I’m not, and neither is Adler, Welch, or Titov.”
“That’s ‘cause y’all are blessed with hot females in your lives. Anderson just needs a hot chick, and my sister is that.”
Lucas smiled, “I’ll talk to him.”
“Yay! You’re the best.”
He gave her a sad smile. “Obviously not, since you won’t tell me you love me,” he complained.
Fallon started to laugh. “Oh hush,” she said with a flick of the hand, “and tell me how you are going to win these next two games so that we can lay in bed together until you leave again.”
“Shh!” Lucas exclaimed, “You’ll jinx us.”
Fallon laughed, wrapping her arms around her neck and kissing him deeply. When they parted she flashed him the biggest grin ever and then said, “I can’t jinx the best team in the NHL!”
Fallon had jinxed them.
After beating the Wild in their home arena, they came to Nashville with guns blazing and shut the Assassins out. It was extremely embarrassing. Not only was the arena sold out, but Aiden and Fallon had come to the watch the game. Lucas hated losing, but he loathed losing in front of the two people he loved.
Lucas came out of the player’s exit to see Fallon and Aiden waiting for him. Aiden looked adorable in his number #22 jersey and his Assassins ball cap. It made him feel good to see his number on his boy, but when he looked up at Fallon, he no longer felt good. Lucas felt great. She wore a pair of tight jeans with his old Sharks jersey, her shoes matching the turquoise of the jersey and her hair in a pretty side braid. She looked spectacular, and even with the loss he couldn’t help the grin that came over his face.
Aiden came running towards him and jumped into his arms, wrapping his little arms around Lucas’ neck.
“You lost,” he stated.
“I know. Sucks huh?”
“Yeah, I told Mom it was her fault for wearing that jersey instead of an Assassins one.”
Lucas smiled over at Fallon. She looked up at him with a bashful grin and shrugged her shoulders. “Maybe he’s right?”
“Maybe, but that’s okay, it wasn’t our night,” he said. He wrapped an arm around Fallon’s neck, and brought his lips to her head. “I think you look hot.”
“Eww!” Aiden complained.
“You hush,” Lucas scolded jokingly as Aiden giggled.
Fallon giggled as she wrapped her arms around his middle. “Thanks but I think I jinxed y’all,” she said sadly. “Sorry.”
Lucas smiled. “Can’t win them all babe, we’ll get ‘em tomorrow. Now come on, let’s go back to your house and watch some movies or something.”
Fallon nodded as Aiden started to bounce in his arms, “Even though you lost, can we get ice cream!?”
Lucas nodded before leaning over and kissing Aiden’s cheek. “We sure can.”
As they made their way to Fallon’s car, Lucas felt that even if the Assassins lost every single game, he would still come out of the arena feeling like a winner.
That is, as long as Fallon and Aiden were waiting for him.
Luckily, the Assassins won the next night, but it still meant that Lucas had to say goodbye to Fallon and Aiden the next day since the guys had to fly out to Minnesota for game five. Since the team was flying out early in the morning, Lucas didn’t asked Fallon and Aiden to come to the airfield. Instead, he kissed them goodbye at her house before leaving for the airfield. After parking, he locked up hi
s truck and made his way to the plane with his gym bag on his arm. When he was stopped by someone grabbing his arm, he turned to see the last person he wanted to see that morning.
Levi.
Lucas jerked his arm out of his hand and crossed his arms. “What?”
“Listen, it’s weird between us and I don’t like it. What goes on in my love life is none of your business. I don’t stick my nose in yours, don’t sick yours in mine,” Levi said.
Lucas scoffed. “You’ve been on me about Fallon since the beginning, but that’s not the point. You went personal when you started whatever with Audrey. She’s Fallon’s sister and you know when Fallon finds out she is going to go ape shit.”
“I don’t care. Audrey’s fun to be with when she isn’t clingy and whiny. I like being naked with her, what’s the problem?”
“You hurt her and you call her names. That is where my problem comes in.”
Levi rolled his eyes. “It’s not my fault she doesn’t like it rough, she can stop it anytime. I call her names because she can be whiny. If she didn’t like it, again, she could leave. She obviously likes what I give her.”
Lucas shook his head. “She is in love with you, that’s why she stays.”
“That’s her fault. She’ll learn, but I’m not worried about her. I’m worried about us. You are my best friend.”
Lucas looked away before shaking his head. “I don’t know about that anymore Levi. I’m not the person I was when we became friends. I don’t know if I can deal with what you do anymore. I don’t like the way you talk to my girlfriend, I don’t like the way you treat her sister, and really, you get on my nerves with the women you bring in and out of my house. You are good to me when it comes to the business side, but I just don’t know about the friendship side anymore.”
Levi looked at Lucas as if he had just cut him in half, and it honestly hurt Lucas. He had been close to Levi his whole adult life, but he couldn’t take it anymore. People grow out of people and Lucas wasn’t the person he used to be. He was better. Levi had followed Lucas to help with his sobriety and Lucas would always love him for that, but it all came down to the fact that Fallon meant more. Lucas would never give her up, or give up his family, and that was one of the main problems between him and Levi. Levi hated that Lucas had done everything to make things right between himself and Fallon. That he would much rather spend time with his son and Fallon than spend time with Levi, but again, Lucas had changed.
It wasn’t him and Levi anymore.
It was him, Fallon, and Aiden.
Levi cleared his throat and looked off to the side. “Well at least I know where we stand.”
Lucas nodded before turning around and heading for the plane. Once inside, he found Odder and sat down beside him. He then noticed that Anderson was right beside him and Fallon’s request came to mind, but Lucas wasn’t in the mood to deal with Anderson. He was hurting from his encounter with Levi. He leaned back in the seat and closed his eyes, wishing like hell that Levi had grown up too. How long would Levi be the way he was, and was there a way for Lucas to help him? He knew in his heart there wasn’t, but it didn’t stop him from wishing there was.
As the plane took off, Odder smiled over at Lucas. “Good morning.”
Lucas smiled since Odder’s words were clear as day. “Good morning, I see the speech lady is working?”
Odder nodded his head. “Yes, very much so.”
“Good,” Lucas smiled, “Did you make a decision on the condo?”
“Yes, I am going to take it.”
Lucas nodded, “Great, it’s a nice place.”
“Yes, it is.”
Lucas chuckled at Odder’s few words. He couldn’t hate on the kid though, at least he was working hard to know the language.
“So you are good with women, yes?”
Lucas looked over and gave Odder a cocky grin. “I used to be. I’m a one-woman guy now,” he said with a wink.
Odder gave him a wide grin, showing off his gap as he said, “I want one woman, and I like my lady, I want to ask her out.”
“Lady?” Lucas asked.
“Yes, um, that, uh, speeeeeeeccchhhh lady,” he said enunciating each syllable.
“Oh! Okay, well ask her,” Lucas said with a shrug of his shoulders. “It can’t be hard.”
“No, I don’t think she likes me.”
“So? Make her like you,” Lucas smiled, shaking his head. “You got to have confidence, bud. You have to think that every girl in the world loves you and wants only you. That’s how I used to do, and I got myself a lot of females.”
“Yo, Odder,” Anderson said as he leaned across the aisle, “listen to Brooks, dude’s got mad game.”
Lucas laughed. “Who told you that?”
“My brother played with you back in the AHL, and when I told him about you being on the Assassins, he had nothing but stories for me,” Anderson said with a grin. “Epic stories.”
Lucas eyed Anderson, trying to put a face to his brother. Lucas had no problem remembering people but the AHL wasn’t his most sober period. “Who’s your brother?”
“Miles Anderson.”
Lucas laughed. “Man, I haven’t seen Miles in years. Tell him I said hi, and to stop telling my stories.”
Anderson laughed as he smacked Lucas’ arm and leaned back in his seat. Lucas looked over to see Odder looking over at him. “So you teach me?”
Lucas nodded his head. “I’ll help you out.”
Lucas had to, the kid was obviously desperate, and if Lucas could help he would. He could tell him some good lines and help him with his confidence, but that would be it. The kid was on his own after that.
Lucas leaned back in his seat and smiled. He was completely settled in with the Assassins and couldn’t have felt more at home. Between his home life and his work life things were great, but he still had that nagging feeling about Audrey. Lucas sat back up and reached over, smacking Anderson in the chest.
“You have a girlfriend?”
Anderson laughed. “Nah man, haven’t found that right girl yet.”
“I think I might know one.”
It was a close game, but the Assassins won and were going to the semifinals.
Thank God.
At the beginning of the period, Lucas was sure the Assassins were going to lose because the Wild were up by three, but by the grace of God, the guys came back and beat them 5-3. It had a lot to do with Adler, Titov and Odder — without those guys the Assassins wouldn’t have won. They were on point and brought the win home. After a long plane ride home and a grueling morning practice, Lucas sat on his couch watching the rain fall.
Lucas loved days like these It made him want to cuddle up with someone he loved and watch the rain fall but unfortunately, Fallon and Aiden were out with her parents. So Lucas sat alone in his big house, thinking about how much he wanted to be with them. He had missed them so much while he was gone and he was ready to spend the next few days with them before the Assassins faced off against whoever won between the Wings and Hawks. Lucas was hoping for the Hawks but either team was going to be hard, and the guys needed to be ready. It wasn’t going to be easy to get to that moment when he would hold the Cup above his head, but he wasn’t going to quit until he got there.
Lucas closed his eyes, lying back against the couch listening to the rain fall and doors open and close upstairs. Levi hadn’t talked to him in days, but Lucas didn’t let it bother him. Things were never going to be the same between them and Lucas had already accepted that.
When the doorbell rang, Lucas glanced over, wondering who it was. He slowly got up, scratching his stomach as he made his way to the door. He hurt everywhere and wished he would have stayed at the arena for a little longer to be rubbed down, but he wanted to come home in case Fallon and Aiden got done early.
When he opened the door to Fallon, a grin broke out across his face. She smiled up at him and Lucas noticed that she was drenched from head to toe. “Hey, get inside,” he said, pulling her
in the door.
“Jeez! It’s raining cats and dogs out there. Were you sleeping? I’m sorry, I should have called first.”
“No, don’t be sorry, I’m glad you are here. Let me take your coat.”
Fallon smiled up at him as she undid the belt of her raincoat. She opened it up slowly, her bottom lip between her teeth as she looked up at him with a seductive look in her eyes. When Lucas looked down and saw that she was only wearing a skimpy black lace bra and matching panties, he swallowed loudly.
“Surprise?” she asked, shrugging her shoulders.
“Holy crap,” he muttered as his eyes ran up and down her beautiful body. When his eyes met hers, he smiled. Lucas then pushed her into the door, trapping her head between his hands as their mouths met. Her body was freezing but Lucas had no doubt that she would be hot in a matter of minutes. He pressed his growing erection into her as his lips dusted her jaw. She let out a soft moan as his lips moved up to hers. “What a surprise,” he whispered against them. She nodded, looking up at him with her eyes full of lust.
“Good surprise?”
Lucas scoffed, “Best damn surprise in the world! Come here.” He moved his mouth against hers, their tongues dancing together as their hands explored each other’s bodies. Lucas ran his hands up Fallon’s bare stomach before cupping her perfect breasts in his hand. The lace of her bra tickled his hands as he played and massaged her heavy breasts. She let out a sharp breath before biting down on his shoulder. Lucas let out his own sharp breath before moving his hands to beneath her thighs and picking her up, slamming her harder into the door as he tried to get closer. He needed her, he craved her and he was going to make love with her against the door. He just prayed Levi didn’t come downstairs.
Fallon’s breathing was out of control as she bit and kissed up his throat to his ear. As she swirled her tongue along his earlobe, he moved his hand in between her thighs and his fingers danced along the black lace of her panties.
“God, you drive me insane,” she gasped arching her back, causing her breasts to be right in his face. Since they were there, he ran his tongue in between them and bit along her collar bone while his fingers still played the wetness between her thighs. She let out a little cry of satisfaction as she began to rock her body against his large hand. His mind was swirling with lust and he needed to be inside her. He couldn’t take much more. Lucas was about to rip off her panties to move inside when her phone started to ring.