Trying to Score (59 page)

“Yup, it wouldn’t be Disneyland if he wasn’t.”

“Awesome!” Aiden said with a giggle.

Aiden turned quickly to look back out the airplane window. He was basically bouncing in his seat with a bright grin on his face. Lucas smiled, running his hand down Aiden’s back lovingly, before looking over at Fallon. She was looking through her phone with his hand resting in her lap, holding hers. She looked classic in her pale orange dress that crossed and weaved into a pretty bow along her back. Her hair was in a low bun and her makeup brought out the honey brown of her eyes. Her lips were glossed and Lucas couldn’t help but notice the small diamond hearts that adorned her ears. As he admired her beauty, he smiled — she was breathtaking.

Lucas’ eyes left her beautiful face down to a pair of long tan legs. He lingered at her knees for a minute or so until he came to where her legs ended at a pair of sexy, yellow high heels. Lucas had to shift a little from the sudden stiffness that left no room in his shorts at the sight of the heels. Ever since that one night against the car, he couldn’t look at a pair of her heels the same way. It was torture. His need to get her naked intensified with every sexy dress, every pair of high heels, every sexy kiss, and basically, anything that had to do with her. He needed her, he wanted her, and waiting around for a moment when Aiden wasn’t within 100 feet of them was honestly killing him.

Lucas shook his head before leaning over and nipping at Fallon’s earlobe. She let out a quiet giggle and then looked over at him with a grin.

Lucas watched as a sad smile replaced her radiant one. Fallon covered it well by looking back down and moving her finger along her phone. Lucas hated that she didn’t get along with her father anymore. She used to be close to him, but Lucas did remember William always trying to run Fallon’s life. So maybe there wasn’t any hope for them. All Lucas could do was hope that he was there for her as much as he could be. He squeezed her hand, placing his chin on her shoulder, watching as she went through page after page. He had no clue what she was reading or doing, but he loved being so close to her.

“Hey nothing! You would rather be on the phone than spend time with me and Aiden,” he said in a huff. He looked over at the back of Aiden’s head. “Right Aiden?”

Aiden only looked back for a second to nod his head before he was looking back out the window. Lucas shook his head. What did he expect from the kid’s first plane ride? Lucas looked over at a wide-eyed Fallon and shrugged his shoulders. “We would like your attention, too.”

Fallon narrowed her eyes, giving him the meanest look as she slowly leaned over, never breaking eye contact, before dropping her phone into her purse. When she sat back, he gave her a cheeky smile as she said, “Happy?”

“Very.”

Lucas slid his hand back into hers and brought it to his lips, kissing the back of her hand. She leaned her head against his and took in a deep breath before letting it back out. Lucas looked down at their hands and took in a calming breath. As he looked down their hands to her skinny wrist, he thought of something and looked back up at her. “Why didn’t you ever get that wrist tattoo you wanted?”

Fallon shrugged her shoulders as she looked down at their hands. “If I do remember correctly, it was supposed to be both of us.”

Lucas smiled as it all came back to him. He would never forget that day.

“
Get some ink.”

Fallon’s body shook with her laughter and it tickled Lucas’ stomach as he gazed down at her. She turned onto her stomach, looking up at Lucas before she slowly placed a strawberry in his mouth. As he chewed, his eyes drifted to where the skirt of her dress was riding up with every move she made. It was so hard to keep his hands off her, he wanted her all the time, and he couldn’t imagine not touching her. It scared him to think that they weren’t going to be attached at the hip after that afternoon. Fallon was starting school, and he was about to start training camp. What was he going to do without her every day?

Fallon shook her head. “My dad would have a fit.”

“
So? He wouldn’t know until you go home and when is that? In three years?”

Fallon giggled. “I do go home for holidays.”

Lucas shrugged his shoulders. “So get it somewhere he won’t see.”

“
No, ‘cause the only place I want a tattoo is on my wrist.”

Lucas smiled as he picked up her hand and started to examine her wrist. “That would be a very sexy place for one.” She giggled as he ran his tongue along her wrist to her pinkie, where he softly bit. “We should get matching ones.”

She laughed as she pulled her hand from his, pushing him onto his back and crawling on top of him. “Isn’t that something you do with your soul mate?”

“
Soul mate? What’s that?” he joked.

She smiled. “You know, that one person, like your momma always says. That person that takes your breath away with one glance, the person you’ll love for the rest of your life, the one that even after 90 years of marriage you still love like you did the very first day. You know, the one.” She gave him a shy smile and then snuggled her face into his neck, giggling.

Lucas smiled, taking in a deep breath as he ran his hands down her back onto the back of her thighs. He had fallen hard for this girl, and he knew he was going to love her for the rest of his life. No one understood him the way she did. No one could make him laugh the way she could. No one could make him feel safe like she did. She was his person, his one.

“
You are my one,” he whispered.

She slowly raised her head and looked down at him with the biggest, brightest set of caramel eyes he had ever seen. He had never loved the color of someone’s eyes until Fallon. She was beyond beautiful, and she was all his. “How do you know?”

“
Because I do”

Fallon’s eyes filled with tears as she glanced down at him. “Is that right?” she said, bringing her hands up to his face and cupping lightly.

“
Oh yeah it’s right, my little country girl. You are mine for forever.”

Fallon gave him a small smile before pressing her lips to his. He kissed her with everything inside him, holding her close to him as he devoured her mouth. He hoped they didn’t get kicked out of the park for public display but then again, he didn’t care. Something else to tell the grandkids, he thought as he moved his hands up from her thighs to the middle of her back.

When they parted she grinned down at him and said, “You still love me?”

He laughed. It had been a week since they first told each other they loved each other, and for some reason, she was having a hard time believing him. To reassure her, he said, “Of course I do.”

“
I love you too,” she gushed, running her nose along his. “So when we are totally devoted to each other and married with many little babies around us, we’ll go get matching wrist tattoos, okay?”

He nodded as he gazed lovingly up in her eyes. “Totally devoted?”

“
Yup, totally devoted.”

“
Who says I’m not totally devoted now?”

Fallon giggled. “You very well may be, but we are not married and there are no babies around us.”

Lucas gave her a naughty grin before he smacked her ass playfully, pressing his hard-on into her cushion of softness. “Wanna start practicing for those babies?”

Fallon laughed. “You were a total horn dog back then.”

Lucas looked over at her, confused. “I’m not anymore? Man, I’m going to have to step up my game.”

Fallon continued to laugh and Lucas joined in, leaning against her as their bodies shook with laughter. When they calmed down, he brought her wrist up to his lips, kissing it lightly as he looked into her eyes. “Totally devoted?”

Lucas’ heart broke a little, but he could tell she wanted to be there with him by the way she was gazing into his eyes. “You may not be now, but I think you are almost there.”

Fallon nodded. “I’m trying.”

“That’s all I can ask for.”

Fallon leaned her head against his, placing a sweet soft kissed against his lips. As they parted he ran his nose along hers before reconnecting their lips. Lucas slid his hand along Fallon’s legs, pulling her closer for more, but she stopped him with a giggle as she pulled back.

“What?”

She shook her head, moving away from him. She crossed her legs and fixed her skirt before saying, “Not only are we on a plane, Aiden is right next to you.”

Lucas shrugged his shoulders. “We are at the back, and Aiden isn’t even paying attention.”

Aiden chose that moment to turn and looked up at them with wide eyes. “Are we almost there? I’m bored.”

Lucas let out a groan as Fallon giggled, pulling Aiden across Lucas into her lap. As Lucas watched them play a game on Fallon’s phone, his control was snapping.

When the hell were they going to get naked again!?

Watching Aiden’s face at Disneyland brought Fallon to tears. She cried the whole time and she knew that both Lucas and Aiden thought she was crazy, but she didn’t care. It was true; Disneyland was the most magical place on earth! The day went too quickly for Fallon and she wished they could have done it over. Aiden was in heaven and Fallon could honestly say that Lucas was too. She wasn’t sure if her favorite part of the day was watching Aiden meet Mickey for the first time or if it was when she and Lucas kissed beneath Sleeping Beauty’s castle. Both times were magical and she would remember them for the rest of her life.

They all slept like rocks that night, and the next morning she made a humongous breakfast before they all went out for a day of shopping. It surprised her how Aiden didn’t complain much, but she knew it was because Lucas kept him occupied. Apparently Lucas had promised Aiden that he would take him to the kids’ Billabong, and they had spent most of the afternoon there. Aiden left with so many bags, Fallon knew Lucas wasn’t going to be able to get them in the car — especially after her trip to Kate Spade — but he had somehow.

The next day, Fallon sat on her bright pink beach towel in her amazing Betsy Johnson black and white lace bikini. She had to have it when she saw it while shopping for Audrey. There was something about the lace, and pretty little pink flowers, that screamed her name. Fallon was ready to break her budget when she tried it on — it fit her body perfectly — but Lucas was basically drooling and demanded to buy it. Even though she told him no, he bought it anyways and she figured she would wear it for him today.

As she watched Lucas and Aiden run through the ocean, she soaked in the fantastic California sun. There was something about California that could bring a smile to even the saddest person. She loved the sound of the ocean, the smell of the air, and basically everything about it. Or maybe the reason she loved California so much was because it was the place where she first fell in love. When Lucas brought up that day at the park, Fallon couldn’t seem to catch her breath. She could recall everything about that day. The taste of the strawberries that he had insisted on dusting with sugar and the way the sun was so hot since it was the last day of the summer. She had been beyond in love with Lucas and was like she said, totally devoted. He had been her everything.

As she watched him now, she couldn’t help but feel that way again. How it happened was beyond her, but like anything else between them, it was bound to happen. Fallon watched as Lucas picked Aiden up and threw him in the ocean. Her body jerked with the worry of Aiden messing up his cast but Lucas assured her that he had sealed it well with the plastic bags. Fallon had to trust him so she sat back, breathing in through her nose and out through her mouth.

When Fallon’s phone rang, she took it as a sign from God to answer since she was ready to freak out with worry over Aiden. She sat up, picking up her phone to see it was Elli.

“Elli Adler! I’ve been waiting to hear from you,” Fallon gushed. She had been sitting on pins and needles waiting for the proofs from the campaign. Elli had said she would have them to her as soon as possible, but it had been three days and Fallon was freaking out.

Like always.

Elli’s laughter rang over the line and Fallon smiled. “Fallon Parker, it is mighty hard to edit pictures, be pregnant, take care of a nine month old AND run a hockey club. Just saying.”

Fallon laughed. “I’m just pickin’, are you done?”

Elli laughed again. “Of course I am, that’s why I’m calling you. Janet is sending you the 10 proofs. I am really happy with these and I’m sure you will be too. After you love them, send them to get printed.”

“Awesome, can’t wait to see them! Are they good?”

Elli let out a breathy sigh. “They are exquisite. I swear Fallon, y’all are flippin’ gorgeous together. I was actually getting turned on watching y’all make out!”

Fallon giggled as her body warmed from head to toe. It had been a long couple of weeks of not having Lucas inside her, or on top of her, or anything with her. She was beyond ready, and they needed to find time to do that.