A/N~ Update on me: First off I want to thank everyone for all their well wishes and prayers for my hand and for my tests last week. After being shocked and poked it was confirmed that I have severe Carpal Tunnel. Due to high risks I can not have the surgery so they injected my wrist and hand and so far it has been feeling much better. I am hoping and praying the shot will last for a while.

Lester's Pov

My door shut with a soft click as Bobby left the apartment. I knew that he now knew I had developed feelings for Eden and that I'd been lying to him, a talk was in order with him but right now my mind was set on a talk with Eden. I looked down at her and saw she was anxious, she knew with us being alone there was nothing to stop us from talking. She clasped her hands in her lap and I swear I could hear her heart pounding in her chest.

"Hey" I said softly as I pulled her face up to meet mine. Her beautiful brown eyes were so wide as she stared at me.

"I just love how the gold flecks in your eyes shine when the light hits them" I told her. Eden closed her eyes and pulled away. I wished she wasn't so uncomfortable with attention that was given to her. If she was as good in her job as she says she is, I would think she would be shown a lot of attention by others, but I guess business attention is different than personal.

"Eden before you got sick with your headache; I was going to talk to you about what happened earlier today. Last night I kissed you and showed you how I felt about you and you agreed that you would allow me to kiss you again, but something changed this morning. I thought it was because of the meeting we'd missed, but it wasn't was it? I asked her

"Eden?" I asked watching as she got up from the couch and walked into my kitchen "It wasn't was it and it led you to say what you said about us not working?"

Eden rubbed her temples with her fingers, I knew she wasn't fully well, but we needed to have this conversation. We only had a few days until Ranger would make his decision and then Eden would be on the first plane back to California. I got up from the couch, walked up behind her, and draped my arms around her waist.

"Eden please just tell me what it is, you're safe here. You told me about your past, please let your guard down and let me in"

Eden slumped against me and sighed. I knew it was exhausting to keep so much bottled inside. I realize I have no room to make her talk with me about secrets when we keep ours buried, but I really wanted her in my life and knew we needed to be open with each other.

"I woke up this morning and saw you" she said

"Ok"

"You're so perfect and I'm not" she said and I spun her around in my arms

"Eden I am not perfect"

"In body you are" she whispered looking down to the floor

"Oh Eden" I said hugging her to me "I don't care about all of that, I like all of you"

"Yea you say that now, but what happens when the time comes when we are intimate, then what?" she asked looking up at me with tears running down her cheeks "I know I'm fat, no one has to tell me so, I see myself in the mirror every day. Why me when you can have any woman you want?"

"Because I am attracted to you" I told her

"But"

"No buts, I really am and I want in the entire world for you to believe me. I will never hurt you, I want to show you, I want to love on you the way you should always be, please Eden lower your walls for the rest of your stay here and let me woo you and show you things you haven't been apart of before" I pleaded with her. Eden searched my eyes looking for the answers or searching to see if I was telling her the truth.

"You deserve to be loved" I told her holding her face in my hands "Please?"

Eden nodded her head and I placed my mouth to hers. After our long heated kiss, Eden pulled back, her cheeks flushed to a soft pink.

"I think I should go" she said

"Stay with me tonight, I made some food"

"Thank you" she breathed out when my mouth went to her neck "But I still don't think I can eat and I just really want to go to the house to lie down"

"You could lay with me"

"Lester, I'd like to be alone, it's been a long rough day"

"We're ok?"

"We're ok" she smiled up at me

I walked Eden down to the garage and over to the car she was using. I pulled her to me and kissed her again. She may never remember or admit that she told me that she liked my kisses, but I knew and was going to take every advantage I could to kiss her. I made sure she was ok to drive back to the house after I begged her to reconsider the offer to stay with me, but she told me no again and got into the truck. I watched her clear the gate and turn the corner, when I couldn't see her anymore I turned on my heels and made my way up to Bobby's to clear the air between us.

I found him at his desk in the corner of his exam room. He was hunched over an open file writing what I figured was things that he had done to the certain person the file belonged too. I pulled up a chair and sat backwards straddling the seat.

"Stephanie?" I asked of the thick folder

"You know all files are confidential"

"Yea, but you said earlier you were just with her so I just figured it was hers"

"What do you want Santos?" he asked closing the file

"Eden" I said

"Is she worse or want the shot?"

"No she went back to the safe house that she has been staying in. I want to talk to you about her"

"Nothing to talk about" he said standing up, grabbing the file off his desk, and taking it over to the bank of filing cabinets he had.

"I know what you saw when you were in my apartment" I told him

"What I've been seeing and I know you have been lying to be from the start"

"No not from the start" I told him

"You said you hated her and that you were going to have her think you liked her so you could use that to win the competition"

"That was true at the time" I said and Brown scoffed "It was I hated that she waltzed in here and announced all the things she had been working on and disrupting my house. There was nothing more that I wanted to do then send her packing back to California with her tail between her legs. I wanted her to never forget the name Lester Santos, she was the enemy and I was going to squash her and I wanted her to remember who did it. We're mercenaries its what we do"

"So what did you do?" Brown asked. If he believed me then he would know I had done something to set my plans into motion, but I didn't want to divulge the fact that I sent the feeds from the house to my personal computer so I could spy on Eden. Now that I've grown to like her I regret doing so even if my intentions on it were good to me.

"That's not important now. What is important is I like her and I'm sorry I lied to you"

"Even if she isn't the typical Santos babe that we all have seen you go for and bring home, I still would have supported you and had a chance to come to like her too"

"Yea" I said nodding my head "This is all new to me and Eden, my God if you knew her story you would want to kill everyone that ever looked at her wrong"

"That bad?" he asked

"I want to hold her and protect her against everything. I also want to show her everything man"

"Whoa. Lester Santos ladies man sounds serious about a woman" he said sitting back behind his desk "Should I call Cal and let him know we're down a man for the clubs?"

"Man you just don't know" I told him

I began telling him Eden's story. When I told him certain parts I would see his jaw muscles flex and un-flex. I knew if he or anyone here knew Eden and her past they would feel exactly the way I do about her.

"And it made me think of how many women that I passed by in the clubs because they weren't the perfect one to score with that night. How many have tried and went home feeling bad about themselves because of me?"

"Wow"

As I was about to say something else a large boom sounded and shook the whole building. Bobby looked up at the ceiling and shrugged his shoulders.

"Sounds like a storms rolling in" he said and I felt a sinking feeling in my gut.

"SHIT" I said jumping up from my chair

"What wrong, it's just a storm" Bobby asked as another round of thunder sounded

"Its Eden" I said running for the door "I gotta go to her"

"Need me to come?" he asked

"Nah I got this" I told him running down the hall making my way to the garage. I just put the key in the lock of one of the fleet trucks when my phone rang.

"Eden's still at your place with you right and she's ok?" Steph asked

"No she went to the house, sorry Beautiful I cant talk" I said hanging up on her. I'll apologize later for being so rude, but right now I needed to get to Eden.