Lucas nonchalantly got to his feet at Brooke's words. "I'm guessing I'm here for the same reason you are?" He asked with a raise of his eyebrows.

Brooke narrowed her eyes and crinkled her brows together as she placed her brief case on the conference room table. "Wait a minute, what's your last name?"

"Scott" Lucas replied as he stuck his hand out for her to shake.

Brooke hesitantly shook his hand. "As in Scott Motors Scott?"

"The one and only…" He quipped with a smile. "Well, one of the two and only. My brother Nathan is the other half of Scott Motors."

Sensing the beating of heart was becoming rather rapid, Brooke turned to retreat out of the room. "Will you excuse me for a minute Mr. Scott?"

Lucas reached out to touch her arm softly before she could walk out the door. "If I'm going to do business with you, it's Lucas, not Mr. Scott." He watched as she only nodded her head in return.

Jay, watching this interaction between the two curiously, quickly got out of his seat as he watched Brooke's figure disappear from view. "I'm sorry Mr. Scott, you know how women can be sometimes." He said as he offered the man next to him an apologetic smile.

Lucas turned to Jay Connor with a thoughtful look on his face. "I guess you're right."

Brooke dabbed a wet towel to her flushed face. Never in a million years did she think she'd meet him again. "Okay Brooke, you can do this. He's just some guy you met at a club. You didn't know he was taken." She said to her reflection in the mirror. As she padded her face off with a dry towel, she took another second to straighten out her attire.

Making her way back to the conference room, she took a deep breath before walking back through the door. "Gentlemen, I apologize for that, there was just something I had to take care of." She said as she took a seat across from Jay.

Lucas looked at her with an amused expression on his face. "It's not a problem at all Brooke." He liked the sound of her name rolling off his lips.

Brooke just raised an eyebrow at him. "Well, let's get down to business shall we." Always the professional she was.

It had taken an hour to get the contract to where Scott Motors wanted it to be and by the end of the evening, Davis & Connor, Inc. had themselves a new client.

Brooke was gathering her things together as Jay and Lucas were saying goodbye to one another. Not wanting to interrupt their conversation, and wanting to get out of there as soon as possible, she waved her farewell and immediately made her exit.

Just as she was pulling her keys out to unlock her door she heard a voice calling for her, thinking it was Jay she turned with a ready smile on her face.

Lucas watched as her smile quickly disappeared and was replaced by a scowl. "Brooke, we didn't get a chance to talk in there, you ran out so quickly." He said as he approached her smile.

"Look, Lucas, there's really not much for us to talk about. We'll be doing business together and I would like to keep this strictly professional." She said as she placed a hand to her forehead, the inkling of a headache coming on.

Lucas stuffed his hands into his pant pockets, not really knowing how to approach this conversation with her. "Brooke, I just wanted to clarify what happened when we first met. At the club, it looked like you were going to accept my offer for a drink, but you left so quickly. That girl…" He was stopped by Brooke's hand coming up.

"I'm sorry, I don't know what I was thinking that night. Had I known you already had a girlfriend, I wouldn't have even danced with you. I'm not that type of a person." She started.

"But Brooke, what I was trying to tell you was…" Once again she cut him off.

"Listen Lucas, nothing against you, but I would really like to keep it professional between us. I hope you understand." She opened the door to her car and offered him a fleeting smile. "Have a good flight back to Tree Hill. We'll be in contact about the PR plans for your company." She said as she buckled herself in and drove off.

Lucas watched the car pull away, and could only sigh. "I was trying to tell you she wasn't my girlfriend Brooke, but my sister-in-law." He said to no one in particular as he made his way to his own car shaking his head.

The next day Brooke was on her way to work after a fitful night of sleep. She walked into her office and made a bee line to her coffee pot, but as she turned to take a seat behind her desk she found a huge bouquet of roses placed in the middle.

Gasping in surprise, she wondered how she had missed it upon entering the office. Smiling, she walked over to the flowers and inhaled its fragrance as she closed her eyes. Pulling the card she found, her smile quickly turned into a frown.

Here's to the beginning of a fruitful and satisfying relationship. Lucas Scott.

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Author's Note: So, I just found out Chad and Sophia called it quits, and it's making it hard for me to find motivation to continue writing any more stories about Brucas. But, that's why they call it fiction. If you guys still want me to continue on, please review and let me know your thoughts. Thanks!