Secured Sevenfold

Matt’s POV
I had send Johnny a text a few minutes ago to ask him to come into my office for a minute and I just saw him heading in.
“What did you need me here for?” Johnny came right to the point.
“Oh, nothing much, I just wanted to check up to you, I feel like I’m losing grip on the ongoing things a little, so I thought I start with you”
“Ah alright, you get that with women in the house, you lose focus” Johnny chuckled “Where is Joe anyway?”
I snapped my head up at him, what did he know? Did he suspect something? I looked closely at Johnny, but he didn’t seem to have an ulterior motive with it, he was just interested. Keep your calm, Sanders.
“She is doing laps at the pool, guess she will be here soon.” I replied quickly, leaning back in my chair, waiting for Johnny to start talking so I could get to the follow up questions, the questions I really wanted to ask.

“Right, okay, update; the Ferreira house is done, they are quite satisfied and are maybe planning to get additional services from us. Ben Carter asked me to make a..”
I listened to Johnny doing the update on all his jobs, but I wasn’t really hearing what he said. As soon as I had the feeling I could interrupt his report I did.
“Good, Good, and what about anything else? Is there anything else I need to know about? I know you see a lot…”
“What do you mean? Like developments in the market or something?”
“No, I have Arin for that. What about everything going on in the house, anything that got your attention?”
Johnny shrugged and shook his head “Nah, nothing out of the ordinary. At first I thought the whole women in the house thing would mess things up, but they are adjusting good”
Ha! Just the opening I needed.
“Yeah, I know… I mean I’m keeping my eye on Joe of course, but don’t really know what’s going on with Jacky…”
“Shouldn’t you ask Brian?”
“I did, but somehow I think he isn’t sharing everything”
“I’m sorry Matt, I can’t help you” he looked at his watch “Are we done? I have an appointment in 10 minutes and need an at least 15 minute drive. Be prepared for the speeding ticket” he chuckled as he left my office.

Alright, I had to realize that either Johnny knew nothing about what was actually going on here… or he was hiding it well.
I was thinking of asking Zack, he was the closest to Brian, but that was the problem in that as well, he was more than loyal to him.
So even if he knew, what was going on he would rather not say anything to get his best friend in trouble.
So, that would only leave one to ask, I knew he was close to Jacky, so he might know something… but was he as loyal to Jacky, as Zack was to Brian?
Let’s find out.
I put a my finger on the connection button to Arin’s headset.
“Matt? Can I do something?” Arin voice sounded immediately after picking up.
“Yeah, can you come over to my office, for a second… alone? Thanks.” I hung up and waited, not even 2 minutes later the door to my office was pushed open and silently Arin walked in.
He looked around with a careful look on his face.
“Come on in, and have a seat.” I motioned him over to my desk and he nodded.
“Did I do something? I mean is this still about the drunken night, I’m really sorry for sleeping in your bed, and the things I might have said I really didn’t meant to-” Arin blabbed on and on and I held my hand up making him stop midsentence.
“It has nothing to do with that… don’t worry. And no you didn’t do anything wrong… that I know of at least… I just have a question for you.” I said and narrowed my eyes a little making Arin squirm in his seat.
“And that would be… what?” Arin asked uncomfortable.
“I just want you to tell me if you noticed anything strange going on around here, Arin. I mean you my eyes and ears when I’m not around… so give me an update.” I tried to sound casual.
“Well, the business at the Ferraira house-” Arin started but I shook my head. “That’s not what I mean… I’m talking about the house… about what’s going on here… not business.” I clarified and Arin looked a little green, he never was good at lying and especially not lying to me.
“Tell me, Arin.” I stared him down.
“I..I don’t know.. what you mean.” Arin stuttered.
“Arin.. I can trust you, right? I mean not only in business things, but also a one of my best friends, right?”
Arin nodded and looked guilty.
“Tell me, what you know… please as my friend.” I knew I was playing the friendship and trust card, but this seemed to be the only way.
“What.. do.. what exactly do you mean..” Arin tried again to wiggle around the main subject, he was really loyal to Jacky as it seemed.
“Tell me about Jacky… and Brian.” Arin’s eyes widened and that was proof enough for me.
“I.. what should I tell…” Arin stuttered again.
“Arin, honestly… my friend, tell me. I promise, that you are not to blame… just tell me the truth. What do you know.” I asked again and he sighed.
“They… I.. they are well.. yeah… together.” Arin finally admitted looking down on the floor.
“I KNEW IT! THAT ASSHOLE!” I yelled standing up from my chair. “He is fucking my client.. our client! He is breaking my rules, and he didn’t even talk to me… since when do you know?” I looked back at Arin who squirmed even more in his seat “A couple of…”
“Days?” I asked.
“Weeks” Arin added.
“Fucking hell! Thanks, Arin… you can go… I will make him admit… I will…I have a plan. Don’t talk to anyone about this” I dismissed Arin with a wave of my hand trying to think of the perfect plan to finally make my so called best friend admit.

Joe’s POV
I knew Matt wanted to finally have the talk with Brian about the thing he had going on with my sister, I think Matt still doesn’t believe that Brian and Jacky are more than sex.
But I have seen them together more often now, and had my eyes on them and knew that this was more to my sister and Brian also reacted towards her as if this was more than just to a fling…
I just didn’t know how Matt wanted to find out…
His first step was asking around his friends in the house about who knew… I didn’t really know if he was succeeding in finding out, because I didn’t know if any of the others knew…

I walked from the kitchen to the living room and peeked into Matt’s office, seeing Arin come outside with a strange look on his face.
I frowned, what does this mean?
Next followed Matt, he saw me and looked around the room, what was he searching for.
“I will make them admit… They don’t know I know…” He told me with a mischievous tone in his voice and walked past me, and then I saw him walking over to my sister.
She sat on the couch alone, flipping through the channels, her feet propped up on the couch table, making her skirt ride high, couldn’t she wearing something normal, just one day?

I walked back to the kitchen, busying myself with fixing me a sandwich but never let my eyes wander away from Matt and Jacky.
What was he doing now?
“Hey Jacky… all alone?” Matt asked, his voice deep and silky. What the hell?
“Hey” She looked up to him and then back to the TV not really caring.
“Did you plan anything for today?” He asked sitting down really close to her, she looked at him again and smiled.
“Not much, maybe going outside for a bit, the sun is nice today… why?” Jacky frowned at Matt who laid his arm around the back of the couch, his hand beginning to play with her hair.
“Maybe I could join you?” Matt asked and my eye began to twitch.. what the fuck was he doing there?
With my sister?
My man?!
“Well.. this is a free country right… so if you like…” Jacky shrugged, pulling her hair away from Matt’s fingers.
“Maybe you could help me with the sun cream, and I help you?” Matt suggested winking at her and my heart was about to skip a beat.
“Sure… why not.” Jacky glanced at Matt from the side, still wearing a frown, apparently not really sure what to think of all this.

“So, how about we start now?” Matt asked stood up and pulled his shirt over his head, I couldn’t believe my eyes, my mouth hanging open.
Did he really?
Does he really think that…
“Matt, what are you-” Jacky’s voice ended, when I saw her taking in Matt’s upper body and my blood began to boil.
I knew from up and close, that Matt had a body to beg for and I knew my sister had checked him out at the pool too and I couldn’t even be mad about it, I mean… who wouldn’t look at that perfectly sculptured body, but right now… I didn’t like the look on her face… and I didn’t like Matt offering anything to her, even though in the back of my head the little voice was yelling at me that it was just a show, and Matt would never… ever in his life betray me with my sister, but right now, the jealousy in my body was overriding the rational part in my brain.
“He can’t be serious-” I muttered and wanted to go between it, but was frozen in place when I heard Matt’s voice again.
“And Jacky, can you help me out?” Matt asked sitting back down next to Jacky, really close, I knew their thighs must be touching.
“Well.. help you out? What do you mean with that exactly? I’m not really sure if we are talking about the same thing here, Matt…” Jacky lifted an eyebrow at him, she was still staring at him but thank god didn’t make a move, or I would have to claw my own sisters eyes out.
“Whatever you want it to mean…” Matt continued his voice dipping down to that sexy silky tone again, and I hated him using that on her.
Jacky slowly shook her head, looking at Matt with a smirk.. “I don’t think you want to know what I would think it means…”
“Jacky?” I heard Brian’s voice coming from the corridor and the game Matt was playing was nice, but he didn’t get the job done on my sister to admit anything, so I will finish his job now, and will kill two birds with one stone and make Matt taste his on freaking medicine, see how he likes it.
I breathed deeply in and out, opened the top two buttons on my blouse to show some cleavage and waited for Brian to appear in the kitchen hallway…
Let the show begin…

Brian’s POV
Jacky was nowhere to be found, I called for her, but didn’t really get an answer. I walk towards the living room and saw Jacky sitting on the couch. I got a smile on my face, but that faltered as soon as I saw Matt sitting next to her. Too close, too naked without his shirt and that voice, he only used that one on the women he wanted to get into bed. What the hell was going on?
I felt my anger rising and knew I would punch his nose if I got in there, I needed to cool down a little first, so I made a detour to the kitchen.
“Hey Brian” Joe leaned against the kitchen counter, taking a bite from a sandwich, batting her lashes at me. She looked more like Jacky when she was more lose and got rid of the businesswoman attitude.
“Hey” I replied while sitting down at the table. From this angle I could still see Jacky and Matt in the livingroom. I trusted her, but I didn’t get it, Matt made his own rules, why the hell would he hit on Jacky?
I was startled by a hand on my arm, a soft touch, going up and down.

“Brian? Can I ask you something?”
I looked at Joe and my eyes went wide, I could totally look right into her blouse and see the top of her breasts… Damn….
“Hmmm, sure”
“Well, I was thinking, seeing I don’t really have a boyfriend anymore, and I have my needs too. I thought I could maybe use a one night stand. And for some reason, I thought you might be able to help me with that”
Her voice was seductive now, her fingers still moving over my arm, tracing my tattoos. I looked up to the livingroom and saw both Jacky and Matt staring at Joe and me and I pushed away her hand
“I don’t know what you are talking about”
I stared at Jacky, hoping she would understand I wasn’t the one coming on to her sister, but the other way around. I needed her to understand that, but I couldn’t do much, Matt was shooting daggers at me and I guess this was already falling under rule number 1.
Ironic, I worked so hard to try and hide something and now I would get caught for something that wasn’t even true?

Jacky got up and walked for the kitchen, getting something to drink out of the fridge.
“What are you two doing?”
“Nothing much” Joe replied quickly. She could say all that she wanted, but her hand moving over my leg underneath the table did something completely different. She leaned over to me and whispered in my ear “Come on Brian, no one needs to know”. She let her tongue move over my ear quickly and I felt her hand closing in on her target.
I couldn’t take it anymore, I pushed back my chair and got up. Jacky was already heading out, her back stiff and I could see from her posture that she was angry with me. I looked at Joe, who looked at me expectantly and then at Matt, who stood in the door, his arms crossed over his chest.
I didn’t have a choice and to be frank, I didn’t even care.

“Stop! Stop! I can’t do anything with you. I won’t! I’m in love with someone else! I love Jacky!”

Notes

I gotta admit... I love this Chapter :D
Another brilliant idea from my lovely co-author :)

So what do you say about this?!
Matt's plan, didnt work out.. at first... Joe made it work ;)

Brian saying the big words?!

How will everyone reacttttt?????? :O