Secured Sevenfold

Matt´s POV
“You love me?” Jacky slowly turned around to Brian, her eyes wide open, her voice soft. Brian moved away from Joe and didn’t even give me a second glace before he closed the distance between him and Jacky, pulling her in his arms.
“Yes, I’m in love with you. I love you” Jacky smiled widely and Brian kissed her.

Oh now everything was fucking okay all of a sudden, now I should just accept that he broke my rules? The hell I’m not.
“Yeah, yeah, you guys break my heart. Brian, my office.” Brian looked at me annoyed.
“You can’t be fucking serious” His eyes turning dark in anger.
“You don’t even know how much. I’m not doing this with you here. MY OFFICE! NOW!”
Jacky grabbed Brian’s hand even tighter and wanted to follow him as he passed me through the door. I put my hand on her arm and held her back.
“Not you. This is something between him and me.” My voice was low and I could see in her face that she heard the authority in it. I didn’t like using that Alpha male voice as Johnny once called it, but I wasn’t afraid to let it work for me if I had to.
Brian hugged her close one more time and looked intently in her eyes.
“Go wait for me upstairs, I will be right there” He shortly pecked her lips, watched her walk up the stairs, straightened his back and walked into my office.
I turned around to walk after him, when I heard a huff coming from the kitchen, I turned around, meeting the furious eyes of Joe.
“I’m not done with you either! I will talk to you after I talked to Brian”
“Bring it on!” Joe replied, crossing her arms over her chest.

Is she fucking kidding me!? I didn’t need this shit now, I didn’t need her drama and defiant behavior. My blood was already boiling, but was close to erupting right now.
“ARGH!” I turned around, stormed into my office, throwing the door shut.
Brian was sitting in the chair opposite of my desk, leaning back, completely relaxed. I sat down in my chair and looked at him. He looked at me directly, not a care in the world showing on his face. I let the silence fall between us and thought about what I was about to say, when Brian spoke up.
“So, if you are going to scream at me, do it now and let’s get this over with, I want to see my girlfriend”
His calm angered me even more, even though there was a little voice screaming for attention in the back of my head, but I couldn’t, I couldn’t let that voice get passed the anger.

“YOUR GIRLFRIEND?! What the hell, Brian? Why is there always something with you? Why can’t you just live by the rules for a change? I’m always checking up after you, I always have to be on my toes to not be made a fool of by you. There is ALWAYS SOMETHING!”
Brian looked at me straight, took a breath and spoke calmly.
“You know that is not true, Matt. I’m good at my job, I always do as you tell me and I always handle in good conscience. You confide in me and we make decisions together, so don’t treat me like a teenager in puberty, because I’m not and you know it.”
I clenched my hands around the arm rests of my chair, I know he was right, but anger was consuming me. I closed my eyes for a second and sighed.

“Okay, what is going on between you and Jacky?” Brian opened his mouth to answer me “I want the full answer Brian, no beating about the bush anymore”
“What do you want to know? I’ve fallen for her, I wasn’t kidding, I love her”
“Ah please…. You don’t love women, you don’t do girlfriends. You just want to fuck her” I huffed
“Geez, thanks Matt” He sounded hurt, I turned my gaze to him again, really looking at him this time. He wasn’t playing, he was serious. Could Joe really be right?
“Okay, that might have been a little harsh, but can you blame me? You haven’t had a relationship in 5 or 6 years, and now you are hooking up with one of the clients and you tell me “she is the one”? I mean, I don’t know what to believe Brian. If this was so important to you, why didn’t you tell me?”
To be honest, this was the thing that was bothering me most. Why couldn’t he confide in me if this was so important to him?

“Weird huh? The moment you find out you don’t ask me about it, but you go hitting on the girl. The moment I do let you know…. Doesn’t really matter how it got out…. You decide to yell at me, not even giving me a moment with Jacky, despite I just told her I love her. You didn’t deserve to be told Matt, I knew you would react like this”
Damn, I would rather have him punch me than saying all of this. Shit, was I really that bad?!
“I’m sorry.”
“I know, it doesn’t matter, you try to run the business as best as you can, but you make mistakes too Matt, don’t act like you are better than all of us”
“I…” I opened my mouth to tell Brian everything, he was right, I did make mistakes, I might be even worse.
“Are you and Jacky serious?”
Brian nodded “Yes, I’m crazy about her. It started out as just sex, mindblowing sex” he smirked and I had to return the smirk.
“But she got to me, I’ve gotten to know her. That day on the beach?” I nodded
“Yeah, well, it was our first real date, I asked her to be exclusive with me, to be her only one, just as she is the only one for me. The drunk night, it was the first night in weeks I didn’t sleep in one bed with her, and I missed her like crazy. That must be love right?!” Brian blushed heavily now as he looked at me.

He was right, I hadn’t seen him like this in forever and he looked happy, though uncomfortable. We were men, we normally weren’t this heavy on talking about our feelings.
“Damn man, don’t go all girly on me now” I joked, earning a laugh from Brian.
“Let me get all male now then, especially for you. If we are done here, I’m going to fuck my girlfriend senseless now” he smirked, getting up from his chair. I laughed loudly, happy to break the awkwardness between us.
“Don’t let it get in the way, Brian, that’s the only thing I ask of you”
“I won’t, she might be a keeper.”
“Are we good?”
“Yeah, of course” Brian smiled and headed for the door.
“Brian?” He turned around, his hand on the doorknob “I’m happy for you, good catch, man”
He nodded with a smile and headed out.

I looked after him until Joe came into view, her face mad, her strut angry. I got up and wanted to walk around my desk to meet her halfway, but she closed the door and held up her hand.
“Don’t you dare come close to me!”

Brian’s POV
I nearly ran the way up the stairs until I realized, that now the even harder time would begin. Now I really had to explain my words, look Jacky in the eye and tell her again, just what I was feeling, are my hands getting sweaty?
Fuck, why was my heart beating even faster now…
And why didn’t I remember just one word from the things I said to Matt, I could use them again…

When I stood in the corridor I saw Jacky pacing before my and her door, she didn’t see me approach and I took a closer look at her.
Her beautiful face, looking worried… worried for me.
“Babe?” I said softly and her head snapped up, her eyes widened and she quickly closed the distance between us.
“Are you okay? Is everything okay? You are not fired because of me, or?” Jacky rushed out and I chuckled.
“I’m good… Matt and I wouldn’t have been friends for so long if one little argument would have ended our friendship. And he can’t freaking fire me… it’s a family business you can’t kick your own brother out.” I smirked at her and felt Jacky sigh in relief.
“But I think we have more important things to talk about now, right?” I asked softly and felt her small nod against my chest.
“Come on.” I grabbed her hand in mine and pulled her along with me to her room.
I opened the door and led her inside, placed her on the bed beside me and breathed deeply in and out…
How to begin… what to explain… weren’t these three words self explaining enough!?

“You really meant what you said, Brian?” Jacky voice roused me from my thoughts.
“What? That Matt had to be kidding me, yeah…” I tried to make a joke but that wasn’t the time as I could see on Jacky’s face.
“Listen Jacky, I didn’t want to be the one to say them first… I had them in my head… for a while… I just hoped that you… doesn’t matter now anymore…” I shook my head, why was this so hard now.
“I love you, too.” Jacky said suddenly and I looked at her astonished.
“You don’t have to say them, because I said them… I mean…” Jacky held her finger in front of my lips silencing me.
“Since our first real date, I just wanted you to catch me, be the one to hold me… damn Brian… each passing day I think my feelings were becoming stronger and I realized.. that I do love you.” She took her finger away from my mouth and I grabbed her cheeks between my hands, pulling her face to me, kissing her lips gently.
“That’s exactly what I wanted to say, but couldn’t put it to words, god.. woman..” I kissed her, let her feel my love… the love that I knew would just become more and more.

“And what did Matt say about us… being together?” Jacky asked after pulling away from our kiss.
“He wasn’t pleased about me breaking his rules, but I told him the truth, told him that this wasn’t just fun for us anymore… that its more… and he is okay… I just have to stay focused. Even though the staying focused isn’t always so easy with you around.” I smirked and let my eyes wander down her long legs, only covered by the thin material of a so called skirt.
“I will behave… sometimes.” Jacky winked at me.
“Do you know what this means now?” I asked, just realizing myself.
“What?” Jacky frowned, I pulled her hand in mine, covering it.
“We are free now, no hiding anymore. You and me for everyone to see, I can kiss you, touch you and have you… everywhere I want.” I grinned and Jacky lifted an eyebrow at me.
“I think I have a word to say in this as well…” I nodded “Sure, you can decide where first, the pool? Indoor or outdoor? Sauna? Another training session?”
Jacky laughed loudly “I thought this wasn’t just about sex, you just told me you loved me and then the only thing you think about is sex?”
“I gotta get the wuss image off me, and what better way to get rid of it then banging my girl everywhere possible?”

Jacky shook her head at me but still a smile on her face “Just remember one more thing, Brian?”
“What?” I asked and leaned down, beginning to nuzzle her throat, inhaling her scent.
“If I ever see another woman as close to you as my sister was just a little while ago and you not doing anything about it, I will freaking rip your balls off.” Jacky stated in a serious tone.
“Wait, what?” I held my hands up in a defensive move.
“I did nothing… I was innocent. But seeing you with my half naked best friend on the couch and you checking him out, wasn’t the best image in my head either, can you enlighten me by the way what that was about?”
Jacky chuckled and shook her head “I have no idea… I think that was flirting on his part, but not on mine of course.”
“Yeah, how about we forget about that… if I ever can and we will think about just you and me… and share some of that love we have spoken about earlier?” I smiled and Jacky nodded
“That sounds wonderful.” I leaned forward and put my lips on Jacky’s gently, letting them move against each other in a sensual move and knowing it was right, I do love her more than anyone before.

Notes

Soooo.... how did you like the man to man talk between Brian and Matt?!

And Awwwnnn are Jacky and Brian cute or what?! :P

But Joe ain't happy about all that? Right?! Some drama coming up maybe?!