Off Limits, Brother's Best Friend Chapter 191

Chapter 191: Stop Saving Your Body For My Brother 

Brianna

“I was saying all that stuff about you and Callan, I am dum. I am sorry I even compare us, he fucked up last night. He should have begged your forgiveness for his words then maybe he would have deserved even a kiss from you. Then obviously that man just doesn't give a fuck, please don't dwell on him. I have heard great things about Roy in bed, at least he can fúck because apparently Aaron can't. So enjoy him.”

I pinched the bridge of my nose at Jane's words.

“Leave the poor guy alone,” I shook my head at her.

“I am serious though, call up Roy and go do it with him. Stop saving your body for my brother because I know that is what you were doing before.” She called me out and my eyes went wide.

Subconsciously in London, after Callan walked out on me, I did save my body for him and I thought he would have his tantrum and then things would go back to normal. I thought that for the first two months maybe, before realizing he was truly done with me. I still couldn't hook up with anyone else though, I think subconsciously I kept saying to myself because I knew he would hate it if I was having sex with someone else and then sex with him again. But he never came back and after a few months, I finally let Andrew hook up with me. But look how quickly I lost interest in him because we moved here where Callan is. Jane is right in what she was saying, somewhere deep inside myself, I have to admit that is what I was doing. Am I still doing it? I can't be.

“I used to but I am not anymore,” I shook my head.

“Are you sure, babes? Because you dropped Andrew and you haven't pulled the trigger on Roy.” She is blunt but it is good. 

“Only because he is my brother's friend and I know he doen want me doing that.” I made my excuse but isn't it true?

“You are an adult now and you can't let your big brother dictate who you are seeing or who you are screwing. I understand that with Callan because it is his best friend and technically his boss. But Roy isn't even under his domain, he helps Hannah's brother run the Vortex crime family. He isn't some low level street guy, he is head of the household along with Hannah's father and brother.” 

She said all that like it would be a deciding factor. If anything, I still feel really weird about accepting who these people really are, criminals.

*****

Jane stayed over for half of the day but ended up leaving when her mother called her asking If she wanted to go to dinner at some fancy place. Bryce finally made it out of his room so I decided now was finally the time to give him his present.

“Sit on the sofa, I will be right back.” I said to him.

“You got me a gift? You didn't have to do that, kiddo, save your money.” She started lecturing me but I just walked right into the bedroom to grab it anyway. I was like a child with the excitement that shot through me in anticipation of his reaction. I replied hope this wasn't a dumb idea and that he actually likes it.

“Okay, go ahead.” I waved for him to open it. He placed the box on the coffee table in front of him and ripped off the wrapping paper until the words nintendo showed. It had come in its original packaging from the nineties. It was in great shape.

“No fucking way,” he chuckled.

“It is the old one like the one we had, do you like it?” I covered my mouth with my hands as I waited in anticipation. He stood up and gave me a hug.

“Yes, of course. I haven't played this shit in forever, you want to set it up?” He asked me, I grinned and nodded for him to start it up.

“I wasn't sure if it was a dumb idea, I just remembered us playing it a lot and since you have everything you want, I just wanted to think outside the box a little.” I explained my reasoning.

“No, it was a great idea. I would have never thought of something like that. You have always been the more thoughtful one anyway, I just shoved money in your face.” He replied with a smile on his lips as he thought of the gift he gave me last year.

“You have me two thousand, that is not really just shoving me a few cash or something thoughtless.” I chuckled.

“Yes, but I can afford it. It was the easiest thing to do, I hope you didn't spend too much on this.” He was talking but already sticking his head behind the television, trying to hook everything up. 

“I went and grabbed some drinks and after it was all set up, we decided to start playing so we could play against each other. I sat cross legged on the sofa and he was leaning forward, his elbow on his knees.

“Alright, don't start crying when I kick your ass.” He warned me and I snorted.

“I never cried,” I denied it.

“Ugh, a couple of times, I think you did.” He teased me.

“Shut up and play.” I nudged him to start it.

You would think two grown adults wouldn't completely turn into overgrown children while playing nostalgic games but we became small children all over again. He was teasing me and trying to shove me to make me lose, I would whine but when one of us was winning, we would start yelling so loud for no reason at all, other than for excitement. While we were at the game, his phone buzzed so I quieted and he picked up the call. Please, don't let it be Callan.

“No, I am just here with my sister, she brought me a video game for my birthday. So we were playing it like from our childhood.” He chuckled at whoever he was talking to, he pulled the phone away to speak to me.

“Angelo asked if he could come play, he sounded very enthusiastic.”

I chuckled but said yes. It is only a two player game because we only have two controllers but that is okay. It will be fun to read each verse.

***

If you think about the fact that these two men are literally feared by others for being in the mafia and carrying guns but now they are in my living room shouting over a carton characters slipping on a shell, it is pretty hilarious and I let them play first and I actually haven't laughed that much in a while. Angelo is an even worse sore loser than Bryce is, he isn't very good either.

“I need practice, I haven't played in over a decade.” He scoffed at us when I beat him too.

“Yes, Gelo, alright. Go ahead and practice.” I kept making fun of him. 

I haven't hung out with him a ton, but I have had a lot of passing conversations with the guy. He always seemed pretty chill, so I started calling him Gelo which I guess some of his family actually says as a nickname. He didn't seem to care that I used it, so I still do. I had been really hurting all day because of what went on with Callan last night and Hannah this morning. Playing with my brother, and then eventually, Gelo was helping soothe that ache in my chest with laughter at their antics. I know Jane swore I needed to have sex with Roy to lessen the pain but this was working just fine for me. It had less drama to just hang out with my big brother and his buddy while we played childhood games. Then to go off and screw yet another mafia, Jane would say I am saving myself for Callan when I know I won't even have him but it is not even that. Callan doesn't own my body or my pleasure even though he used to think he did.

Since I was next to play with Gelo, when there was a knock at the door I didn't even think twice about who it was would be when Bryce went to open the door. It wasn't until I heard the deep voice that my natural instinct was to turn to it.

“I forget I took your wallet because you were dropping it all over the place.” I heard Callan say to my brother and when the voice paused, I glanced over my  shoulder and saw him watching me and his cousin play the game.

“Oh, you fucker. I got distracted for a second.” I sucked my teeth when Gelo started laughing like a maniac.

“All is fair in love and Mario kart.” Gelo shouted as he passed me, it made me laugh but dang I wanted to win.