Off Limits, Brother's Best Friend Chapter 196

Chapter 196: Is He Okay 

Callan

“Angelo, call the head of the household but call the doctor first and handle this.” I handed our doorman to him who was bleeding a little more.

Casualties happens but those Black Knight fucks got way to close to me again. This is going to be handled, I started rushing upstairs and calling Bryce. I need my second gun and my second hand man. By the time I got up to the penthouse and down to Bryce's past, he was rushing out.

“Are you alright, man? Are you sure you aren't hit?” His eyes swept over me to see if I was lying. Sometimes, I ignore when I am hurt, so I guess I know why.

“I am getting the house together, we were not letting this war unfold slowly 

anymore. If they want to fuck witn us then I will give it to them.” I motioned for him to follow me down.

“They could be outside again, Callan. Don't rush out with a hot head. What did the car look like?” 

My level headed friend put me in place, I was already pissed off about the Vortex thing now I am super fucking pissed off about the Black Knight having the balls to try to shoot me in front of my place of residence. The all stems from the fucking bastard. I am going to bed with him too. I cursed when police were lingering around the property, I have to walk up to the DPO now and tell him to make this go away. My business has been running too smoothly for so long for anyone to come and ruin it now and I curated it into something of my own. I legalized a good majority of the business to run on our front and keep operation high functioning. I am not letting some hot headed men try and get too ambitious and try to mess with my gun runners and my territory. Not happening.

My phone was ringing and I could see it was one of my cousins so I handed it to Bryce and went to talk to the police. I also need to call my mother and sisters to tell them I want them to lay low. They have been in life, they all know what that means. I had all these things going on in my mind at once. I need to do a lot of things to lock down my businesses, make sure my people are on lockdown and start planning my master plan before I have to stand in front of the five households including my own and tell them what to do next. It is all in my head, it is why those Black Knight pricks want the most. When I got back to Bryce, I couldn't help myself when asked.

“Is your sister aware of the lockdown?” His eyes snapped up to mine.

“She isn't home, she slept at your sister's house but I told Jane we were on lockdown and she will be discreet about Brianna being safe without my having to freak her out.” He replied.

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All I heard was that he thinks she slept at my sister's house and that she isn't home. She slept at his house, she went to Roy Vortex last night and somehow Angelo knew it. My hand gripped the wheel tighter as I tried to focus on the real trouble at hand. Don't kill Roy right now, this isn't the time. I nodded to my best friend and pretended Brianna damn Fletcher was with my sister right now. Fucking Roy Vortex.

*****

Brianna POV

Roy ended up making us a nice breakfast but didn't let me linger too much on the mafia stuff. He started making me laugh instead and when his phone started to ring, he glanced at the screen and excused himself from the table. I decided to start cleaning up since he was nice enough to cook and I was still only in his shirt as I moved around the kitchen.

“What?” I heard his voice get louder and clearly surprised.

“Yes, I will head over now.” He said to whoever was on the phone and when he hung up, he came straight to me.

“Brianna, I am sorry, I have to go.” He said, taking the plate out of my hands and rubbing my knuckles while he spoke to me.

“It is okay, is everything alright?” I asked him, and he hesitated for a second.

“You don't want me to lie to you, right?” He asked and I nodded and blinked up at him.

“Someone tried shooting Callan outside your apartment building.” He started talking but my heart dropped at the first half of his sentence. Someone shot at Callan.

“Is he okay?” I couldn't hold back my panic.

“Yes, they missed him.” I felt his eyes studying me. He didn't say anything about my reaction, he just apologized again for having to run out on me. My heart was thrumming in my chest.

“Bryce wasn't there, right?” I asked as he started collecting his things and throwing clothes on.

“I don't think so, darling.” He pulled his pants up.

“Listen, you stay here and I will have one of my buddies come pick you up and bring you somewhere. I don't want to go home alone.” He furrowed his eyebrows.

“It is fine, I will figure it out.” I assured him. He stopped in front of me and pulled me to him.

“Brianna, I am going to have my guy come and escort you to Jane's house.” He was asking now and I just nodded quietly.

I guess I would be nervous to go home if the shooting happened right there. The thought of it just punches me in the gut, Callan could have just been killed.

“I will have my guy text you, you don't step out of this house unless a guy named Marco is here to get you, okay?” He looked down at me and I appreciated his protection. Bryce thinks I am with Jane and I can bet anything he told her not to tell me but to keep me protected. I could bet money on it.

He leaned down and kissed my lips before pulling away and tossing a shirt on. His keys were in hand and he glanced back one more time before walking out the door. I hope he is safe, I hope all of them are. This pit in my stomach was only growing with every passing moment.  Callan was almost shot, Bryce is out in the city somewhere and so is Roy now too. What are they going to do? Gosh, I hate this. When I lifted my phone to try to text my brother, I realized I was shaking.

'Love you, please be safe.’ I sent the message to Bryce. I know he doesn't want me to know but I needed to tell him I love him. I don't want anything to ever happen and…gosh, no. I can't even think of it.

It sours my gut so much, I can barely stand it. I got dressed and waited for the text from Marco whoever that is. I called Jane in the meantime and she huffed that she was just picking up the phone to call me.

“Roy wants me to come to your house instead of my own.” I said to her.

“Yes, come over. How are you going to get here?” She asked me.

“He sent one of his friends to escort me.” I replied.

“He did? Gosh, what a cutie.” She gushed, now is not the time.

“Jane, your brother.” I managed to say. How can she even stand it?

“I know, Brianna. Everything is going to be okay.”

I don't know if she has convinced herself of that over the years or if she said it for my sake but I felt very not okay about all this. When I felt the vibration, I knew I received a text.

“Marco is here.” I told her. 

We hung up after that and I walked outside to meet the man running around the car to quickly open the door for me.

“Miss Fletcher?” He nodded.

Oh, great, he knows who I am and he sees me leaving Roy's house this morning. I hope word doesn't travel fast because now isn't the time for a blow out.

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I spent the majority of the day with this horrible pit in my stomach. Jane tried to put on a movie and tried to gossip but my mind was only in one place.

“You have been too worried all day. I barely got to hear about Roy.” She finally got sick of me and huffed.

“How do you stay this calm?” I couldn't understand her right now.

“Years of practice,” she threw her hands up.

“Come on, tell me about him.” She coaxed it out of me. I finally caved and told her how I liked the sex a lot. I told her he is a really good guy and a little bit about how things went like how he made me breakfast and everything.

“Umm, I am kind of in love. I had no idea Roy would be so adorable. He is not really known to be the sweetie pie of the group.” She snorted.

“Tell me about him then.” I found myself asking and she grinned.

“Okay, umm, let's see. Obviously we all went to school together as I always say. He was definitely a troublemaker in school, he got suspended all the time but so did Callan. So Callan and Hannah's brother Gabriel who we all call Gabe are best friends. Or at least they were, they were good friends but I think Bryce kind of replaced him a little bit, anyways.” She sucked in a breath, ready to ramble.