Off Limits, Brother's Best Friend Novels & Stories

“Let me talk to him. Just give me five minutes to talk to him.” “Bronx, listen. We all care about you and love you. You’re not just my big brother. You are like a brother to Reggie and Milo. The rest of your unit, too. All of them are committed to going through therapy and putting in the work so they can get back to their lives and be proud, productive members of this pack. You’re the only one who seems to think the rules don’t apply to you. Honestly, that blows my fucking mind, because I’ve never seen you break a rule in my life.”

If I cannot tell him that I was mated to him, I will find ways to be close to him. "Why?" "Why what? My brother can be friends with your sister and I can't?" I asked him. "The friendship between my sister and your brother is different. Even though I hate the fact that she is seeing him, it is still unique. So..." He stopped talking when he saw the way I was looking at him. I could not help the smile that broke on my lips at the way he was speaking. He cleared the throat before facing the huge screen. "The movie is about to start. Focus."

Jacob made a tsking sound and I could tell he was disappointed in me. " Micah and I got into a lot of fights too, but that didn't stop us from being best friends. My brothers had to watch us just to make sure we didn't get hurt because they thought we were feeble and needed constant care. We pulled pranks on the pack members and acted innocent when they found out it was us. We once blamed an incident on jasper after a pup was crying when I gave him a sour patch to eat but jasper didn't give us away and took the blame." He was laughing by the time I was done telling him my stories. I had plenty more to tell him too but that was going to wait until another day.

“This is fucked, man. All of it.” Ethan leaned back against his truck. “You think I don’t know that?” “We’ve been friends since sixth grade. You remember when my dad took us camping and you fell in the river trying to show off?” Jake gave a short laugh that died quick. “Now I can’t even look at you without wanting to swing again. Because of my sister.” “I remember,” Ethan said quietly. “I remember a lot of shit. That’s why this sucks so bad.”

My breath catches in my throat like I’ve just been punched by the universe itself. Alexander fucking Madrigal. My brother’s best friend. Valesquez’s younger brother. My teenage crush who morphed into a grown-up nightmare with cheekbones that could cut glass and a moral compass that points exclusively toward chaos. According to the document—and I’m reading this three times because surely the universe isn’t this twisted—he was photographed leaving a private club in Manhattan with Isabella Orlando. As in, the daughter of Michael Orlando, notorious Bratva boss and the kind of man who makes other dangerous men check under their beds at night.

I squeezed my eyes shut and rubbed my forehead and temples. “He was the best brother anyone could ask for. He was my rock, he was my world. While other girls would drive every possible topic to their boyfriends, I drove every potential topic to my brother,” I started as the tears prick the back of my eyes and my breathing started to get heavy. I gave out a weak laugh when flashes of annoyed faces my old friends would give me whenever I brought my brother up pop into my head. He was good looking and my friends often call him “drool- worthy” at times but when someone brings the dude up a million times, people were bound to get annoyed.

Just the mention of Thorne’s name makes my pulse spike and my heart skip. Fucking hell. I still hate him. Thorne Xandros was my brother’s best friend and the first man I ever have a crush on. But Alec always reminded me that Thorne is like our brother. He always smacked Thorne on the head if Thorne looked at me longer than he should. “She’s our sister, Thorne. Don’t forget that,” Alec always said to Thorne in situations like that. But I never wanted to be a sister to Thorne. I wanted something intimate.

Now that I'd become a part of this brood, there was nothing I wanted more than to be a part of something bigger. Ironically, the family didn't stop with the four gorgeous guys-they each had a counterpart in the Wright family. Joey Wright and Moby were best friends with almost identical personalities. Jacob, better known as Jake, was Brooks's sidekick, and Landis and Julie had some weird platonic thing going that every one of Landis's girlfriends was jealous of. I wasn't sure who they showered with more protection, poor Julie, or me-she was the baby; I was the victim. Having six large men watching me, daring people to glance in my direction just so they could intervene was overwhelming. Lucki

"How could you just shut me off your life just like that.. you bought another house in New York and you didn't even bother to tell me about it? Is that what our friendship really means to you? A joke? You don't trust me anymore or what?" "Look man. I was very stupid back then when I made those decisions but now I promise you, as my best friend, you'll have a lot of says in my life now. Consider yourself a brother now.. infact more than a brother.. So please don't be mad..." "Hmm. More than a brother... I like the sound of that....On one condition" "Anything..." "We'll go to car racing when you get better and you'll loosen up a bit.." "I promise."

I posed with my most dramatic posture I can master "I've been training with your brother and you know how he can throw a mean punch but I'm not complaining" he said "well I sure you can take a punch with this mean looking bod-" I was about to finish my comeback when I heard my brother clearing his throat and I jumped back a little from Jack, Jack is my brother's friend and next in line beta to the moon rising pack,ever since we where young he has always been cocky and flirtatious around me and he always thought we would be mates because I've always flirted back, while to me it was nothing more than an innocent flirt