After a terrible accident, mob boss Curtis Everett needs help raising his two children.
Presley Adams needs money to get away to the West coast. An ad for a nanny looks like the perfect opportunity to make cash quick. What she didn't expect was to...
Welcome to Concord. An up-and-coming town outside of Boston. Where kids can play with their friends and shop owners advertise with signs on the street. It's a quiet town. An unassuming town. A town where one-man rules and no one forgets it.
This town, Concord, is Curtis Everett's town.
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"Anna, come back to me." A man slept in his bed, tossing and turning, reliving an old nightmare.
Four Years Prior...
Curtis
"Are you sure you're gonna be ok?"
I could see that my wife is exasperated with me. "Honey, it's just to see my parents and back. One weekend. You can last one weekend with the kids." She took in my grumpy face and smiled. "Curtis, I would take them with me but..."
"I know, it's for their safety," I grumble. Anna giggles at me. I love that she giggles at me. Her big scary mob husband.
My name is Curtis Everett, head of the Everett family of Concord, mob boss and King of this town just outside of Boston. Most people would consider me a scary sight. Tall, brooding with a buzz cut, beard and piecing blue eyes that, more than a few people have said, seemed to be able to suck out your soul. I took over for my dad a couple of years ago. My business in the city is protection, that everyone paid, gambling, which Sherrif Bodecker turned a blind eye to for a fee, and clubs, strip or otherwise. I ruled with a ruthlessness that could make a man piss himself.
But I know my place. I have four other equals that answer to a higher power.
But in my town, Concord, I am the head of our town, the law, the savior and the devil.
I only have three weaknesses in the entire world: my wife and children. I just don't like being away from you, sweetheart.
"I know, my love, but daddy is sick, and momma just needs a break for a few days." Standing on the curb at the airport, Anna Everett knows me very well. Her big, surly, bossy of a mob boss is truly a teddy bear underneath, she would tell her mother. Her father had been the same until he had stepped down to her brother. She married into the Everett family to tighten the alliance between families from Chicago and Boston, so she was well versed in protection and sacrifice. It was just chance that Anna and I had met in college before and were already in love when the alliance was made. I still think that Dad and my father-in-law set us up, hoping that Anna and I falling in love, would be the outcome.
I pulled her back into my arms and kissed her forehead. "I know. Just hurry back to me, Mrs. Everett. I love you."
"I love you, Mr. Everett." She kissed him slowly and passionately. "Take care of my babies."
