HE MARRIED HIS DEAD FRIEND’S FORGOTTEN COUSIN OUT OF DUTY—BUT HE NEVER EXPECTED HER TO BECOME THE ONE WOMAN HE COULDN’T LET GO

powerful, feared, wealthy, and built like someone carved out of stone and consequence. He ran an empire that reached from the docks of Boston to private rooms in Atlantic City. He did not need a thirty-two-year-old woman with wide hips, secondhand shoes, a hotel front desk job, and a family that treated her like furniture.

But Jack did not look relieved.continue reading …