The Nanny and The Don

by Tatum James

I noticed her hair first, probably because there was so much of it. The biggest curly afro sat on her head like a crown and framed a perfect dark chocolate face. She was strikingly beautiful with full bow-shaped lips and huge almond-shaped eyes.

My princess doesn’t have to do any of this shit. My princess needs to sit on her throne while people serve her.

She was his princess 2% in and hasn’t really said 5 words to her

“How about this? If my woman is working here when I make it back from Japan, I’m leveling this whole building, then you can sort that shit out with your insurance company.”

His woman….already!

It was annoying that this asshole of a man who made my blood boil was so sickeningly sexy.

How in the world does someone manage to look like an assassin and a model at the same time? This was some black James Bond shit if you asked me.

I wanted to kill Brendan White when I saw my fucking woman waltzing into that ballroom on his arm. There were no rules when it came to love and war. He and I had been business associates for almost ten years.

I understood my sister wanting to have a nigga with money. She didn’t need one though. Her brother was the ultimate nigga with money.

Dickmatized wasn’t just a word people used to describe women who got stupid when it came to the dick. It was a real thing. It cost me the woman who had been by my side for as long as I could remember.

Unless Brendan could explain what was going on soon and very soon, I was about to start looking at him sideways. If he would steal a woman right from under my nose and flaunt her in my face at an event my board members organized, he was capable of anything.

He’s been off the radar for almost a week. I just found out how to get him out of the shadows though.” “Good, now can you please leave?” I asked, urging him to go. “Hmph,” he scoffed as he stooped and tossed me over his shoulder like a rag doll. I kicked and screamed, pounding on his back as he shifted my weight to get a better hold on me. “Put me the fuck down!” I demanded.

“Because you came in here and made yourself the queen of this house, no matter the circumstances that brought you here. You have literally saved my life and made this unfamiliar territory tolerable. I know I didn’t bring you here on the best terms, but I would be a fool not to tell you how much I appreciate everything you do for the kids. You’re like a prettier, chocolate-covered Mary Poppins,”

“And I said my princess is nobody’s servant, not even mine. Plus, I have to do something to pitch in after you slaved over a stove and made sure both me and the kids had something to eat.”

“I don’t mean your stature. I mean your personality, your aura, your light. They’re all big and bold. There is nothing small about you in general. You’re amazing and beautiful and special, Devlan. Don’t let anything or anyone make you feel any differently.”

Everything I do is because I think I love you. I think I loved you the first time I saw you,” he confessed.

“My world stopped the first time you smiled at me. I’ll stop this muthafucka forever if you ask me to. Just stay here with me. Not because you’re scared of what I’ll do, but because you can’t stand to be away from me either. I need you like a flower needs rain. I was dying slowly before you came here. I want you to keep watering me,” he said, cupping my face.