Pretending to Be an Untouchable Crime Boss

After he left the meeting, James went out to the garden and just sat down looking up to the sky.

This whole thing was just too much and still just the beginning of everything, but the thing that weighed him down the most was the responsibility for his employees. Like, a thousand people work for him and he needed to do something to be able to protect them, but he knew that would be impossible to protect everybody in the family and some of them will eventually die or get kidnapped for information and will get brutally tortured… he knew it very well because that's how it is, world, that's how the cartel works. If they want something, they are going to grab it.

And that was the most important thing for him, if they started snatching away members of this family, the whole structure could just crumble even more. The people came for him for hope, but now that hope is changed into survival and fight for their life.

It wasn't the chill family that they once joined.

What happens if they start dipping? Start leaving him?

Then all of the effort to actually save them and have a family that can be at the top would mean nothing.

The death of Rafael, the death of Hans, will mean literally nothing, as well as all this fucking bullshit he chose to go after. He chose to become the person he impersonated, the crime boss, and now it all could fall within a month, because all of this is just a mess.

Deal upon deals, plan upon plans, there was not a straight answer to anything, because action came after action, revenge after revenge… yeah, he revenged those who wanted to kill him, he revenged those who deserved it, and maybe that was too much too.

He was blinded by the anger and just went after them, and with that he just put everything in danger… if he would have a more clear mind and calm like how he used to be, he could plan out everything, do it quick and efficiently, but now the government also got involved in all of this.

What if they turn against us… then all of this is just nothing, an act. He let out a long breath as he thought about all the possible scenarios and, well, everything just seemed to be going at the worst.

He had no faith nor trust in the government, but had some kind of trust in Benjamin and Linda, even though they were a little hard to follow as people, but the government itself no, he didn't have a little bit of trust, just like how the gangster code wrote it down.

Never trust the feds. Never, because they will eventually become snakes and will fuck you up.

Yeah, they just use you until they can, but after that it would all fall.

And looking at the bigger picture it might be all a trap. James read and watched so many things to get familiar with this life and there are stories out there, what happened when the government and the underworld had a deal.

One of them eventually was defeated or overtaken, or this option which is the worst that could have happened is the intentional interference.

In Dennus, the government was totally overtaken by the cartel, even the fucking president himself, but then how did the new president come in power, the people's president?

By having foreign agencies interfere with the election and corruption. Once the Union sees through all the acts and what is really happening and they interfere, that could only mean downfall to everybody.

Yeah, it is crazy how others send agents to fuck up whole Dennus to not be able to grow its economy and become a dangerous player on the continent, and when they fucked up the whole country by helping the cartel, then they just decide to… you know what, that was enough and let's help the people who want peace.

They fucked up the whole system, cause suffering, countless deaths, then just become the good boys and helped to put somebody in power who still loves his country and wants to fuck up the whole cartel… yeah, but they fucked up with that too.

They wanted him to be a puppet. Mr. Pablo Perico, the president of Dennus and the moment he claimed the presidential power, he started to reform the whole system, and one thing he did the best is getting back the military and executing the bribed generals and literally everyone who had their hand in the deal with the cartel.

The foreign agencies had the power, the military, and a president who can act as puppet, and with that they could have controlled the cartel and its sales, the price of the drug and drug export… but they fucked up like shit.

Perico wasn't no bitch who knelt before gringos. No, he is an egoistic leader who actually loves his people, his country, his culture. So the moment he had the military, he immediately formed the National Strategic Intervention in short NSI a branch of the military that is ready to fuck up everybody, and that really meant everybody.

The NSI's first mission was to get back Arbera, because of its port it was the biggest and the closest route to other countries, but one thing was a bad, they weren't that good, so how could they even start with it, when everybody laughed at them… they asked for help, and that help came from the ISB, NSBI, and the IF.

Yeah, after kicking out everybody, Perico asked for help, and the operation to take back Arbera became a reality, and well, it was terrifying. The agencies did nothing, just gave intel and that was it, but the NSI was fucking massacring everybody who was in the intel. They killed mayors, governors, killed everybody in Arbera to get back the power over the biggest port. Helicopters, even fucking jets were flying to intimidate the cartel, and well, it worked, and Arbera was back to the people, to the government… and to Hector.

Yeah, he started the operation not short after this whole thing happened, and when the border war started.

"What if they come here too… then we fucked up on a whole other level." James whispered as he looked at his mother's flower, those beautiful yellow ones… yellow just like the Union emblem.

If those fuckers came in to "help" the government, that would mean they are so fucked up that it is unbelievable, and well, there was a chance to it, especially right now.

The news comes out that Silas and all of them died, the VP too, the whole international media will pick it up, and the Union will be the first to knock on the door, to help, to let the international agencies to come in and on paper eliminate and arrest every single gangster, but in reality do the exact same thing they did in Dennus… to take all the drugs and dip with it the fuck away.

Yeah, because in here there is no cartel, this country can't be thrown in that much desperate position like Dennus.

But that was actually just the smallest problem. The biggest problem in all of this is the public.

James is an unknown figure, only known by the underworld and there too only by the name. Not a lot of people actually know how he looks, who he talks to, or anything close to it. His men are more known, like Hector and Ferucci, but him himself, no. And there comes the risk.

The Union is not just an alliance of countries but an organization that has its own agencies and military… and let's say they get a clue on James and what he is, and how influential.

They can interpret it as a threat to the Union itself.

So the International Investigation Court of the Union can issue an arrest warrant, and if that happens, shit, a lot of things will become clear why it happened and how.

The second his whole face would be known internationaly, and it just will become more and more dangerous, fucking journalists, more agencies in, and those fucking hunters who want to get their reward because the Union usually puts out a bounty, like millions.

If that would happen, the government itself will basically be in their scope too, and what would they do? What would Linda do or the president?

Stay next to him?

Hell nah, they would just forget him in a second and stab him in the back.

One thing was sure: if something like that happened, the family would not last even a year. Not a single one of them would be left, hunted down, dead, or jailed for life.

"Better to die than sit in jail and let them laugh…" He whispered and with that, he stood up and as he turned, he saw something that was… not something he thought he would see.

Mango was staring at him, while pissing on one of the flowers that her mother dearly treasured… but she didn't really care about it, staring the whole time into James's eyes.

"You mocking me or is this some trust that you're pissing while staring at me?" He asked, but Mango just finished her job and ran away.

"Maybe just mocking… fuck me, even a dog mocks me…" He laughed at that as he went back to the house, where not long after, the news would come in… and it would be something on a whole new level that would seal their fate.