Pretending to Be an Untouchable Crime Boss-Chapter 189: Which side?

While this chapter contains strong themes related to politics, organized crime, corruption, and society, it is not meant to encourage, promote, or glorify any real life criminal behavior, political ideology, or taking sides in real world conflicts.

Please read it with the understanding that it is fictional and intended for entertainment purposes only.

She stood there in silence as James went into the house with Hector and Ramirez because she realized she stepped over the line with the kiss, but on the contrary she was also happy because just seconds ago she became a Bellini… which gave her the spot to be with James every time even if she can't do anything to him… but knowing Sophia she would try anyways to get into his heart even though her life was on the line.

Meanwhile, everybody else was just looking at her with disbelief, more importantly the IF agents who still stood there with now the information that Sophia joined the Bellini family and it just got more powerful, so powerful that they now were debating even themselves.

Like they were in the estate of Bellini without any trouble, like the guards didn't even look at them in a bad way, they didn't have any attitude or look, like they themselves were part of the family too, and well it was kinda true.

These agents were the ones that Thomas quickly gathered together, those agents he worked years with, the agents that saw how the corruption played out, the agents who saw gang wars, the agents who saw the Lucian empire and it crumbling, but this was very different from that.

James to them wasn't like Lucian, the man who killed you the moment he realized that you are working for law enforcement or an agency, he was a menace, a monster on its own kind, he was a whole other level of madness, but this man James, was different from him, they felt it, that they could work with him, side by side, because the agencies knew it very well what he was working on and what he did in the past.

Because James helped them and the government when he showed up suddenly from nowhere, when Costa De Furga and his whole upper leadership died.

The agency and law enforcement did so much investigation but every single time they were running in loops and that loop was thanks to Costa himself and his connections in the upper level of the government. Literally when they had evidence that pointed at him, that connected him to a murder, to an assassination, to drugs, it suddenly disappeared, like out of the warehouse, out of the concrete bunker downstairs at the agencies, but not just that, he even had people in the High Court to save his ass, it was literally impossible to get him, even when he killed innocents and civilians, when he bombed a museum and a restaurant, when he bombed a school because his children were kicked out… he was untouchable… well, not for too long.

When they heard that they all died, they were in disbelief and confusion about what had happened, because there wasn't anyone to point at or moreover there wasn't anything special about James to point at.

A college student who just dropped out and started working at a coffee shop suddenly became the mastermind that killed someone untouchable.

That's when his name spread like wildfire across all agencies and ministries. Files upon files were opened about him, but there was no evidence,nothing they could use to accuse him of being the one who poisoned them. They had no DNA, no footage, nothing to prove what the hell happened. But one thing they were certain of… he was a player in the underworld.

They first thought he was Lucian's man, his right-hand, his shadow, but that didn't make any sense, because there was no connection between them.

So, what happened after that was nothing.

That was their biggest mistake, if they would've investigated him a little longer, keeping an eye on him, maybe they could have arrested him a long time ago, because as soon as they closed all the files down, the family emerged from the shadows.

The Bellini family, with all its key players, in two years became one of the most powerful organized crime groups with its difference from the others.

It wasn't following the scheme of gangsters, drug lords, and mafias, not even a little bit.

Most of the organized crime uses their people to gain more and more money while giving nothing back, just to make themselves rich and that's it, but with the Bellini family it was so different that it spiraled out of hand to even measure it accurately.

Dozens, then hundreds, five hundred, then hit a thousand, people genuinely keen to work for him, to be part of that family, because he gave back, not as an act, but genuinely did it, paid a lot of salary, covered hospital bills, and gave the people hope that at least in this rotten country one person is for them, for the poor and desperate people.

That was something unbelievable, because as the agency counted, the Bellini family was in minus, or barely having any profit, at least in the organized crime world what the Bellini family made was barely anything, couple hundred millions, maybe a billion or two, but they paid out so much to their workers that it was just unbelievable.

There wasn't any other family or gang that did it, just them, just James, and if he would've done it for profit, he would at least be worth 40 billion or much more than that, but then he would've lost his most powerful cards.

The people.

Those people, who aren't threatened to work for them, yeah there is not the threat for their family, that they would kill everybody if they didn't do a certain thing for the family, no, there isn't anything like that, and that's exactly what is good in it, why people are so loyal to him.

James doesn't promise things, he does it.

Hope. Future. Money.

They got all three, even if their life was on the line, they could have at least enjoyed the remaining time of their life knowing that finally they're living their dreams, going shopping without looking at the price, without buying the cheaper one, going home to the house that is theirs.

A couple thousand dollars can buy loyalty?

No, it's not about money but about someone that stood up for them.

This mentality also reached the agencies, the government, that's how the leaking and the bribes happened, because some of them didn't even want money, but connection to the family. That was the first time it happened, at least on that big of a scale, because Lucian, well, tried it but he wasn't that kind… more like he used weapons to do it and fear, and Costa too.

Their names came with fear that they will destroy everything if you say no, and James' name too, but it has something to it, the different viewpoint.

If you say no, there is the chance you die, but there is the chance that he just says okay, bet, and moves on, maybe offers something better, a deal that you can take, and the chance you don't even say no because you heard too many good things about him, that people walk up to the family to be accepted because it is the spot to get your life better.

These IF agents now were in this situation, they felt something, maybe a pulling to the Bellini family, pulling toward something that they fought against for years, because in the end, it's all the same. ƒrēewebnoѵёl.cσm

The government steals, kills, and is corrupt as fuck, just like the mafia does these things too, just in a way that people say is wrong and it's unacceptable, while the government does it through non-profit organizations, Union money, and different companies, different agencies.

Everyone knows it, and everyone only looks past it like it is an everyday thing, and even though some report on it, journalists raise their voice against the government…what's going to happen?

Nothing, maybe a demonstration, a protest, and then what? Everybody goes home, claps their hands, says it was a good cause, and that's it… the next day hundreds of millions again laundered and fell into politicians' pockets.

Same with the mafia, with the little spark on it that they would just kill them on the spot, they will retaliate against these reporters and journalists in no time.

This is the reality. The reality is that people need to choose a side, because leaving sideless on your own just means you are accepting both of it and try to do the bare minimum to survive, but that too was a choice on its own.

These people, who stay on their own going into a factory, working for 600 dollars, going home and sleep and do it all over again, while their lifestyle stays the same, while taxes raise, food prices raise, hell the politicians having parties sniffing white magic and fucking strippers.

While the mafia at war with each other to who rules which city, town or region, while Bellini pays out thousands to his people, those too who just drive, who just work at warehouses, or at the plants.

And the people picked their sides, that's how the Bellini family got hundreds of people working, that's how the agents' perception of justice on this whole shit is slowly changed.

"Do you have a cigarette?" One of the guards stepped on one of the agents.

"What?"

"A cigarette, do you mind sharing one with me?" He asked again as he looked at the agent while an AR was in his hand.

sn't fear in him, when he would get shot, or what was going to happen next, he just calmly pulled out a pack of cigarettes. "Here."

"Thank you brother, you just saved me."

Yeah one agent has already picked a side, a side where he will have no regret of dying.

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