Pretending to Be an Untouchable Crime Boss-Chapter 197: Leader.

"Get off me, Sophia, and don't call me darling in front of everybody." James said, but she wasn't listening and her grip just tightened around him more, like she didn't want to let out of him, like she wanted to hug him forever.

"How was your sleep?" She asked as she chuckled a bit, and James immediately knew she was implying something by it… yeah, that she was butt-naked beside him all night.

"There was nothing special about it." As soon as he said it, she stepped back from him and legitimately looked offended by it, like her expression was disbelief. "What?" James asked as he stepped to the counter, grabbing a toast and munching on it, but she said nothing back, just stared at him and tried to look more offended, like she wanted to get out of James something and well, it worked

"Maybe I saw something that was… good." He said with a little embarrassment in his voice.

It's not cheating. Looking is not cheating…

"Oh really?" She immediately lit up and smiled, stepping toward him, but James held out his hand.

"Yeah, really, but don't grab me nor come closer. We need a distance between us, like five meters." He said once again as he ate the toast, and it actually made sense because now this situation might cause more and more trouble.

If somebody got it wrong, they might start calling Sophia the mistress of the family, and if that happened, it would cause more misunderstanding and trouble, especially with her, because there's no way she could do how James does his work. He gives people second chances that are not fucked up too much, but with Sophia, that would be even now a fucking quest to somehow put her on a chain, because she will kill everybody that disrespects James or the family, at least that James thought from the experience and gossip he heard about her.

Not just that, but what Hans told him when he visited her.

Yeah, all of these women around him, all obsessed… except one, who was Isabella, and she actually looked good. She had manners and looked sane even though she was on the top of the maniac level with Sophia… yeah, she was a woman he could actually think about, but she turned on him and stabbed him in the back.

His first girlfriend is an obsessed woman called Bella who kills and skins people, not to even mention she cuts off balls… a strong, independent woman on her way… while on the other side there is another woman who is literally the same, just a little bit more obsessed, more manic, and more bloodthirsty…

A jackpot or a curse who knows… but it is Bella, who James already pledged his loyalty to… and if he thinks more about it, Sophia would be worse than Bella.

Like, Bella already changed in some way, they already understood each other's feelings, and James had the talk with her about work and love, the two can't go together.

On the other hand, Sophia was the exact opposite of it.

Even though she kind of behaved like a whore around James, with others she is a leader and a stone-hard woman who puts fear into everybody who comes across her. This is exactly why she would be worse than Bella, because she was born to lead people. She's the perfect woman for a gangster family.

"Okay, I get it, but I will always be in your shadow… and sleep with you, and wear your clothes and—"

"Don't you have work to do? I appointed you as a branch leader." James quickly said before she listed everything and she actually just realized that it was true.

Like she is really part of the Bellini family and more than that, she leads a branch of the family… and she aimed to be the best of it, so as fast as James said it, it was like a switch flipped in her mind.

She, without a word, just turned around and spirited back upstairs. It was her time to shine, to show she wasn't just offering her body to James but everything with it… in simple words, she wanted to outshine Bella's spot, and with her intelligence, strategy and information, she wanted to push her down from the first place and become the girlfriend of James.

And ohh shit, she was ready for it… like for real.

She had plans, a lot of it, in the suitcase upstairs. When she opened it, it was a dossier of documents, information, everything she collected over the years, pen drives, everything you can think about. But there was a dossier that was white with James's name on it, and well, it was her plan.

She already did everything to prepare for a scenario that she became a Bellini, but moreover in a higher position, and she actually guessed the branch leader position right… or that was one of the dozens of the outcomes she thought about, but still, it was there.

She also knew two things that were more important than everything now that she is in a leading position.

The first one, the branch leader position in a family could be dangerous. If she makes a mistake, it might be seen as a betrayal, or like she wants to take over the main family or start a war with it, so she needs to control her own desire and act based on James's moves.

Second one connects to the first one, that with this, acting on James's actions, she needs to do things right to show him that she's actually worthy but not a rat, a snake who would use her power against him.

For Sophia, proving herself to James meant more than anything else and she was ready for it, so ready that she worked countless hours, gathering the best information, clues, and connections.

She was more prepared than anyone else, practically a diamond among stones, and she made sure to use it.