Pretending to Be an Untouchable Crime Boss

"What did you say…?" She asked back as she slowly stood up from her desk, her left hand already knuckled up, and it was a indication for both Stephen and Thomas that something was up… more like fucked.

Because as he listened to what Benjamin was saying to her, she gradually started to become red, like her face was starting to look like those devils in comics and even her veins were popping out on her head.

But the clearest indicator was when she closed her eyes and started taking deep breaths.

"Linda—" Stephen couldn't really ask her a question because Linda just fucking threw her phone at the wall and it literally exploded, and if it wasn't enough, she stepped toward it and started stomping the shit out of it.

"Fuck! Fuck! Fuck! Fucking bitch!" She screamed as she was stomping the shit out of the almost non-existent phone on the floor, the one that was literally the protective line between her and William and well everybody… "Call up Benjamin right now!" She screamed at Thomas looking like a fucking demon.

Thomas did exactly that, pulled out his phone, calling up Benjamin and putting it on loudspeaker.

"What did you say to Linda?" He asked, and well, Benjamin at first didn't speak as he heard the heavy breath of Linda.

"I told him about James." He said with no hesitation or anything in his voice that could tell anything to them. He was calm, not panicked.

"I get it, but what? Because she is exploding right now." Thomas said, as now Linda seemed like phase one of her rage was over and was prepping for the second phase as she stood staring at Thomas with both of her hands knuckled up.

"James said that… well basically I wanted to talk about our plans to be more effective and it didn't go how I wanted it."

Now his voice was hesitant.

"What the fuck happened?" Stephen now spoke as he got closer to the phone.

"Basically he said to leave him the fuck alone for 3 weeks… and that he… is going to go to Maraci, and if we don't let him absolutely chill out, he's going to behead us and will parade with our heads like a barbarian… like those were his exact words."

Now all of them got why Linda was exploding.

Even Stephen now covered his face and started breathing heavy, his pulse just quickened even more, and of course, not minutes ago he just talked about to not fuck with James because he's somebody who's already unstable… and now Benjamin did exactly that… but the most important thing of it is that they all knew he is really going to do it… like chop their heads off.

At least Stephen and Linda knew it. They saw him popping out the chief's eyes, literally his fingers were in his skull… they knew the best that if James says something like this, he is not joking nor is it just a bluff or threat… he will really fucking parade around with their heads if they fuck up… but fuck up what?

That's what was in Thomas's head when he asked back.

"Benjamin, what did you say to him? We didn't even talk about anything."

"I might have gone overboard with it… but I thought it would be a good plan and idea to actually… well, arrest him and launch a false investigation to—"

"You're fucking joking…" Stephen whispered as staring at the phone, frozen the moment Benjamin said it.

Like he already imagined his head being chopped off… no… worse than that, he already saw that they are fucking torturing him… no, before that, they torture his family, his already grown-up kids, his wife… and then comes him.

There will be no pride in his death, but only despair… despair in his eyes with suffering as he watches how his family is being tortured and beheaded and guilt as he realizes this is something he deserves to be done to him.

The reality that can happen… and will happen if they really fuck up, because there is no other option. Bellini now is too important to be killed off, he is too influential to be thrown into a dirt pit, because his men, the family built around him, the connections he has… they can't kill him.

Corruption is a cruel thing… because there will always be somebody, there will always be something you just can't fucking do a thing about, even at the highest level of it.

There will always be some fuckers who are untouchable… because it isn't about that he can't die, it's about that he can't be killed, because if he dies, all hell breaks loose. But the most important part about it, the cruel truth of it… that Stephen knew well, just like how everybody knew it… that it was them.

They created Bellini.

They created him and the environment where he can thrive… not just him, Augustus, Silas, and every single fucking one of them. They thrived because they did nothing about it.

The real godfather of the underworld, the king of it, is them… the government, the higher-ups. Linda, who at first seemed like the medicine for this rotten wound, but as she experienced the reality, the corruption, the deals… she stopped chasing justice. She gave up and became just like the others… just like Stephen, just like Thomas and Odin did.

Three special agents who were better than others, those who actually believed in justice and chased those who were against it… yeah, but once the promotion came after decades of work, what they saw at the top was that… everybody just didn't give a single fuck.

They couldn't start investigations against people, because politicians had ties with them, they couldn't do shit… so they sat back… and that's it. Look how it plays out, how the criminal underworld thrives.

And now when they finally want to change it, even though it's just more corruption with a bit of justice sparking at the top of it… they can't just do it, exactly because they created the perfect environment for a single figure in the underworld whose hands reach far beyond what everybody ever thought it would.

Augustus was the one, the one and only gangster who was somebody that many called untouchable, that someone who showed what is the top, what is the peak, and how the view is from up there… but no, it wasn't him, but the man who ruled in his shadow, the man who nobody knew a single fucking thing about, the man who is already at peak because all of them…

And now he is fucking dictating the pace… he is the fucking one who is dictating it, not them, not the government, but a fucking gangster…

The Angel of Death.