Pretending to Be an Untouchable Crime Boss-Chapter 155: Done Deal.

Inside Marco’s house everything was fine, he did not expect anything to happen, nor had anybody told him that his so-called empire he built, or tried to build, was on the verge of collapsing.

He was actually already a bit drunk, eating a steak and drinking red wine with none other than one of the high-ranking members of Sinatra.

"So this James Bellini is really a problem?" Emmanuel asked Marco, who was munching on the steak.

He wasn’t that man who knew how to execute fine dining, more like a barbaric one that just ate the whole shit up in one go.

"He is a problem but not that much." Marco chuckled. "He has influence, has connections, but I never saw him to be a murderer, to be someone who has the guts to actually stand up… I mean not at least in a war."

"What do you mean by that? I heard he’s ruthless and got some information about what he did with the police chief, he literally popped out his eyes with his fingers." Emmanuel said as he sipped some wine. "That’s something that we do. Seeing a gangster doing things like this only tells one thing to us… that he’s dangerous, that he’s somebody who can’t be controlled, not even by law enforcement."

Marco chuckled again. "It’s just because of his connections. I mean, I never actually saw him do things, only heard it. He is always trying to be somebody intimidating… yeah, he always tries to look like someone who actually is not." Marco said as he thought about it. freeweɓnøvel.com

He never saw James actually do anything bad, of course, he heard about things, but still, he was more worried about Hector and the others than James himself.

"Then why did you betray him?" Emmanuel asked as he stared at Marco, the first time his expression looked like he was doubting whether Marco was actually a good choice to work with.

"Because he would’ve done the same." Marco said as he looked into Emmanuel’s eyes. "He started going down the path that only brings chaos. I don’t know if you ever heard the name Lucian."

Emmanuel’s eyes wavered slightly, and his left hand twitched when he heard the name. "Augustus?"

Marco noticed it and quickly knew they had a past. "Yes, that guy. He became paranoid and started killing off everybody that was close to him. I heard that he had a brother who he killed too, because he thought he would betray him, but I don’t know if that’s true… but what I do know is that James started showing signs that he would do the same." He paused. "Not even talking about that he pulled out of the market without letting us know… what is that if not a betrayal?" He smiled, but Emmanuel seemed like he wasn’t listening, something caught his attention.

"James and Lucian had a connection?" He asked, his hand now in knuckles.

"Yeah, they did, but nobody knows the details… I mean, there is gossip going on that Lucian actually knelt before him and kissed his shoes, so someth—"

"What did you say?!" Emmanuel, for the first time, raised his voice the whole night, and his eyes stared at Marco. It was clear that he was frustrated, angry about something.

Marco was hesitant to even continue it, because Emmanuel wasn’t a fucking low-ranking nobody but actually one of the top men of the Sinatra, and he was already shitting himself.

"Yeah… but it’s just gossip, nobody knew if it actually happened or not…" He looked at him, but Emmanuel looked like he wanted more. "But they for sure had a connection, as Lucian left his daughter in James’s hands…"

"Huh…" Emmanuel stared at him without even blinking, and Marco knew that he just said something that dug him even more into the ground. "Lucian left his only daughter in the hands of James Bellini?"

"That’s not important, Lucian is already dead, and James is on the brink of collapsing under his own—"

"It is important!" Emmanuel now shouted, slapping the table with his fist. "He… sorry for my outburst." he said now with a smile. "But us and Lucian had a little past together."

Marco was now sweating even more, because he just wanted to… well, lick deep into Sinatra’s ass, or at least into Emmanuel’s, to get into a position where he is not an enemy… to seem like he can work with them, maybe even be a partner or an alliance. But now it all seemed vanishing as Emmanuel was behaving strangely.

Lucian was a man that you would never know what he’s going to do. He was a trickster, a scammer, a joker, who did everything to get what he wanted. Morality for him was not even an option, but he still moved in silence, in shadow… at least up until James showed up. That was the moment when he changed, that was the moment when his manic killing spree started, until he was arrested.

And that too was a joke.

Everybody was ready to see chaos, everybody was ready for the biggest shootout in the country’s history between a gangster and law enforcement. But no, nothing happened. Not even one shot was fired. Lucian was just simply put in cuffs and that was it. He was done for.

All the power, the influence he built up in the years, the empire of his, that he killed for and did the most outrageous things… collapsed without him even fighting for it.

The story of the richest and most influential gangster was over, and nobody knew why. Nobody knew what he did, or why he didn’t even try to run away, to fight for it… no, it was like the worst movie ending, the worst book ending, that people ever saw… but then another gossip started, as James got more power, more influence, and quickly replaced Lucian.

A gossip that Lucian did it to help James, did it to let James rise up. Like James was the sequel to Lucian’s story… that he will be the one that, in some kinda miracle way, will get Lucian out of the prison… but people got more shocked when Lucian died, because it didn’t make sense, just more gossip, more confusion like what could have happened?

But that nobody will ever know. Only James and only Lucian. They were the only ones who truly knew what was between us and what that whole thing really was… but even James, for sure, didn’t know that it was Lucian who killed Sinatra’s old boss.

Not just killed him but humiliated the whole cartel so much that for the first time in history they pledged an alliance.

But the revenge never happened.

With that in mind, Emmanuel’s reason to be stressed was clear. He was furious that James actually knew Lucian… not just knew him, but he left his daughter to him.

That’s more than friends or some kinda work partner. That’s blood. That’s brothers.

A connection that just made everything more important to them… to the cartel. They couldn’t just kill James, they had to take revenge for what Lucian did to them.

Yeah, they could finally take out someone close to Lucian… they could eliminate his sworn brother and the daughter he left behind.

They could erase the name forever.