Pretending to Be an Untouchable Crime Boss
Chapter 209 209: Leash.

The plan itself in words was simple, but James himself and Hector too knew that from the government side it would not be that simple. Like giving a whole ass forest to put on a government project will be hard because it will require ministries to work together to make it possible, and it will come out of nowhere.

Like suddenly launching a big project out of the public eye, even if it is a fraud from the beginning, will catch eyes,more importantly, the eyes of developers and entrepreneurs.

So from the government side, they will need to be tricky with it, at least if they accept it to go through with it. If they don't, then the whole plan makes no sense and they need to go through another one, because if we think about that, it's just too much.

They work with the government, but it's a deal between them and he is not controlling them, but making sure they both stay alive. And just ordering them to do this and to do that will be questioning the authority of both of them.

The Bellini family and the government are in harmonylike, they are on a scale, they are the same, but James himself, with the action and the deal, he shifted the balance toward himself, but not with just the deal, but the people themselves. The agents who started seeing his side as the better one, where they can actually survive, that too, the people themselves started to fuck up this harmony.

That will cause one thing.

If the peace treaty is over, he's going to be the biggest enemy in the government's eyes, and he knows very much that Linda and everyone else are ready to protect themselves and their authority and influence.

And they had more than James. They are ministers, they are the government, and even though they don't give a fuck about anything, until this whole cartel thing happened, up until Rafael died, they still have more power, they still have the upper hand. And now that it all happened, they have more power in the public than James.

Why?

Because the public once already experienced once called the bloodiest war where shooting happened every day, where the gangsters tried to do everything to try to eliminate the other one, to vanish them and that required shooting, bombing every single day… and the people, the public, had enough of that, like just now.

The biggest shooting happened in recent years, hundreds have died, which meant one thing… their only means to defend themselves is to have faith in the government, that they will actually do something to stop it, like they did in the past.

But this faith was fragile.

The government that did nothing in recent years to actually pump up the economy, to make more workplaces, to give people a chance to make a living, the same government that failed in every aspect… the same government they voted for abandoned them a long time ago. And with that, their hope and faith was literally equal to nothing… maybe a last drop of hope that they will once in their fucking lifetime actually do something, do one thing good.

To protect them from a nightmare, to protect their low life that they work hard every day to barely have the minimum… at least let them live, at least protect them.

They had this drop of faith and the president himself knew it too, and he decided to grab that last drop of hope and do something that will not just change the future but change everything else they have lived in the past years. He decided to step up and do something that will cause not rage but something deeper than that.

It will cause belief, to again believe that the government is for them. That they magically changed in a day and decided to actually be for their people after years… yeah, the president also had a card in his pocket, a card that will mean to the public that he is for them and peace shall finally come, while to the underworld this would mean more death, more war, and more suffering.

The president was ready to change the whole meaning of the underworld, the whole meaning of criminal organizations, but even the government itself.

"Then, first thing first is the new building for the washer, isn't it?" Finn asked as he looked at James.

"Yes, that." He said as he sat himself. "I will speak to Stephen about that. Until then, make sure the washer has more protection." He looked at Ramirez. "We need to protect it until Stephen gives us the building. If it's done, we're going to start with everything else."

"But what about the cartel… I mean, they are our enemy and we didn't even talk about them." Sophia said again from the side as she looked deep into James's eyes.

It was a very good point. They talked about everything but seemed to not talk about the most important thing, that they are under constant threat, and the cartel will want to retaliate. But somehow they didn't talk about that problem, but everything else.

Well, James himself had a point to not talk about it.

"We need to wait until the government says something to the public, and wait until they actually start seizing the assets we talked about, because we need to do this with them to not get in the crosshairs of the jurisdiction and everyone else." James explained.

They need to act together to make everything go smoothly and keep up the act.

"So Silas, Isabella, Marco, all their products will be burned by the government because it's mixed, so that's one point for them, because it will be the biggest bust in recent years." Hector said. "The money part and the assets fall to us, but to make it more believable we agreed on 50 percent."

"Yeah, we agreed on that to make it more believable because if we suddenly start using the assets of all of them, it will put us in the spotlight." James said as he sighed.

"Spotlight?" Dani asked.

"Yeah." James looked at him. "Not for the public but for the underworld. All their eyes now on Silas and the others, like I'm sure they are panicking about what's going to happen next because all they know right now is that it was the government that raided them, so they are panicking, planning, and waiting to see what's going to happen next. And if we just start using their routes, warehouses, and all their bullshit, that will be too noticeable." James explained it very well because exactly that was going on.

The underworld was panicking. All of them were thinking about the same: Who's going to be the next?

And the question was very real for them because they thought all of them were untouchable, more over Silas and his son, like the peace of bribery and connection. And it meant nothing. They died even though it was the cartel who killed him, Stephen and the others did it quickly to actually seem like it was them.

So it was panic. All the small players, the gangs, or the bigger ones who had the chance to become bigger, were panicking about this. Like, shit, they have no connection, barely anything. How the fuck are they going to survive if Silas just died like a dog?

Not just that, the market too was fucking empty with no supplier, which was also a big problem. The chance was there for them to act and step in to start selling and making millions, but how would they do that when the biggest families got busted?

Yeah, the fear was working perfectly. All of them were fucking shitting themselves and just waiting for the next step to see what's going to happen, which was also a big advantage for James and the family.

While everyone else is panicking and trying to save their asses, he can do whatever he wants in peace, and his only worry is the cartel and, well, the drug market, because even though the underworld is scared to step in, there are other players too.

Those billionaires who hide their business behind their legit companies. Those fuckers are the worst thing right now because they can step in the market and start dealing their bullshit, which is not White Magic but much worse than that.

The pills, the injections, the fucking street drugs that just make everyone's life miserable but it could actually work for them, to the users. Those who are addicted to White Magic will need something to help them, they need something that gives the same feeling, the boost to them.

Yeah, addicts need something that will give the same feeling, and those billionaires will be happy to serve them with the pills and all the bullshit.

At least that's what James and even Hector thought about, and well, one more person who made sure to put a leash on everybody…

The President.