Pretending to Be an Untouchable Crime Boss
Chapter 210 210: Loyalty Above All.

"Then we are all done talking." James said as he looked at Dani. "Prepare the money to be transferred to the new washer. I will call you up… Ramirez." He looked at him. "Make sure everyone in the family has protected the warehouse, the washer itself, and every single building we have. If there is too much, then only defend the most important ones. You too, Hector, try to calm and be ready if something is going to happen." He said as he stood up. "Sophia, you just get familiar with the family first, and make a timeline with your information, who is important and who is not. If it's done, then start acting on it. That's it. I will talk about everything else with Linda and the others when time comes. Until then, just try to survive, okay?"

They all nodded as he finished it and then just walked out of the office in the biggest calmness while the others all remained inside.

"That was… crazy." Dani said as he let out a long breath and shook his head.

"Be grateful you are still alive." Hector laughed as he looked at him and saw he was stressed the fuck out about this whole thing.

"Yeah, you fuck up once, you gone, my friend." Finn said as he chuckled at it, but Dani didn't find it that funny.

This was his first time seeing James in a position where he was really a boss. Like before, there weren't any meetings or talks, Hector was the middleman all the time and out of nowhere, at the first meeting, he was shitting himself, because it was on a whole other level than he thought it would be.

He knew Rafael died, and Hans too, the closest people to James, heard what he'd done at the police station. But this was too much. Like his whole demeanor and personality just took a 360 and changed into something far worse than people actually whispered about him… and now he had no chance to fuck up, because he would die.

"How can somebody change this much?" He asked as he looked at Hector, because he's the one who was always there with him through all of this bullshit, the death, the shooting, the suffering. Yeah, the answer to the change… the suffering James went through, not just emotionally and mentally but in psycho too.

In the hospital for weeks in a coma, then barely able to walk, and till this day his leg still hurts.

This would be too much to everyone mixed with the death of his younger brother, the death of Hans, and now Ferucci in a coma in the hospital. Not even talking about the mental state of him.

The only thing Hector could think about is how broken he is.

Like there is no way James is still sane like how he was back in the day, when he didn't take big steps, didn't kill, he just used his name to be able to get things. But now he was ready to kill, ready to be killed for the cause. It's something that would put weight on everybody, but for him, it visibly broke him. He became something that everyone wanted him to be.

The Bellini that is untouchable, and in Hector's mind, it was what he became. From a youngster gangster to the rock-hard one, that has no emotion, no mercy to those who step into his way.

He will kill, he will torture, and he will suffer with his enemies.

"I don't think he changed." Finn said as he leaned back and crossed his legs.

"Are you blind or what?" Dani asked as he looked at him with disbelief.

"I think it's just the real him. Like he shed off the false skin he wore and finally showed the real self, if that makes sense."

"It don't make any fucking sense, you talking about bullshit." Dani said. "What skin are you—"

A click. It was fast and precise as Finn drew his weapon out, pointing it exactly at Dani's head, and he froze, staring at the gun, while the others were just still sitting in silence, except Sophia, she too got a little surprised by it.

It was her first time between the highest ranking in the family, and it was like a fucking friend group rather than keeping the truth of a mafia structure. Like yeah, there were bosses and higher members, but all of them were behaving like friends…

"First, Dani is outranking you every way, so be respectful." Finn said as he still aimed the gun to his head.

"I think that's false…" Sophia spoke, and Finn looked at her as he clicked back the safety and put away the gun.

"False?" He asked as he eyed her.

That was the first time she felt the smallest in the room, as everybody was staring at him like the family heart, the machine of it, the high-ranking members who can easily kill, and James wouldn't have a problem with it… well, at least in her mind at that moment.

Killing her was not an option to everyone because she is a Bellini, another high-ranking member, even if she still didn't understand it that much, what it means.

"I mean, if we would operate in a mafia structure, Dani would be the treasurer, or like he is now, the banker which means he's closest to the boss. And that would mean he outrank you…" She said, "In that sense, Hector is the underboss and the consigliere of James, holding the highest position in the family after James himself. But still, Dani is the heart of all things with the money. If he does something wrong, it can fuck up everyone. So you, Finn, in that sense you're the operations chief, while me a branch leader, and Ramirez the capo…"

They stayed in silence a bit because, well, in that sense it was true. Without Dani and his numbers and money management, the family would be in ruin. He is the one that sources everything out and not just counts the money, but plans the money management in the family. If he says there isn't enough money for something, that can shake the whole family structure.

And the only person he reports to is James.

In that sense, it made sense that Dani outranked Finn, but it was a hard thing to actually tell, because Finn too is a key element for the family to keep it running.

"I think in this family all of this doesn't make any sense." Ramirez suddenly spoke. "I mean, the only person that we thank for our life and our good place is only James, and people only see him as the hope, as the one and only who can tell us and them what to do. So it doesn't make any sense who outranks who, because the only one that matters is James, we just adjust ourselves to him."

"But everything needs a structure to be able to work. Without us, there isn't a family that can be running like this." Hector said as he stood up. "We are the family, and we only see James as the boss, so don't start arguing about authority, because that would mean we already starting to think we have authority over each other, but in reality, the only one that does is James, and he already picked who we are, so we stay to that." He looked at everybody. "If anybody wants to question authority, then he dies, that's it."

They all just kept their heads down, and Finn too realized he went entirely overboard with the gun, pulling it on Dani. And maybe he just made himself the spotlight with that move that can look very bad on him.

What if somebody starts to question his loyalty? What if somebody thinks he wants to have more and more?

That would be outrageous, and he would be killed in a second, but not just him, his family too, especially if James misunderstands this situation.

"Fuck… I'm sorry, Dani." He looked at him, and Dani just shook his head.

"We are all stressed, so it's nothing, man… just don't pull a gun on me next time, yeah?" He smiled, and Finn too, and that was it.

And Sophia just realized it even more, that this structure was really like a friendship.

In her family, that's nothing like this. Everybody had his position as a traditional mafia does, with daily reports. But here, it's like James just put the faith in everybody that they would do everything in their power to keep the family running, which just blew her mind away even more.

How can he trust them this much? What if they steal from him? What if they plot against him? Like there were hundreds of scenarios that could happen, because the chain of command is loose… or it's not loose at all.

This whole family is about faith, hope, and opportunity to those who were all suffering, as she just realized that all of these members, even Hector and Finn and the others all had their own sufferings, their own stories, and they were found by James and his actions.

If he hadn't shown up at the place where Hector was being tortured, or where Bella was caged, or where Ferucci was, or even at that ice cream shop where he met Hans, there would be no Bellini family.

There is loyalty between them, so much loyalty that she had never seen nor experienced in her life.

This family was really over the line, something that could last for decades.

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