Pretending to Be an Untouchable Crime Boss-Chapter 179: Talk Marco.

The bullet went straight into Marco’s knee, shattering it, literally breaking it, and then into his shin, and his scream this time was now lighter, maybe because his body was already giving up on him.

"Questions huh?" James asked as he looked at Linda, who just stood there eyeing Marco’s knee. She couldn’t do anything to stop James, and she knew that even if he did something, the bullet would find her too. "Talk, my friend, say it... what you have for us."

But now he couldn’t talk at all. The blood was still coming from his mouth as well as from his ear and nose, and he didn’t even feel his lower half anymore. The bullet, the broken bones, and the bleach that they poured in his wound was doing its job.

"Talk, Marco, and I’ll let you live." James said in a voice that was calm but also reassuring, like he was telling the truth. "I will buy you a wheelchair and send you the fuck away to live your life. You will get a handicap spot, the benefits of being handicapped, it will be a good life, Marco." He squatted down, staring at Marco’s eyes, and there was no hope, no light anymore. He gave up, just how his body gave up on him. "Just talk, man, just talk."

Marco knew that he was lying, and he would kill him the second he said what he knew. But shit... he hoped that maybe something would change in James and he would let him live, maybe all the beef, all the death between the two fights would be erased from their memory, and he could fly out of the country, find a woman, and make a happy family... yeah, maybe.

"I-it... w-was a deal..." He said, stuttering his words, almost as quiet as a whisper, but James heard it clearly.

"Deal between you and the cartel, yeah, just nod to it."

Marco nodded to it.

"The deal was about drug routes?" He asked again as he stared at him, and Marco nodded again.

James looked to the side at Linda, who wasn’t shocked about it because they already knew this much, that the cartel’s real goal is to seize all the drug routes in the country and get their product in.

"What about Isabella’s men, are they now working for Sinatra?" Benjamin asked as he stepped closer.

Marco nodded again, and his answer just made everything worse, because it meant they already have a great number of manpower in the city.

"Who is the next on the kill list?" Linda asked.

He was in silence for a few seconds, getting everything together, his last power to be able to answer it. "S-Sop...hia, Damian."

"Fuck... they really want a full blown war." Bejamin said as he shook his head and sat down on the chair. "Damian barely has any people, at least not thousands."

"Sophia too." James said. "And she hasn’t contacted me in a long time." James remembered that when he asked where she was, Hector said that she is killing off some gangs, but it doesn’t make any sense, who is she killing off, but moreover the question about the cartel.

Why would they attack him first when there are others who barely have any manpower and connections? They could easily wipe them out and seize all of their assets, maybe even their men who would join them out of fear, but no, they attacked James first and also killed off Carter... yeah, that motherfucker...

"What about Carter? They killed him, but why?" James asked, but Marco was at the end of it. He was barely breathing, and his eyes were closed down. "Marco!" He slapped him once and his eyes opened a little. "Carter made a deal with them, yes?"

He nodded again, and now it all came together.

"So Takoi and Carter, they wanted to fight against the mafia, but their connection was in that they hated you the most, especially after you beat the shit out of Takoi." Stephen started from the back. "So they sent the police to kill you, but it went horribly wrong, and they panicked."

"That’s when Carter used the last card in his pocket... the cartel." Linda finished it off. "But still, it doesn’t make any sense. He fights against criminals with Takoi but reaches out to the cartel?"

"He is a politician, after all." Benjamin joined in. "I mean, the fight against criminals was just an act. He himself was a criminal, stealing all kinds of funds, and he himself sniffed White Magic. Maybe with the cartel, he wanted to control all of it, like you wanted with James, the DTA."

Yeah, it was a scenario that could actually be happening, but James thought about something else.

"I think he wanted to use the cartel to slowly pour into the government, like in Dennus." He said as he looked at Benjamin. "It would be easy if the vice president himself is helping them."

"Fucking hell, it makes sense..." Benjamin said as he thought about it. "And we wouldn’t even notice it..."

Silence fell as they all realized that that might have already happened and cartel members are already in the government, even in their agencies.

The cartel was a genius, especially the Sinatra, because in Dennus they literally bribed interns, and people who just started to work at all kinds of ministries. It didn’t matter if it was only a cleaner, an intern, or a low-ranking member... it was already a step toward getting more and more people. Slowly they started going up the ladder, even if it was laughable.

Mayor, governors, ministers... they slowly got their hands on influential people, but it was just the beginning of it and as time went on, somehow... who knows how they bribed a general of the armed forces.

From there, it was a party for them. Weapons, ammunition, all kinds of equipment they wanted, they got it, especially that it was the time when Dennus started their military reform and restructuring. They could easily steal some of the weapons without even being noticed, especially when the general covered it up for them.

But the problem was the public.

They can’t cause fear in millions of people, they can’t control that many, and with them, some of the politicians and members of the parliament were still fighting, and to this day fight against them... but their plan worked.

They got what they wanted.

But the thing was, Dennus was and still is a desperate country with desperate people, so yeah, they could get into the whole system within years... but not here... they needed somebody from the top.