Pretending to Be an Untouchable Crime Boss-Chapter 127: Last Thread.

"Power to do so?" Linda asked back, but James just hung up the phone on her.

He clearly was mocking her, clearly saying that the government that was supposed to serve and protect the people who voted for them, could not do shit, without him, with the crime that rooted deep within the whole system.

But she didn't get angry, didn't get frustrated by it, no, she knew that it was true, that he is the only one that can actually do something.

"I hope you fucking die at the end of it…" She whispered as leaned back in her chair.

"Who was that?" Bella asked James as she sat next to him.

He turned toward her, but he was still debating inside of him to actually trust her or this whole love and obsession was an act to get close to him, to think she could never stab him in the back, but at the same time he had a great idea, if he actually tells her, and something happens with Linda, then it would be clear how that happened.

"It was Linda, the Justice Minister, she helped with mom and Charlotte." He said to her, and Bella was clearly confused by it as she immediately looked down.

"What?" James asked her.

She put her hands together before looking up to him. "It's just strange, seeing it like… how can you trust her? I mean you beat her up and then threatened her family, and you just trust her with yours?"

Well, it was true that nobody else would trust Linda, for several reasons one being a high-ranking minister but in James's place it was not an option to not trust her.

"That's how good connections are made." He smiled a bit. "I almost died, because her fucked up plans, and I beat the shit out of her, and threatened her family, we can trust each other because of all of this, and even if she does something she knows what would happen." He said looking out the window then back to Bella. "But to be sure nothing happens with them I am going to send you after them."

"What…?"

"Charlotte loves you, and she needs someone to be with her, someone she actually looks up to as a mother figure, and that's you." He said. "So when they are finally in a house, you are going to go after them and stay and protect them. After all this shit is over, we can reunite."

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"Reunite?" She asked, her voice was laced with concern and worry. "James, if a war breaks out, it wouldn't take days, but weeks and months." She grabbed his hand. "I am here because of you, because you saved me, you can't just throw me awa—"

"I never said be at my side, I never said to take loyalty, never said to fall in love with me nor said I need somebody to love." James's eyes were piercing through her, it was so distant like he didn't care about anything, only to kill them. "You work under me, you took loyalty on your own and fell in love on your own, so as your boss, you are going to do what I order you, it's clear isn't it?"

His voice too, was a voice that Bella never heard, it was like Bella was just another piece of soldier, someone alive that can be tossed, that does not matter too much.

"No!" She shouted. "I am your girlfriend and your—"

James put up his hand and smiled as he shook her hand. "I told you to decide, do you want to be my soldier or my lover?" He looked at her. "You said both, but there isn't an option like that, Bella, and there never will be one. You know why?" He asked as Bella's tears were falling.

"Why?"

"Because I am the one that decides what is your role, not you, you put your life into my hands, and these hands—" He put up his hand. "—is the one that decides what you are going to be…and I said you are going to go after my mother and Charlotte and be there with them, be there to protect and look after them."

She was in silence as she realized what was behind James's words, she realized that he doesn't want to throw her away, no…

"Y-you think you're going to die?" She asked him and for a second she saw James's expression change.

"Maybe it's all a bad dream, maybe I'm in a coma, maybe, I'm just sitting in a psychiatric hospital imagining and hallucinating all of it like in that movie… and just maybe it's all real and I die." He looked at her. "Whatever it would be, I'm ready for it, to protect my family, I'm ready to die to know they are safe, I'm ready to die knowing I did all my best in life, I tried to live as a good citizen but life showed me another path. At least I know I tried it."

Yeah, he finally accepted all of it, he was finally ready for it, ready for it, to die. Maybe this was the last thread that kept him in place, his family that was still with him, but now that they are already in a plane flying toward a country that he knows would protect them, that thread was cut.

Now he is alone without anyone that he truly loves that much, now he's ready to show the country, the world, what he is actually capable of, he's ready to show off all the times he backed down, all the times he wanted to be moral and kept all the rage, the anger deep within him, he was ready to unleash all of it.

"We are here, sir." The driver's voice came before Bella could even react to what James said.

She wanted to say so many things, but deep within she knew too… this life wasn't about sweetness and love. On her own, she lived in a bubble too, thinking she could change James, that she could live in peace with him and make a family together. But now… this life wasn't about that.

It's about power, and what comes with it… blood and death.