Pretending to Be an Untouchable Crime Boss-Chapter 151: Beginning of a New Era.

"Can you connect with the operator?" She asked Edward.

"Yes, why?" He asked as he pulled out a radio from his pocket.

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"They're going to attack the restaurant at 5th Street and Marco's coffee shops, so let's watch it first, how they do it and what lie we need to forge as quickly as possible." She explained, then looked at Thomas. "Go and plan the raid. We will inform you what exactly is happening and when to go."

Thomas nodded as he got up from the seat and walked out of the room, already on his phone.

"The 5th Street? Are they fucking crazy?" Edward asked as he sat down on the chair. "That's basically one of the busiest streets at night. There are fucking clubs everywhere, not just a restaurant."

"I already cleared the street as much as possible with the police, but they're only going to attack the restaurant and not beyond that." She explained to him, but still had worries it's not enough.

"My fucking god, they plan to set the whole city on fire…"

"It's better than the outcome that the cartel will bring us." She said, sitting down beside Edward, looking at the laptop. "Call the operator and go there." She said, and Edward did.

Within 3 minutes, the drone was already heading toward 5th Street and abandoning the convoy, and they just waited for something to happen.

5th Street was nothing like how it usually looked. There were not as many people there as it usually would be, but it was still a great number of civilians who would be caught in the crossfire if things went south.. but they needed to believe that James's men do their job correctly without a fuck-up or civilian deaths.

Minutes had passed while the drone was hovering still, nothing happened. There was no SUV pulling up, only Benjamin who burst through the door with a smile on his face and a fucking hamburger in his hands.

"Why do I have to hear from Thomas you're all watching it in 4K?" He asked as he looked at the laptop.

Linda and Edward got a little stunned by the fact he was eating a hamburger in the biggest calmness like nothing's happening out there.

"What did y'all find at Isabella's house?" Linda asked because Benjamin didn't tell too much about it through the phone.

"Nothing really." He said, taking a bite. "Dead body and the "message" which I have on me." He said and pulled out the knife from his belt.

Linda looked with confusion on her face as Benjamin handed her the knife.

"This is the message?" She asked, looking at it and seeing the capital B on it. It was definitely for James.

"I think James expected that the cartel would pull up to Isabella's house. Maybe we acted too fast with the raid, because that knife was in Isabella's head." He said. "I mean literally in his head like it's the fucking excalibur." He explained, taking another bite, and Linda immediately dropped the knife on the desk, looking with disgust at her hands.

Benjamin chuckled a bit. "Don't worry, it's already been cleaned."

"It was in her head!" She said as she reached for the hand sanitizer and put the whole bottle on her hand.

"Yeah… so the message was supposed to be to the cartel, but yeah I pulled it out… anyways we also found some documents with numbers and bank accounts."

"What about her drugs and warehouse?" Edward asked.

"She wasn't a typical gangster." Benjamin said as he took the last bite. "She dealt with information, secret documents and files, blackmailing, bribery, that's how she acquired her wealth. Of course she sold drugs, but it came from James." Benjamin explained to him.

"Yes, Isabella wasn't a big player in drug trades nor did she have a lot to her name." Linda said as she finally sat back to her seat. "But it is still good that she finally died. The only problem is those files she had left, because I'm sure it's now in James's hands…"

"My God, how good are they?" Edward threw his hand up. "So he becomes more influential and powerful, that's good!" He shook his head.

"Let's calm down, Edward." Benjamin said as he put his hand on his shoulder. "We work together now with him, so don't worry about it. You know the peace treaty for one year, he asked for it, so why would he use anything against us, against the government?" He smiled at him. "Just let's watch what's going to happen in peace and then we start working on the plans for the future."

"Only if we have a future..." Edward whispered.

"Oh, we have a great future ahead." Said Benjamin as he pulled a chair and sat down between them.

But even Linda was a little worried about it. The meeting went well, and now something big is happening, something that the city never saw, and they're going to make it look like it was actually them, the government who finally stepped up against crime… it could go south even in one misstep, it could destroy them forever, and the only person who would profit from it was none other than James himself.

"There it is!" Edward suddenly shouted, pointing to the screen then grabbed his radio. "Zoom on those black-out SUVs and keep watch on them!"

"So it begins." Benjamin said as he leaned forward, looking at the screen as the drone operator zoomed in on the SUVs that were turned to the 5th street.

But it wasn't just a shootout that would begin, not just a war behind the shadows against a cartel, it was a whole new era of gangsters and mafias.

A whole new era where the line between good and bad disappeared, where at the top, it wasn't just about power and money, but about understanding the consequences that came with it. The consequences are that, at the top, you weren't just a drug lord, but a force that could shift governments and shape a country's future.

The new era was here , the new era just began as those cars stopped before the restaurant.