Pretending to Be an Untouchable Crime Boss

"We are peacekeepers." Linda suddenly said. "What does a peacekeeper do to maintain the peace? They kill, they eliminate the problem to keep up the peace. That's where the fucking name came from, Edward." She looked at him. "What Benjamin said is true, we need to deal with the root of the problem, even if it means we need to tell the most outrageous lie, even if we need to look past the crimes James is doing or did, we need to be peacekeepers whose only focus is on the peace and not how the peace is being maintained."

Edward seemed to get the idea, he seemed to relax a bit, because his career was on the line the exact moment he met with James, and realized panic can do nothing in this situation. Even if he's fucking against all of it, there's no way out… he needs to flow with it, needs to not be a bitch that cries while he munched on the stolen fouds and built a career out of corruption.

"Fuck!" He shouted, and with momentum he sat the fuck back in his chair.

"But still, Edward had a point about social media and their faces." Benjamin said as he turned to Linda. "What the fuck are we going to do with it?"

Linda just smiled at him. "I wasn't just sitting on my ass doing nothing. I called everybody who could help us with Thomas, so don't worry about social media so much, nor any footage from the news and journalists."

"There's no way you can block everything." Edward said as he turned toward her.

"True, but what the government does best is our main weapon."

"What would that be?" Benjamin asked curiously.

"Spread misinformation and lies, control the narrative."

Edward chuckled at it. "Wow, what a plan… like shit, and they're going to believe it?"

"Not just believe it… but they will support it." She said once again.

Benjamin and Edward both looked confused as fuck, they didn't understand a word of what she was saying or implying by it.

"Tell us." Edward said as he glanced at the laptop, and the drone was still circling.

She waited a bit and thought about what to say and how to deliver the thing that was her and their main weapon, but she chose to just say it simply.

"The president himself will address the nation with all the cabinet members standing beside him."

Their brains seemed to short-circuit as Linda said it. They just stared at her with confusion… what the actual fuck had she just said to them? Because there was no way they heard it right, that the actual president would lie to the whole nation with the cabinet, the cabinet that they were also part of.

"Y-you said… what?" Edward said, his voice laced with every emotion he could just feel, while Benjamin was still in just pure disbelief and focus.

"The president will address what the fuck is happening, well just going to spread lies misinformation. And that's why there is no need to panic when we have the most influential man on our side in the country."

Benjamin was just mind-blown by the fact that the president was really doing this, because it was a whole other level to it.

This whole shit was on a whole other level, but this… that the president himself would address it and spread lies to make it clear and make the people believe that it was something else… was just unbelievable.

He thought maybe they would shut down the internet or something, maybe try to control the narrative only, but the president himself coming out... nah, he never thought about it in his wildest dreams, because it just gave James more and more influence,he could control the narrative with his action, he could control the president himself with it.

Yeah, he was starting to fucking regret that he was just a director of an agency… he wanted to be on the side of James as a Bellini.

On the other hand, Edward just tried to make sense of it. He thought he was dreaming that this was all just a play, a test, but no, it was real as a motherfucker. This was something that would put this whole operation on another level, on a level where there was no line of morality, no line of justice. Yeah, those lines were erased the moment they made a deal with James.

"I—I don't know how to react to it…" Edward said as he was still staring at her. "Like... I don't know."

"You don't need to. Just swallow the reality down, and that's it." Linda said. "Now call the operator to go to Marco's house. Thomas has already prepared a team to go there as fast as it's over to make it look like it was a raid." She exhaled as she leaned back in her chair.

"Can I smoke in here?" Benjamin suddenly asked.

"Give me one too." Edward said, while Linda got up and opened a window.

"Me too." She said, holding out her hand, and they all started smoking, but it was more like chain-smoking as Benjamin smoked that shit in a minute and lit another one just like Edward.

A pack was not enough for what was coming up... it wasn't enough for the craziness that Ferucci was going to deliver to them. Nah, a whole fucking tobacco store was needed for it.

They weren't ready for it, not emotionally, not mentally for the chaos that Ferucci alone would bring, not to mention the entire convoy of people heading to Marco's house.

"Are you ready?" Hector asked Ferucci through the radio.

He was already out the hatch looking forward. "I'm ready like a motherfucker!" He shouted, and Hector could hear the happiness in his voice… happiness in a situation where he could easily die.

But Hector was in the same state. He was happy about it. He wanted to fuck shit up, and the moment had finally come.

"Then good luck!" he said, and Hector's convoy slowed down, taking a different route toward the back of the house, while Ferucii's sped up, heading straight into the fire.

Peacekeepers... equipped with rocket launchers, lusting for blood... what a nice way to keep the peace.