Those 10 minutes seemed more like half an hour. James almost fell asleep as he sat in the chair, while the others were more patiently waiting and in the meantime thinking about more plans. But yeah, he finally woke up.
His whole body was still in pain, but he can clearly see up ahead… he could clearly see the eyes on him, the directors of the agencies staring him down, and well, on the side, he can see James, who was just fucking napping there.
Yeah, the guy he fucked over literally gave away everything about him, now was napping in a chair.
"Ohh, he's finally up." Benjamin said as he got up from his chair. "Marco, nice to meet you." He said as he smiled into his face, and well, Marco was just staring at him.
He was still dizzy, his head was still spinning like shit, but he knew exactly how fucked up he is. The deal which he made, the money was on his bank account, he was a step away from getting the fuck away in a safe spot, to just sit back and relax while the Bellini family is killed off, and out of nowhere, he was now sitting in a chair, chained down ready to be "questioned".
The life he had chosen finally caught up to him, but more so his fucked up decision to stab the back of the same person that made a name for him, that literally put Marco in a place where everybody in the underworld knew his name.
When the Circle was made, Marco was a nobody. Well, he was a gangster with Isabelle and the others too, but out of them, Victor was the most influential. Then, when James started doing his business, or more like Hector who did anything that James said to him, when he was drunk or just said it as a joke his name started to become bigger and bigger, and with him, the Circle too became a symbol in the underworld and in the eyes of the agencies.
Suddenly they respected Marco. They didn't act against him, they didn't do anything to arrest him and not even one gang or mafia crossed his way, because all of them feared James and his reputation, and they knew if they attacked Marco, James would take revenge on them… or at least they thought and because of that… it was the perfect time for Marco to build up more connections. Yeah, he leeched off on James's reputation and used the fact that they were in an alliance. With that, he could make deals, bribe people, more connections in the underworld and the government itself, and his life was on a straight line.
He was on the way to become somebody who was feared by himself and not just because he knew James, but then everything went to shit. Victor died, the key figure of the alliance whose idea was the whole thing. Then James himself was attacked and his brother died, the worst of the worst because Marco and Isabelle knew that it would mean war, it would mean chaos and instability in the Circle and in their connections if James started butchering the police and anyone in his way. And that would have meant their reputations too would go down with James, they would make the same enemies as him.
So they dipped and with that made the biggest mistake, because literally nobody gave a fuck about them. The moment everybody got the news that they parted ways from James, they became like a joke. Half of their connections immediately lost, everybody just looked at them as a joke.
Because it was a joke. Leaving the key figure that could elevate them to the top and over it was the biggest joke, and well, they realized it soon, too soon that James himself was the Circle, he himself was the figure of the underworld, everybody feared them because of him.
It was too late for it, and they began to lose connections, deals, lots of money, and even their own men. Dozens of them left the family of Marco and Isabelle, because at least they had some brain to realize that eventually James will come for them, and shit, they 100 percent will die.
But then it came like a gift from heaven, a connection, a person who came to them as if he was the last line that could save them. The cartel.
It was first a messenger that came to them out of nowhere, then Emmanuel himself came and started talking about business and how well they can work together, and this dumb motherfucker Marco and Isabelle too said yes to it. And now one of them is dead, and the other one is going to feel the kind of pain which is impossible to describe with words… yeah Thomas and Benjamin were ready to cause it as fast and as well as they can.
"James." Benjamin stepped to him first, tapping on his shoulder, and his eye shot open, and what he saw was Marco looking at him with those fucking eyes.
"How nice to see you, Marco." James said as he sat up slowly and stepped in front of him.
Marco just smirked as he looked up. "Yeah… you motherfucker." He spat down on the ground. "A rat, you fucking rat…" He said as he still smirked into James's eyes, who just laughed at him… laughed so good that even Benjamin started smiling for two reasons, he knew in any second James could lose his mind, and second, well, the laugh of James was so good that he couldn't stop himself from joining in.
For Marco, it was just worse, as now Benjamin and James laughed and just clowned on him.
"Well, you are going to suffer, Marco." James said as he held out his hand and tapped Marco's face. It wasn't a hard slap or anything like that, it was more like what a mother does… but from James, it was creepy.
With that, he just turned and sat back down, crossing his legs and just looking at Marco, while Benjamin and Thomas looked at each other and they started to work at least they wanted...