Pretending to Be an Untouchable Crime Boss-Chapter 120: Chaos.

The family house, minutes after the robbery began on Minister Street.

"What?" James asked Charlotte as she was just staring at him while he was eating a good sandwich.

"Nothing…" She said but kept staring at him, which made James uncomfortable, so he put down the sandwich and stared back at her.

"Say it, darling."

"Darling?" She asked as she huffed and looked to the side.

She was clearly angry at him for something.

"If you just keep doing this, nothing is going to change. Just say what the problem is." James said as he leaned back in the chair, smiling at her.

She suddenly looked at him, looking at him so intently like he did something terrible.

"You said when you get better, you will get me a thing… and you better don't break your promise." She huffed.

Ohh, this is still about her birthday…

"And what if I'm still in bad shape, Charlotte? You need to think about other emotions."

"Still, a promise is a promise." She said, hopping down on the chair, but then turned around, trying to get a good look at James like she was taunting him.

James smiled, shaking his head. "Okay, tomorrow I'll take you shopping, whatever you want: cakes, chocolates, toys—"

"Really?!" Her eyes lit up in a second as she rushed to James, looking up at him.

"Yeah, really. For a whole day, you'll be with me, okay?"

Her smile got so big, and she started jumping up and down in her happiness. It was more that James would be with her than about her passed birthday.

"James, can you check the router? It says I don't have Wi-Fi." His mother came down from the stairs.

"Maybe the house is too big for one router, but I will check it." James said, grabbing up the sandwich once again.

"But it's strange…I also don't have a signal. I can't call anybody." She said, looking down at her phone. "And I have an appointment with a teacher today."

"Maybe an atomic bomb exploded in this shithole." James said, shaking his head, but then got hit by her mother.

"Don't speak bad before Charlotte!" She hit him once more in the shoulder. "And who would bomb us when we make enemies out of each other?" She laughed, going to the sink.

"True…" James said as he finished the sandwich and got out the phone. "Still, it is a possibility." He said as he looked on his phone. He didn't have either signal or Wi-Fi. "You were watching the news, didn't you? They didn't say anything about an outage or something?"

"No, only who died and how he died, but nothing about an outage." Erika shook her head.

Strange. I would understand the Wi-Fi, but no signal… that's kinda odd. He thought as he got up from his seat.

"I'm going to check my office, maybe the cable works." He said and went up. Of course, Charlotte followed him.

When James went in, he turned on his computer, which he didn't really use, but there was no internet either. He then, with Charlotte now in his hand, went toward the router and it was giving the signal that everything was fine.

"Charlotte, I give you a very important mission." James put her down.

"A mission?" She asked as she got over excited and started jumping up and down again.

"Yeah, go out and ask the guys if they have a signal, and then come back with the answer, okay?"

"Okie!" She said and with another word, sprinted toward the stairs.

Fuck this country, everything's ass. James sighed as he went back to the office and opened his safe. Apart from the money and the documents hidden, he pulled out a black box which contained two satellite phones.

He purchased them for times like this, because if there's no connection and something happens, he needs to reach the right guys. And those two phones had a hefty price on them. Two of them were five thousand and the service fee was hefty too, but of course, it was all covered by the shell company, so nobody will associate it to him… only if they really want to ping his ass.

He got one of them out and it was so dirty that he decided to clean it, so he got up, and went back down. As her mom saw them, she started to laugh, as the phone looked like the old brick ones.

"Are those from the 80s?"

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"This one is a life-saver. Connects to satellites like in sci-fi movies." He said, putting them on the counter.

"Ohh." Erika picked up one. "So heavy, but if this connects to a satellite, that's gotta be expensive."

"It's only for emergencies. Can you clean them with wet towels or something?" He asked as he sat back on the chair.

"Of course… but you already ditched Charlotte?"

"I sent her on a mission." James laughed then a very loud and ear-hurting sound came from outside. "Hundred percent some tuned moped." He laughed, but the noise just got more intense.

It was the sound of maybe a moped or some kind of dirty bike going through the street, but the thing is that it sounded like they stopped in front of the house.

"Hooligans?" Her mother asked.

"That can't be it's… a gated community…" James slowly got up from the chair and went toward the door and as he opened it, all hell let loose.

The bullets started impacting everything, the windows, the house walls. So many shots and so quickly. James immediately tried to close back the door, but bullets hit it too, so he just left it and sprinted toward his mother, who was already behind the counter ducking low.

"James!" She shouted as he grabbed her, trying to cover her.

Their only luck was James ordering the house to be as bulletproof as it could get. The window glass was bulletproof, as were all the doors that led outside the house. But still, hearing the bullets impacting the wall and the glass shattering as it caught the bullets was terrifying.

And it just kept coming.

The sound of it was so fast and loud, like it was a minigun firing, but after a couple of seconds, it went away, and what came next was the bodyguard opening fire. It was different, the sound of the ARs had more power in it as the whole street echoed with the gunfire.

And James was panicking as hell..

He thought that was it, they finally came for him, the police, the agencies, it was all a trick. Benjamin set him up. But as he thought about all the possibilities while covering his mother, the gunfire died down, and what followed were the shouts of the bodyguards outside, the screams.

However, his mother's quick breaths were more worrying to him, as she seemed to be having a panic attack.

"Mom, it's okay. Everything's okay." He said, grabbing her head.

Erika just looked at him with teary eyes and asked, "Where is Charlotte…?"

"Charlotte..?" He finally realized, he set her out.

His pulse quickened so much that he started to feel dizzy as he got up and walked toward the door. The whole world seemed to stop as he stepped out, and all he saw was blood, with some of his men lying on the ground while others tried to help them.

He looked around at the shot-up car and then saw Charlotte sitting beside one of the cars, her dress covered in blood.

His heart stopped as he saw her, Charlotte. His mind struggled to process what he was seeing. Was she…?