Chapter 246 - More Plans (3)

4 April, Warren Gong's Villa, City K

"Fine," was the loud response before she stood up and stalked out of the room.

Warren turned and said "Gentleman, one of you need to follow my sister home. Plus, I need you to ensure that all her calls to my wife and daughter are blocked. They all are to go through my assistant or myself."

"Boss," responded one "She should not be so disrespectful…"

"Gentleman, she has her warning. Bring my sister has saved her to date, but even I have a point when it comes to my female relatives, like all of you do that once it is crossed it does not save them. She has pushed and pushed, and I have had enough, and she keeps going I will deal with her." Warren paused and looked at his desk before saying "When it is time to head off for our meeting, someone needs to come and get me. Now go."

"Yes boss" was the prompt response.

Once everyone left the room Warren slumped down behind his desk. Dealing with her was a stress that he did not need at this moment. Picking up the papers, he quickly signed off on the legitimate business doc.u.ments, as there was little to worry about with them.

He sat and pondered the information coming through to him about The Devil. Had he and the elites within the cartel made the wrong decision? While they knew of their involvement with various Islamic groups, which they honestly spoke about in their meetings and their verification confirmed it, to him something did not seem quite right.

It felt as if the cartel was being used by the Devil for his purpose, rather than being the collaboration that had been proposed. The question was, could they pull out without jeopardising their position? At present their activities were being less hampered by the authorities, leading to increased money particularly from international smuggling activities with the help of the Devil and his associates.

The money made from the various activities was such that he risked someone attempting to overthrow him. Most likely that would come from his two uncles and their sons who converted his position. They seemed to think that the head of the cartel was a position that simply went to someone in the family. The problem was, unlike those lily-white people who were just like his sister. They felt it was their right to gain a huge share of the profits from and have a senior position within the cartel without earning it.

He had started at the bottom, and worked his way up the ranks, earning the respect of everyone else. He had dirtied his hands, actively participating in smuggling, drug running, extortion, and where necessary killing people, all for the cartel's benefit. He earnt the respect of both his father and grandfather before their deaths in that he knew what was required for the cartel to survive. Those idiots had no idea, and it would fall apart in weeks if they gained any power.

Pulling out some loose paper and the pad he used for writing when he wanted no one to know what was happening Warren, drawing on his knowledge from the Business and Law Degree his father insisted he complete, started to make notes about the situation. The old maximum that was rammed if it was not written down, it did not happen made sure that he needed to doc.u.ment everything he could. If things went bad, he needed any protection he could, not only for the cartel but his legitimate businesses.

While there would not be enough time to doc.u.ment everything, he started with doc.u.menting everything he could recall from the initial phases of striking the deal to work together. As he started to write Warren realised that this was going to be a long process, and more importantly he needed to hide this in a way where no one would locate it. Keeping it electronically was a risk as despite the security he had he was concerned that it could be hacked and putting it into his safe would ensure that it was found. While there was a couple of secret draws in his desk, various people knew where one or more of them were. However, given he had a level of legitimate business files in the filing cabinet, he could hide a page here and there, protecting the information.

He slowly worked through doc.u.menting each and everything he could recall about the initial approach. The interesting thing he realised was his youngest cousin James was the one who spearheaded the introduction. On writing that down, Warren paused. Did that idiot cousin do this to undermine him, and if things go bad, step in attempting to take over his position? That required investigation, because if it was the case he would have to deal with him once and for all to ensure the message was sent to everyone, even being family of the cartel head would not save you if you harmed the cartel through your actions.

Looking through what he had written, Warren realised that he had written down that James' initial contact was through dark web chatrooms. Of all his cousins and the rest of the family within the cartel, James was the most computer savvy of the lot. Unlike the rest of them, he has some sense of being careful on the internet, and that made the fact that the Devil and his minions contacted the cartel through him somewhat suspicious to him. Why go for the most computer savvy member of the Gong family involve in the cartel rather than someone who had no computer sense? Was the Devil and his minions involved in the information technology business, making it the obvious way for them to act, or was it designed to be an action that was to misdirect? That needed careful investigation.

Before he could ponder the situation more, there was a knock on the door, and a voice from outside said "Boss, it is time for the meeting."

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