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In Gotham with Mob Boss System
🕑 Added 2020-12-04 20:52:52 +0000 UTCChapter 11
Title: Unreadable...
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If there is one thing that Pamela finds intriguing is her new boss. As someone that likes to know people that she surrounds herself with, especially the men. She tries to find as much as she can.
In the end, she sits in her new office with a frown on her face. During the last month that she has been working for him, she hasn't found not even one thing about her new boss. His last name is Viti so there was a possible connection with the Viti Mafia family from Chicago. But there was no correlation between them, there was no legal record of him being in any way connected to them.
Even his past is suspicious to her as he was an orphan boy who luckily inherited a run-down apartment building after his real parents left it behind and no one else was there to inherit it.
'His parents were drug addicts.' Concludes Pamela as she looks through the police records that she got her hands on by using her hormone pill on the Chief of Police. 'Strange… so strange…'
Though, she didn't find anything wrong with the papers. What boggled her is the way James acts.
"Pamela, the Director is asking for you." Comes a voice through the radio-like speaker next to her desk.
"Coming." She answers, getting up while deciding to go and meet the man who has been the root of many nights of unrest.
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When she enters his office, she is slightly weirded out by it like always. She knows that even as a billionaire, James has a very simple office, with a desk, a painting of a tiger behind him, and a bookshelf to the side.
On the shelf, there were many books, most of which consisted of different branches of science, from biochemistry to robotics.
Still, Pamela only pays a split glance to the books and concentrates on the man in front of her.
Just like usual, her heart starts beating faster when she looks at his eyes staring at her. She can't help herself, the mystery of the man allures her. It makes her mind cloudy and her body reacts in strange ways when around him.
"Well, hello there Pamela." Says the man in front of her. His voice calm and steady, he interlocks his fingers, and his eyes almost shine in amusement as he looks at her blue ones. "I see that you are as curious as always."
As soon as he says that, Pamela gets her head out of the clouds. By what James said she can understand that he already seems to know that she is digging into his past.
"I am sorry sir." Apologizes Pamela, though she didn't mean it.
"No problem Pamela." Says James, seemingly unbothered by the intrusion in privacy. "You are special to me, so little things like this won't ruin the relationship between us."
The way that James said that makes it seem like he is insinuating something there. Pamela's lips tilt up in an almost unnoticeable smile. She knows best that James is not looking for any kind of relationship, he is just joking around.
"C'mon now 'Director', if you keep saying things like that it will make a girl like me think that I have a chance." Jokingly says Pamela, slightly laughing.
"Don't you?" Asks James, a small smile apparent of his amusement at the situation.
"Sorry, but I can't keep my hopes up in that situation." Abdicates Pamela, the smile on her face now being more notable. She can't say that she doesn't enjoy the little talks with James that she has, he always knows what to say best.
But she also knows that a man like that comes with a lot of baggage.
"Well, that is a shame." Says James almost regrettably. "Anyway, let's get to the real reason I called you here."
Pamela stands straighter as she hears that. Knowing that Jason stopped flirting around now.
"You are getting promoted." Says Jason, and Pamela's eyes widen at this slightly. After all, she is one of the lead scientists in the company already, and going up meant only one thing. She was becoming the head scientist in Veela Corp.
"I see…" That is all she says, as she couldn't read what James was thinking. Dr. Freeze as he was called now, was already the lead scientist and has done good, putting out dozens of successful medical products.
In the end, though she doesn't ask anything about Dr. Freeze, even if she might be somewhat nosy. She knows the limits of what she should ask.
"Also, I want you to work on this." Says James as he pulls out a small glass vial about the size of a finger. Inside it, there was some black, liquid-like worm that withers inside. "This is a mechanical muscle fiber, in a way an artificial muscle."
"I will get right into it." Says Pamela, as she too was interested in what the thing in the small vial was. But once again, she knows better than to ask where he got it from.
"Thanks, now you can go back to your work Pamela." Says James, quietly dismissed her.
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When Pamela walks outside of her boss's office, she has a smile on her face. After all, she just scored a new thing to study, and James put quite some importance on it.
'This thing seems out of this world. Never has there been such a thing reported in this world.' Contemplates Pamela, now she wants to know where her boss got this from. But she isn't brave enough to ask… but she will investigate him as she has done for the last couple of months.
Also weirdly, James didn't seem to mind the investigations going on.
To Pamela, James is a good man that she would've mind dating. At least if he wasn't so unreadable, she can't see into his psyche at all.
Most of the time she can't tell what he is even thinking anymore. Is he angry? Is he sad? Is he stressed? She never knows.
He is rich and has everything a woman would want in a man. Though she will be the first one to admit that the mystery of James is also something attractive… to her it is also scary. She knows how an unpredictable man can be, and she especially doesn't want to end up like her mother… dead with her body buried in her backyard, below the flowers that she loved so much.
Pamela shakes her head at this as she goes back to her lab below ground. Her mind still lingering on the man who always seemed to be the core of her thoughts.
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After Pamela left his office, Jason had a slight smile on his face. Countless thoughts moving through his head at an unimaginable speed.
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-Jason POV-
Hmmm, she is truly useful, she investigates me and helps me build counters in case someone else decides to do the same way of investigating.
She truly is smart, she has unknowingly helped me a lot to cover my background as the child of a notorious Mafia Family.
