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In Gotham with Mob Boss System
🕑 Added 2020-12-18 04:11:32 +0000 UTCChapter 13
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Pamela looks at James with an annoyed look on her face. "What?"
James smiles and explains it to her again. "You will be my date for the Wayne Welcoming Party."
"You crazy?" Asks Pamela with an annoyed tone. "Go and find someone else."
"Well, I don't know any other females who would be willing to go with me." Admits James with his smile still on his face even as he says something like that.
"Pffft!" Pamela has to hold in her laughter and cover her mouth as she hears that. "Hahahaha… You? No date? Really?"
James still has a smile on his face. Unbothered by what Pamela says, but it is the truth, he has been here for only about a year and has been too busy to get a woman or even associate with them about anything more than in a professional way. So he only has gotten to know Pamela… he honestly didn't even think of this. Well in his defense there are way more important things to think about than that.
"Wait, you are serious?!!" Questions Pamela, still not believing her ears. While James wouldn't be considered someone handsome, he isn't overly bad looking, and his glasses make him seem harmless… also he is filthy rich, so that makes him way more handsome in the eyes of any woman.
"Anyway, you will be coming with me to the party." Says James, reminding her once more.
"Hey, don't say it like it's a fact." Refutes Pamela, her eyes narrowing at that. She can see that James is making it seem like it has been already decided. "You don't get to choose for me."
James looks at her questionably. "So you won't do it?"
"I am busy with work." Reasons Pamela.
"I will give you ten thousand dollars, tax-free." Offers James and before he can say anymore...
"Okay, I am coming." Pamela changes her decision quickly. She then twirls her red hair, she is wearing a lab coat and glasses. So nothing to enhance her beauty, but she is naturally beautiful… and she knows that. As she takes off her glasses, sits on Jason's desk, and grabs him by his collar, she bites her lip and says. "You are so sexy… wanna get married?"
James snorts at that. "Yeah, but we will have to sign a prenup."
Immediately Pamela's face changes into a disinterested one. "Oh… okay…"
She then gets up from her desk and puts her glasses back on. Jason only slightly chuckles at that. Pamela truly is something else, she doesn't even hide that she is after the money.
James just pushes up his glasses. "Anyway, we should look into something else."
"What would that be?" Asks Pamela as she looks around to find anything interesting in James' office, but it is boring… kind of like him. "You want me to seduce the handsome Wayne or something like that?"
"Nah, doubt you could seduce him now." Says James, a mysterious smile on his face. "But I do need you for something else…"
"Have me take care of your 'needs'?" Guesses Pamela, once she sees the mysterious look on James' face.
He looks at her with a deadpan look. "No…"
"Why? Have you built a robot that takes care of them?" Asks Pamela once more.
"You talk a lot…" Criticizes James, his eyes narrowing slightly at Pamela. This makes her straighten her back and go back to being serious now as that is enough games for them now. "Wear something nice and fancy."
He then takes a roll of cash from under his desk and throws it towards her. She catches it and by the thickness of it can tell that it's around 5000 dollars.
"You will get the rest after the job is done." Says James.
"I will need extra if you wanna have me act all lovey-dovey." Informs Pamela.
James raises a questioning eyebrow at that. "You are expensive."
"Hey! Don't make it sound like I am a pr*stitute." Says Pamela, with a slightly annoyed look on her face.
James just sighs at this. "Not to mention high maintenance."
Pamela pouts at that and walks away in annoyance.
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Evening comes by and Bruce Wayne is in his mansion welcoming many guests that have come to see him. Many of them being very influential people.
"Bruce, you should be careful around some people." Whispers Philip Kane, Bruce's maternal uncle and the man who was in charge of Wayne Enterprises while Bruce was away. "Gotham is a city of people with masks on them."
Bruce nods at that but has a smile on his face while looking at the guests. "Don't worry uncle, I know how to take care of myself."
Philip nods at that and Bruce then goes to mingle with some other high standing people. As he walks, he sees one of the groups where many rich people seem to be gravitating.
He curiously stands to the side with a glass of wine in his hand and observes the group. He saw a seemingly weak man wearing glasses. Though many others couldn't see it, Bruce could, the man's movement and physical structure aren't as weak as it seems.
But still, the confident exterior he had was quite convincing. Bruce admits that the man's body language is unreadable. He doesn't seem to be expressing anything.
James Viti… a very suspicious last name. But he is known as a billionaire who gives back to the community and he is very gifted and smart. Building a company that could challenge Wayne Enterprises should only be possible by doing some dirty things. But even after all the investigations, James has nothing to hide apparently.
Still, Bruce keeps looking at the man and the way he walks, talks, and moves. Investigating everything the man does, though others couldn't see it, and called the man a genius businessman. Bruce's gut still told him that there is something rotten about James.
Still, he doesn't believe in superstition and won't confront the man yet. He has already just made the debut as Batman, and he is nothing more than a rumor now. But he needs to be more than that to even try going after someone like Jason Viti…
"An interesting man, isn't he?" Says a feminine voice next to him, startling Bruce slightly.
'What?!! I didn't notice her at all!' Wonders Bruce as he looks at the woman who came to talk to him. She is wearing a green dress, she has blue eyes and red hair. A beautiful woman, so Bruce smiled and said. "Ah, yes, James Viti, he seems like quite the smart man."
"That wasn't what I was talking about." Says the woman, taking a sip of her glass of champagne.
"Oh? And what might you be talking about than miss…"
"Pamela… Pamela Isely…"
"Right, miss Pamela. What do you mean by interesting then?" Asks Bruce, acting as if he is kind of annoying having a woman in front of him talking about another man. So he cringes slightly as he asks that.
Pamela smiles at that, her eyes staring at James. "He feels more like a dangerous man than a harmless one… right?"
"Hm? Really?" Bruce acts confused by that. Even though he isn't confused at all, he knows exactly what she is talking about. 'Did she notice what I was doing?'
"Well, if you don't want to talk about it, then we won't." Says Pamela as she takes out a business card and gives it to Bruce. "Call me when you get curious."
She then walks away after that and doesn't say anything anymore.
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The party ends around midnight and James, together with Pamela are in the limousine riding away. When James with a smirk on his face looks outside as the other people set off too.
"Well, that was nice." Says James.
"Wow! You, a workaholic finding joy in anything but work? Wow… warn me before saying something like that or I will get a heart attack." Says Pamela with mock shock.
James chuckles at that, being in quite a happy mood at how the party went. He met some important people and got a read on all of them, he wonders if he should start holding parties like that too to find some new contacts.
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One month passes, and James uses this time to outbuy companies that started popping up.
It is said that Veela Express has ruined many small businesses. Which constitutes creating a monopoly. Many people have been noticing this… but this is just 'fair' competition in the market. Veela Corporations haven't done anything out of the law. Everything is legal, even buying the stock and shares of the competitors is a free game. Plus it was now called Dr. Freeze who bought the stocks and shares under his name and then sold them at random times in which lowered the price of the stock of the companies due to lowering its stock value.
That is when many shareholders of competitive companies decided to sell their shares when seeing this dangerous game James was playing. So they sold it to him who bought the shares at 3x the market price… which was so irregular every day now due to him using his overwhelming wealth to randomly fluctuate the stock prices of his competitors. Making the other stockholders feel unsafe due to the irregular changes and sell… lowering the value of the competitor's stock even more. This wouldn't work on bigger companies, but for those who just start, it's very effective against them.
Of course… this was all within the law… so nothing illegal going on here. James continued doing this till a bill was passed against something called Stock Fraud, which included a wide range of what James was doing.
James was on his couch lying down with an annoyed look on his face. He didn't expect Congress to react so fast. 'Weren't those old folk supposed to be incompetent who can't even get a decent bill passed as they feel that that as long as they don't allow an opposing party to pass a bill is a win for them.'
But what James was truly annoyed at was that Congress has called for a hearing...
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AUTHOR NOTE:
The MC is using a method of outbuying his enemy… like a certain company bought a competitor and was called to Congress on charges of infirmation stealing, monopoly, etc… especially with all the behind the scenes stock play.
P.S: Not saying any names, but also for legal purposes if it seems like I am talking or accusing someone this is just for entertainment purposes and any connection with real people or companies is just a coincidence.
