No way this was happening. What were the fucking odds of sothing like this? Jas thought as he stood there, and it almost felt like his mind had stopped working for a mont, because what he was seeing and hearing did not feel real at all.
It felt impossible... and a tsunami?
That was sothing people only saw on the news from other countries, so far away tragedy that had nothing to do with this place.
But now suddenly an earthquake had started everything, shaking buildings, cracking roads, tearing the ground apart like it had been waiting for this mont for years, and before anyone could even understand what was happening a tsunami followed right after it.
It felt unreal and well Jas could not stop the thought that it was like his entire life had beco a magnet for disasters.
When he was still a college student he had been nothing more than a nobody, a broke kid trying to survive day by day back then the country had been peaceful. Nothing ever happened.
But the mont he stepped into the world of the mafia, the mont he beca part of it everything around him had started to collapse and now this.
An earthquake followed by a tsunami... like what the actual fuck.
It almost felt like every step he took in that world was followed by another catastrophe, as if fate itself had decided that chaos would walk beside him wherever he went.
And this ti the catastrophe was not sothing small.
This was sothing that could wipe out thousands of lives.
A disaster that would not only destroy buildings, businesses, and assets, but one that would crush families, erase hos, and leave behind nothing but ruins and grief.
"Jas, we need to get Finn and Ferucci!" Mike suddenly shouted, but the mont he looked directly at Jas, he realized that he was already thinking.
Even though blood was still running down his face, even though the situation around them was chaotic and terrifying, Jas was not frozen like the others.
While many of the guards and soldiers around them looked confused and stunned, trying to understand what was happening and what they should do next, Jas was already thinking through the situation step by step.
What to do. What needed to be done first. Who needed to move. And in the end, there was only one decision that made sense.
"Everybody who has family can leave and go find them! Make sure they are safe!" Jas ordered as he turned his head toward Ramirez."This goes for everyone here." His eyes shifted toward Mike. "Mike, you too. Go and find your family."
For a mont he paused, then his gaze moved across the group around him. The guards.The soldiers. The n who worked under him.
"Everyone!" Jas continued as he looked at each of them. "Go make sure the people you care about are alive!"
"I stay!" Hector said without hesitation as he stepped forward slightly and looked straight at Jas. "I already flew my family out of the country!"
There was no fear in his voice, only loyalty.
"I stay too!" Bella said as she moved closer to Jas and grabbed his hand tightly. "We are family!" She shouted as gently pulled Charlotte closer to them, wrapping an arm around the little girl and holding her near her side.
Charlotte looked small compared to the chaos around them, but Bella did not let go. Because in that mont, staying together was the only thing that felt certain in a world that suddenly seed ready to fall apart, and that was exactly why Jas said what he said and why he gave the order that surprised many of the n standing around him.
He did not say it out of panic, and he did not say it without thinking, because every word he spoke ca from a clear understanding of the situation they were now facing and the reality that disasters like this did not only destroy cities and buildings but also tear apart families.
That was why he ordered his n to go, not simply to leave the area but to spread the ssage to everyone else in the family, to make sure that every man, every worker, every soldier would hear the sa order and understand that they were not being forced to stay while their loved ones might be in danger sowhere in the city.
In a situation like this, when everyone already understood that thousands of people could have died, when the destruction of the earthquake and the tsunami had already reached a scale that nobody could truly asure yet, the truth beca sothing that nobody wanted to say out loud.
People had already died.
And because of that, the worst decision a leader could make in a mont like this would be to lock down his n, to keep his soldiers and workers beside him while their thoughts and their hearts were sowhere else entirely, thinking about their wives, their children, their parents, and the hos they had left behind.
A man who feared for his family could not think clearly, and a soldier who believed that his loved ones might be trapped under rubble or drowning sowhere in the chaos would never truly be present in the mont, because his mind would always return to the sa question again and again.
Are they alive?
Jas understood the question better than most people, because he had lived through enough pain in his own life to know what it felt like to lose control over the safety of the people you cared about.
That was why he did not chain them to their duty.
Instead he allowed them to move, to run if they needed to, to search through the chaos and make sure that the people they loved were still alive, because forcing them to stay would only build resentnt and fear while letting them go would create sothing far stronger.
Trust.
By giving that order Jas was not just allowing them to leave, he was sending a clear ssage to everyone who belonged to the family, a ssage that said he stood with them and not above them, that he did not see them as tools to be used during disaster but as people whose lives and families mattered just as much as the work they did for him.
And in a mont where the entire world seed to be shaking and breaking apart, that ssage carried more than any order shouted in anger or fear, because it reminded everyone that even in the middle of chaos there was still sothing that held them together.
They were not just soldiers, and they were not just workers who followed commands.
They were a family, and when disaster strikes, a family does not hold each other back with orders or chains, but instead allows each other to go and run toward the people they love.
And indeed, it was the right call that Jas made. As everybody left, everyone returned to their cars and made their way ho to their loved ones. And with that, Jas took one more step toward becoming the Don who is loved by many. And it wasn’t the end... he was about to beco not just a man loved by his own soldiers, but a man loved by many across the city.
While those people who were supposed to help to handle the situation were panicking.
"Send out the military, all the helicopters, all the planes we have in the air, send the boots on the ground, send everybody all over the country!"
"Sir, we don’t have enough, we need to focus on—"
"On what?!" William slamd the table as looked at the newly appointed vice president.
"Our supporters!" The man shouted, looking at William. "The capital is our main power and it always has been. If we don’t act, don’t save as many people as we can, we lose our support, we lose our power! We need to focus on what we build upon, not those who despise us!"
The one thing worse than disaster itself is the political motivation that cos with it.
Who do you save when you don’t have enough n?
Do you save those who support you, the main power of the governnt?
Or do you focus on saving those on the opposing side, in those villages, small cities, and towns that have been abandoned a long ti ago?
Questions that should never exist, but the cruelty of the world is that they are real.
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