Chapter 59
Sophie
Ilifted Trooper’s arm and climbed out of bed after trying my best to hold out, but this baby was seriously affecting my bladder control ability.
He didn’t even move in the slightest, which I figured he wouldn’t because it hadn’t been long since we’d both crashed.
My baby was exhausted. I saw it all over his body the second he’d arrived earlier. It made me smile when he confessed that he really hadn’t been sleeping much since I wasn’t there with him. It was hard to believe how quickly we’d both fallen, dependent on each other.
As my hand moved across my stomach, I glanced over my shoulder just before I entered the bathroom, carefully shutting the door so I could turn on the light.
I still wasn’t familiar with this place like I was with Trooper’s apartment and I didn’t want to run into something or fall. Once I peed, I worked my panties back up and washed my hands before drying them on the hand towel on the counter.
When I entered the room again, it took a minute for my eyes to adjust after having the lights on in the bathroom, so I stood still for a second, trying to give myself time before I headed back to the bed.
However, a feminine voice I knew for sure didn’t belong to my mother or Maddie stopped me dead in my tracks.
“Isn’t this cute? I bet you guys did some real intense fucking to knock him out like that. Is that why he’s out cold?”
I turned toward the bed, my eyes still trying to adjust to the darkness, but I clearly saw a figure standing over Trooper as he slept with a gun aimed at his head. But who was this woman?
“Who are you?” I questioned, trying my best to stay calm. As far as I knew, no one knew where we were.
“Oh, he didn’t tell you? Let’s wake him up so we can all have a little chat.”
My eyes finally adjusted to the light and I saw her face. She was a pretty woman, but dressed like a man in dark pants, a polo, and a jacket. The thing I focused on the most was the metal badge around her neck.
“You’re a cop?” I asked, not really meaning for the words to come out of my mouth.
She released a muffled laugh before she used her free hand to hit Trooper hard in the jaw. The punch she delivered caused him to jump up and reach for the gun which had been sitting on the table next to the bed but was now gone.
“What the fuck?” he groaned as his eyes moved from the woman to me. “Shit,” was the next thing out of his mouth, and again, his eyes were on me.
“Shit is right. I bet you weren’t expecting to see me here. Or maybe you were?” I heard amusement in her voice as she spoke.
“Turn on the lights, Sophie, let’s get acquainted,” she then said to me.
I didn’t move, which apparently pissed her off because she yelled this time.
“Turn the gotdamn light on.”
“Sophie, it’s okay, turn the light on, baby girl.” Trooper’s voice was calm, which was good because I was freaking out. I moved to the wall by the door and hit the switch.
Whoever this woman was smiled at me. “You’re even prettier in person. No wonder he wouldn’t fuck me. Why would he when he has you?” she snarled at Trooper then looked back at me.
His eyes were on me too, but I couldn’t read his expression and that worried me.
“So let’s get down to business,” she said, looking at Trooper again.
“Rogers and Allen are both dead, so I’m sure you know the whole story by now. Oh, and by the way, thank you for taking care of them for me. It probably wouldn’t have been a good idea for me to kill them, but I would have.”
“I ain’t do shit for you, I did it for her,” Trooper said, quickly moving his eyes from her to me, then focusing on her again. “Why the fuck are you even here?” he questioned.
“Wait, are you surprised?” she asked with a smug grin.
“I hope you didn’t think giving you a little head would somehow make me fall hopelessly in love with you.
I’m here because I can’t allow you to kill Harold.
I need him alive in order to take him to prison.
He’s my fast track case to becoming director, so here’s what I need from you.
Get your sexy ass out of bed and come with me.
” She turned toward me with a smile on her face.
“Get dressed, sweetheart. We have a flight to catch.”
Trooper looked my way and I could tell from the way his expression changed he knew he had really messed up. She had just told on him, and not only that, she was there to arrest him or whatever she planned on doing. Why on earth she needed me was what had me really confused.
“A flight? A flight where?”
“Back to New York. Trooper’s not your typical man.
He’s very loyal, but not really to anyone in particular other than you.
I need you to make him talk. If I can get him to confirm a few things for me, my case will be solid.
Oh, well him and your mother. She will also have to testify, but with the two of them, Harold Prescott will be going to prison. I can assure you of that.”
“You sound dumb as fuck for even saying that shit out loud. Do you really think you can take him down? The only way to stop him is to kill that muthafucker, and that’s exactly what’s going to happen.”
“Really? Because it seems to me like I’m the one calling the shots here. I don’t really see how you can change that.”
“He can’t, but I can.” Carlos’s voice flowed from the door just before I heard a gunshot and blood spattered out the back of her head.
Moving in slow motion, her body fell back and hit the wall before Trooper jumped out of bed and threw his arms around me.
“Go to the living room,” he said calmly after kissing me on the forehead, but I couldn’t move.
This was the second time I had been up close and personal with a potential dead body.
“Sophie, now!” This time, Trooper’s voice raised and I started toward the door, grabbing a pair of shorts in the chair next to it since I was only in a T-shirt and panties.
“What the hell is going on?” I heard Story say, just as he passed me and stopped at the bedroom door near Los and Trooper.
My mother and Maddie entered the living room at the same time, looking confused, and I slipped into my shorts before I sat down on the sofa, stuck in my head.
Carlos had just killed a cop, but what bothered me the most was Trooper had some type of relationship with her. Why was that the one thing that kept playing over and over in my head?
“You’re all set. The body is gone and they’re cleaning everything up now.” Trooper and I made eye contact briefly before he addressed Isaac.
“’Preciate that. Just tell me what you need,” Trooper said to him and glanced at me.
“It’s taken care of. You don’t owe me shit. In fact, I’m pretty sure I still owe you.”
“Nah, not at all. Let’s just call it even. I appreciate you though.”
“Same,” he said before he looked my way again and nodded. “Take care of her and I’ll see you next trip.”
Trooper walked him out and returned a few minutes later. We were finally alone. Maddie, my mother, Carlos, and Story had left on a jet to New York a few hours prior.
I tried everything in my power to go with them, but of course Trooper wasn’t having that, and my father backed him up, so here we were. Alone. His eyes were on me intently, waiting for me to react to everything that had gone on in the past few hours.
“Why did he do that for you and how does he even know how to?”
Trooper looked at me like he was debating on what to tell me before he finally answered.
“He did it because I helped him out with a situation he was in years ago, because of his family’s ties in illegal things.
He just knows shit, like I do, but that’s not really something you need to worry about.
So you ready to talk to me now?” Trooper asked as he sat on the glass table in front of my chair.
I was surprised it held his weight; it was stronger than it looked.
“Sophie?” This time his voice was pleading and I looked right at him.
“What do you want me to say?”
“Shit, anything. I know that was a lot, but…”
“But what, Trooper? Do you even know what’s bothering me the most?”
His hand moved down his face and I could tell that he was annoyed, but I didn’t care. First Orin, now a cop. Things weren’t as good as I thought they were.
“Yeah, I know why you sitting there with your lips all poked out, but you don’t need to. What you’re thinking ain’t what went down.”
“Oh, I’m sure I know what went down. You didn’t have sex with her. Well, at least not in the traditional sense. It was just head, right?” I glared at him and he looked at me, defeated.
“Look, you don’t have to understand it, but I thought I was doing what I needed to do.”
“So, that’s what you needed to do? Because looks to me like whatever your plan was didn’t work. She still showed up here waving a gun around and acting like she owned you.”
“At the time, it made sense. It was about you and that—”
“It was about me? Her sucking your dick was about me? Oh, we’re good then. As long as it was about me, I’m gucci.”
Trooper looked at me and the corners of his mouth turned up as a smirk spread across his face. It made me heated.
“You know what? I fucking hate you.”
I jumped up and was about to storm off, but he caught me in a bear hug.
“Yo, calm the fuck down, Sophie.”
Was his ass laughing? Now I was really pissed.
“Ay, stop fighting me. Your little ass ain’t strong enough to break free, so just stop trying,” Trooper said, getting serious all of a sudden. “I didn’t mean to laugh, but you know that shit be funny as fuck when you call yourself getting hood on me.”
“Trooper, please let me go.” I half smiled because he was right.
“I will in a minute, but look, my head wasn’t right.
There was a lot of shit going on. I had the feds trying to lock me and Los up.
William kept fucking with you and we had just found out the real reason Story got out.
It was a lot, so yeah, I did a dummy move and tried to contain her however I could.
I shouldn’t have, but I meant what I said.
It was about you. If it came down to keeping you safe, I’d let a million bitches suck my dick.
I’m not saying I’d enjoy it though, but I’d roll with it.
You might not want to hear that, but it’s true, and I ain’t making no apologies for that because I mean that shit. ”
“So what happens next time you feel like you’re backed into a corner? It happens again?”
“Maybe, depends on how sexy her lips are.”
Oh, hell no, he really had me bent. I elbowed him hard as I could in the ribs.
He flinched, but still didn’t let me go.
“I’m just fucking with you, chill out, Sophie. Real shit though, I fucked up and I know it, but at least I didn’t fuck her. You heard her say that, right? Can I get points for that? If not, will you at least grade on a curve?”
I glanced over my shoulder, and sure enough, he was smiling hard as hell.
I was seriously questioning his mental status, because for some reason he really thought that was okay.
“Will you please let me go?”
“You promise you not gon’ hit me and you’ll calm down?” he asked against my neck. I hated that I got turned on, but no matter what, he had that effect on me.
“I promise,” I stated calmly.
He chuckled first and mumbled, “Your lying ass” before he let me go and I smacked the shit outta him.
His eyes narrowed and his teeth clenched, but other than that, he didn’t move. “You good now?”
“I guess.” I shrugged then returned to my chair.
“Good, ’cause if you ever put your hands on me like that again, I’m fucking you up. Well, not until you have that baby, but I promise you, I’ll fight your ass like you’re a grown man, Sophie.”
“Trooper!” I yelled, surprised by his response.
“What, man? Didn’t anybody ever tell you don’t hit if your ass don’t expect to get hit back.”
He was so serious it made me laugh. Could this man be any sexier?
“Fine, but if you hit me, I’m telling my father,” I said, looking him right in the eyes.
He grinned then his expression turned cold. “You know I’ll beat his ass too. I ain’t scared of Story, Sophie. I mean that.”
“I hate you,” I said through a laugh right before he grabbed my arms and pulled me to my feet.
“Stop saying that shit, even as a joke. I take that shit to heart and you should too,” he said, pressing my body against his.
“Fine, I really don’t like you sometimes.”
“You love me though, right?”
“Maybe,” I said with a grin.
“Sophie,” he barked and I laughed.
“Yes, I love you, now let me go. I’m still mad and will be for a while.”
“Nah, fuck that. You got one day to be mad and half that shit is over. By tonight, I’m paying your ass back for slapping me.”
Trooper let me go and walked off. The sad thing was he was serious and I was actually looking forward to it.