Undercover

Mini Chapter: Underneath

Whitey.  Authors note: So you can technically skip this chapter if you want, it's a mini-chapter because I wanted to give the reader a better idea of Whitey's perspective and how he sees Sophie. It mainly covers the last three chapters and how he sees it. Some of you guys might enjoy it, some of you might find it unnecessary, that's fine just move on to the next chapter! Love ya'll! 💕

I walked into the saloon and saw Sophie and Cora sitting at the bar.
Sophie looked nervous, she was rubbing her hands together the way she did when there was something on her mind, I hugged her.
Underneath me she seemed to relax a little and I hoped it was me helping her feel relieved.

We sat down and began playing Texas holdem when Louis burst into the room looking incredibly shaken up. He began to yell: "Friedman's gonna-"
When Cora interrupted him.

"Louis! Shut up!"

I was immediately curious as to what they were talking about and I glanced at Sophie, she looked at me with a guilty look on her face.

"We have company." She said clearly trying to cover something up.
Honestly I had gotten used to Sophie hiding things from me. I've always been relatively intuitive and staying close to Sophie makes that part of me go crazy.

"Friedman's gonna what?" I asked suspecting some sort of scheme. I knew Sophie had it out for the Sheriff but I was even more intrigued at the thought of her actually doing something about it.

"Sophie, can I speak to you in private?"  Louis asked and he nodded toward the back room.
Every time they did stuff together it just rubbed me the wrong way. The image of them dancing together and them constantly sitting together and bickering, made me get suddenly annoyed at Louis and defensive about Sophie. I stood up out of my chair and placed my hands on my gun belt.
"And what exactly do you plan on doin" I asked.
Sophie, Cora and Louis looked at me weird and it dawned on me that I was being really random.
I sat back down.

Cora convinced Louis to play a game and halfway through Louis stood up, declares that he lost, and dragged Sophie into the back room.

Cora turned to me.
"Do you love Sophie?" She asked not breaking eye contact.
Her outright confidence made me nervous.
I shifted around in my seat.

"I don't know about l-love per say"

"Yes or no?" She said frowning at me.

"Y-yes?" I said generally confused at fee confrontation.

"Thought so." She said and sat back in her chair.
"Although I  think you might need to compete with Louis a bit." She added sticking a toothpick in her mouth.

"I also though that... but, I'm not worried."

"Confidence! Good, she likes that" Cora said while looking at her cards and saying: " I fold like a cheap whore hitting the belly"

To be honest I had no clue what that meant, Cora was really tough and that poked curiosity at me.

Sophie burst into the room and told Cora that "the jig was up" or something and I got really confused. She mentioned something or another about Damion Creek's men and that freaked me out. A while back I had encountered one while I was traveling cross state lines. They were doing some gnarly stuff to a guy.

A man walked in and Sophie threatened him before plunging a knife into his face. I heard the crack and saw the blood splatter. Sophie, had just killed a man.
SOPHIE! Had just killed a man. I took a second to register in my head.

Three men in black entered the room and Louis entered soon after.
One of the men shot Louis, and immediately Sophie attacked him after she was done a man began walking over to her. She didn't see him and he was about to kill her before I drew my gun and shot him.
He fell onto Sophie.
She was the best fighter I had ever seen! I didn't know if I was seriously impressed or honestly...scared. I had never seen a girl fight like that. She knew every move to make and did it so fast.
Suddenly my thoughts were interrupted when a man grabbed me and held a gun to my temple.
He threatened to shoot me if Sophie didn't drop the knives. I didn't know what they might do to her, and I didn't want to know.
"Shoot me Fool!" I yelled at the man whilst reaching for my gun.