All Chapters of Dirty Games Off Ice: Chapter 91 - Chapter 100

Damien Mr. Reyes gave a small nod. “There it is. That creates reasonable doubt. You should release him now.”But the cops stayed in their seats. The bearded one shook his head. “It does not change the other evidence. Clothes match. Voice matches on the first video. Texts match. It could be someone working with him. Or the angle is off. We are keeping him for now.”I felt my hands shake harder in the cuffs. “How can you say that? You see it is not my face and you still want to hold me? This does not make sense. Things like this should not happen.”Mr. Reyes touched my arm again to quiet me. “Damien. Stop.”The room felt smaller and my thoughts raced. What if they kept me here longer? What if they never believed the truth? I did not want to bring Alex into this. But his name kept coming up in my head. If I said it out loud the cops would ask him questions. He might find out how much I thought about him. How I pictured us together in ways that made my face hot with shame right now. It f

Alex My heart pounded. I grabbed her wrist, not hard but enough to make her stop. “Do not. Okay? Just… give me time.” Inside I planned already. I would find a way to help Damien without her knowing. Tell the cops the truth. Delete those videos somehow. My feelings for him mixed with the guilt until I felt like throwing up. He ran after a guy who looked like me. That meant something. Maybe he felt the same. The idea made me sad and happy at once, like my chest might crack open.We argued more. Back and forth.“You owe me this,” she said.“I owe you nothing. You tried to rape me last night basically.”“Oh please. You liked it until you did not.”“I did not like it. I said no.” My voice got louder. A couple kids walking by looked over but I did not care. “You are sick.”She rolled her eyes. “Whatever. Just remember the videos.”I walked away from her after that, back towards class but my legs felt heavy. Econs waited but I could not focus. I sat in the back row staring at my phone. Trie

Alex I blinked a few times and the world came back blurry, like someone had smeared everything with water. My head felt heavy, pounding right behind my eyes. I was on the ground, dirt and leaves stuck to my shirt. Jax sat right next to me, cross-legged, his phone still in his hand. He looked worried but also like he was trying not to smile, that half-smirk he always had when he thought he knew better than everyone.“You back with us?” he said, leaning closer. His voice was low but it had that edge, like he was poking fun even now. “You dropped like a sack. Scared the shit out of me for a second.”I pushed myself up on my elbows. Everything rushed back at once. The video. Damien’s face in it. What he did to me that night after the party. In my own house. My stomach twisted so hard I thought I might throw up. I had been falling for him. Like, really falling. Calling him in the middle of the night because I wanted to say I liked him more than friends. And he… he did that. I trusted him.

Damien I sat there in the back of that van after the judge banged his hammer and sent everyone home for the night. My hands were still cuffed tight in front of me and the orange jumpsuit itched like crazy on my skin. The two guards up front were chatting about some football game like I was not even there. Maximum security my ass. Budget cuts they called it. Short route back to the jail.I kept replaying Alex’s words in my head. No matter how hard I tried to focus on something else, they kept coming back. Every few seconds I heard his voice again. Every few seconds I saw him standing there in that courtroom while everyone watched him. He looked nervous, almost sick, but that did not change what came out of his mouth.He said it was possible I killed Marcus.Possible.Such a small word, but it felt heavy enough to crush me.The worst part was not even what he said. It was the fact he could not look at me while saying it. His eyes stayed fixed somewhere else, like he could not stand see

AlexI stood there in my own living room feeling like my chest was about to crack open from how hard my heart was banging around. Damien just stared at me with those big desperate eyes waiting for me to say something that would fix his mess. All I knew right now was I was going to do what was right even if I had no clue what right looked like anymore.“Listen up Damien because I am only saying this once,” I said my voice coming out sharper than I meant but I did not care. “I am helping you get out of here right now because if you are telling the truth about Jax and that CIA stuff then I cannot sleep knowing I handed you over and ruined everything. But this is not forgiveness. You hear me? This does not erase what you did to me. Not even close.”He nodded fast like a kid who got caught stealing cookies. “Yeah yeah I get it Alex. Thank you. God thank you.”“Do not thank me yet,” I snapped back already moving toward the back door because I could hear car doors slamming out front and voic