Todos los capítulos de Dirty Games Off Ice: Capítulo 171 - Capítulo 180

Alex The silence that followed was heavy. Rain filled it. Damien looked away first. Jax dragged a hand down his face and went back to Mark without another word.I knelt on the other side of Mark and put my hand on his forehead. He was burning. His eyelids fluttered and for a second I thought he was still under, but then his eyes opened. They were glassy and unfocused but they found me.“Alex,” he rasped.“I’m here. Don’t try to sit up.”He ignored that and tried anyway. Jax pushed him back down gently but firmly. Mark’s gaze drifted to Damien and then to Jax and then back to me. His voice was rough and slow like every word cost him something.“Knox… he wasn’t just after Marcus. The whole thing was bigger. He used Jade. His own daughter. She was the decoy. Pretty face, right age, right look. She would get close to the vulnerable ones, the ones with something to hide or something to lose. Young men who needed money or protection or a way into the right circles. Once they were in deep e

Alex Mark’s chest was not moving. I had my fingers against the side of his neck and there was nothing under them, no pulse, no flutter, nothing at all. His eyes were open but empty and the heat from the fever was already starting to leave his skin. The man who had held me in that cabin, who had talked about forever while the seizures took him apart, was gone in the space between one breath and the next.“Jax,” I said, and my voice did not sound like mine. “He’s not breathing.”Jax was already moving. He shoved the medical kit aside and dropped to his knees on the other side of Mark’s body. “Start compressions. I’ll do the breaths. Count out loud.”I laced my hands the way they teach you in every basic class and pushed down on Mark’s chest. It felt wrong, too soft and too final, but I kept going. Jax tilted Mark’s head back and sealed his mouth over his, forcing air in between the sets of thirty. Damien stood frozen for a second near the broken door, then came closer and dropped to th

Alex I sat on the edge of the narrow bed and stared at the floor. My chest felt heavy. Everything from the last few days sat on me like a weight I could not put down.“I’m so depressed,” I said. My voice was quiet. “I keep thinking about Mark’s mom. She lost both her sons. First one, now the other. It’s going to break her. It’s so sad. She doesn’t deserve that.”Damien sat down next to me. He did not touch me yet. He just stayed close.Jax stood a few steps away. He looked tired. After a moment he spoke.“I already talked to her,” he said. “I sent stuff to her on the safe line. I told her about the brain trauma. I sent the papers the doctors would have given her. She knows the truth now. I didn’t leave her in the dark.”I nodded. “Thank you.” The words felt small. “I still feel like shit. I need… something. I need to feel something else for a while.”Damien’s hand moved to my knee. Slowly . I looked at him and he looked back. There was no rush in his eyes. Just quiet waiting.I leane

Alex I ran the backstage corridor hard, shoving past the last of the scattering reporters and the guards who were already falling back once the video kept looping on every screen. Damien was ahead of me, moving like he had nothing left to lose. Knox still had Jade by the arm, dragging her toward the service stairs that led down into the subterranean loading bay. I took the stairs two at a time and hit the concrete floor just as Damien cornered them near a stack of empty crates.Damien had the gun up and pointed straight at Knox’s chest. His eyes were burning with everything he had held in for months, the frame job, the beatings, the way his own father had used him, the nights he spent thinking he was the problem when the real problem had been standing in a clean suit lying to cameras. Jade was still half in front of Knox but Damien’s aim never wavered.“Let her go,” Damien said. His voice was low and raw. “You’re done. The whole city just watched what you did.”Knox smiled like he

Alex I opened the estate gate myself and walked out to meet her. The rain had slowed to a thin mist and Lila stood there with the envelope still in her hands like it was the only card she had left. I did not feel fear. I had already watched Mark die, watched Knox get dragged away in cuffs, and watched my sister get taken under fake charges. Whatever was in that envelope was just another thing I was going to handle.“Talk,” I said. “You’ve got two minutes before I close this gate and let the cameras keep recording whatever happens next.”Lila held the envelope up. “These are the originals. Every photo, every video. I destroy them right here if you give me the Trust documents. I need them, u can’t explain everything to you right now I’m sorry, but I do need them, so hand me the trust papers, he clears some stuff , and you never see these pictures again. That’s the deal.”Damien stepped out of the house behind me before I could answer. His voice was hard. “You’re done bargaining. Lily