The 99th Game Was Mine All Along novel Chapter 55

Chapter 12 

Laria’s façade crumbled completely. Her voice climbed into a desperate. 

“Please, Hektor, don’t hurt me,” she sobbed, mascara streaming down her face. 

Hektor swayed on his feet, his shirt soaked crimson. He seemed not to hear her pleas at all. 

Instead, he plunged the knife into her stomach. Once. Twice. Again and again. 

Blood spattered across my face and clothes. 

Kira burst through the doorway at the sounds. Seeing the carnage before her, she froze mid–step, her hand flying to her mouth. 

Only when Laria collapsed into a lifeless heap did Hektor finally stop. He turned to me, his eyes fevered 

and unfocused. 

“She can’t hurt you anymore,” he whispered, his voice eerily calm. “I killed her… for your mother. For you. That’s what you wanted… right? Am I forgiven now?” 

His legs gave out and he crumpled to his knees, dropping the knife with a clatter. His blood–slicked hand 

reached toward me. 

Slowly, deliberately, I walked forward. 

A flicker of desperate hope lit his face as I leaned down, my lips almost brushing his ear. 

“I will never forgive you,” I whispered softly. “Not in this lifetime or any other.” 

The light in his eyes died with my words. He closed them slowly as his body pitched forward onto the 

concrete. 

Hektor didn’t die that day. 

The police responding to Laria’s attack got him to the hospital in time to save his body, if not his mind. 

After his physical recovery, he was transferred to a high–security psychiatric facility. 

His mother appeared at my door countless times afterward, the imperious socialite replaced by a broken 

woman. 

She begged me to visit Hektor, insisting it might help his condition. 

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I studied this woman–her hair turned white overnight, her face carved with new lines of suffering–and 

said. 

“The mighty Hektor Reed, needing someone like me to save him? I don’t think so.” 

Mrs. Reed left in defeat, her shoulders hunched with disappointment. I watched her go without a flicker