His girlfriend had been forced to beg Dempsey to leave them in peace. Ryan had seen that happen before, and had often watched something die in the eyes of the woman involved when it did. Her boyfriend was weak, and his weakness had been publicly exposed. Somewhere deep inside, the woman always wanted the guy to fight back, to win or to take his beating.
See I’d never feel like that, I guess it’s because of my upbringing, so much fighting & nastiness in the house, that I felt I was walking on eggshells, always waiting for the next thing to happen, that confrontation, any confrontation is abhorrent to the & I wouldn’t want someone I was with to want any part of it either.
