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Thinking he might have gone outside to get some fresh air, I walked toward the exit. And the moment I stepped outside, my eyes were pulled in the direction of where my car had been parked.
While I couldn’t make out what was happening, I could see Roy. He was standing there with a group of guys around him, and I immediately assumed they had to be some friends of his.
Guessing he must have gotten sidetracked and lost track of time, I didn’t hesitate to go toward him. But when I was a matter of a few feet away, I realized I was wrong.
The four men standing around Roy weren’t his friends.
“I didn’t know,” Roy said, fear laced in his tone.
My belly began trembling, because it became obvious that Roy was scared.
“You didn’t know?” one of the men asked, moving toward him. “Do you think I’m a fucking idiot?”
Roy shook his head. “No. Not at all.”
“But you expect me to believe that you’ve been talking to my girl online, sliding into her DMs for months now, meeting up with her everywhere, and expecting her to meet you here tonight, but you didn’t happen to look at any of her pictures? You didn’t see the photos of the two of us together all over her social media?”
My lips parted in shock, my heart squeezing in my chest. This couldn’t be right. Surely, this man was mistaken.
I knew it.
Roy was going to tell him at any moment that he had gotten the wrong guy.
“If I had known she was your girl, I never would have touched her,” Roy replied.
The man swung at Roy, his fist connecting with Roy’s jaw. The sound I heard as that happened mirrored the sound I imagined my heart made when it broke.
“You fucking touched my girl, and you planned to meet up with her here tonight,” the man shouted. “Nobody touches my girl.”
“I’m sorry,” Roy apologized.
He was clearly pleading with the man to believe him.
“Nobody touches my girl either,” another man said, stepping forward to swing at Roy. “She was at your house today. I know everything that happened.”
Suddenly, I was no longer focusing on the heartbreak I felt. I was sick, convinced I was going to vomit all over the parking lot.
Roy was cheating on me.
These men had found out.
Before Roy could respond, another blow to his face came. Then another and another.
Roy had fallen to the ground, and for some idiotic reason, all I could think was that I didn’t want these men to kill him.
So, I tried to jump in.
“Stop. Stop,” I shouted.
“Devyn,” Roy groaned.
“Get out of the way, bitch,” another man ordered.
“No. Stop this right now, or I’m calling the police,” I fired back, digging my hand into my purse.
That was the wrong thing to do.
Because before I could even curl my fingers around my phone, a fist connected with my face, and I went flying backward.
I landed on the ground with a thud, my head smacking the pavement. By some miracle, I wasn’t instantly knocked out, and I attempted to roll to my side. But before I could make any real progress, a foot landed in my belly. I fell to my back again, feeling the rage these men had through each of the blows I’d taken to my face and body.
Things started to get fuzzy.
Just before I blacked out, only one thought passed through my mind.
I had experienced a lot of bad moments that had impacted my life tremendously, and never once did they feel like this. That’s when I realized that this wasn’t a bad moment that would change my life.
It was the moment that was going to end it.
