"I'm gonna kill... you... fuckin' bastard..."
With a steak knife in her right hand and a fork still stabbing into her steak, which had already cracked the porcelain plate beneath it, Jess desperately tried to reach Orville on the opposite side of the table.
Her eyes were filled with the madness of someone genuinely committed to murder.
If her mother, Jessica, hadn't been holding her down with an iron grip around the back of her neck, Jess would have already done exactly what she threatened.
"Please... calm down... Nubia... help me... Lena..."
"Don't you dare interfere, Lena! I'm gonna kill this old man myself!"
Nubia, meanwhile, was already strangling her father, Orville, with both hands, intent on choking the life out of him. Her face was twisted with a mixture of disgust and anger.
