A low dramatic tension filled the entire warm dining room space completely.
Mark walked with slow steady steps toward the decorated head dinner table.
His hands clenched into tight hard fists down at his dark sides.
Mark: You put your hands on my little daughter in my house?!
Jessica: Mark, please stop acting like this is a massive huge deal!
Jessica stepped back against the edge of the polished mahogany wood table.
Jessica: I was just trying to teach her some basic good manners!
Mark: She is a baby who cannot even talk yet, Jessica!
Mark stared down at her with intense dark fury in his eyes.
Jessica: She needs to learn that she cannot have everything she wants!
Mark: You do not ever touch or discipline my child ever again!
Sarah patted Lily's back as the baby's soft crying slowly stopped.
Sarah: She has been jealous of our home for months now, Mark.
Jessica: That is a complete lie and you know it very well!
Sarah: You have made strange comments about our family money for weeks!
Jessica's face flushed bright red with sudden embarrassing visible shame right then.
Jessica: I came here to celebrate the nice Christmas dinner with you!
Mark: You came here to create spiteful trouble inside my peaceful home!
Mark raised his hand and pointed straight toward the bright front hallway.
Mark: Get out of my house before I call the city police!
Jessica: You cannot throw me out into the cold winter snow like this!
Mark: Watch me do it right now if you do not leave!
Jessica grabbed her leather purse from the nearby plush dining chair back.
She glared at Sarah with pure dark hatred in her cold eyes.
Jessica: You think you have everything figured out so perfectly, don't you?