Vera Xavier knew that saving a life was the most important thing right now, but she couldn't swallow the rage building inside her. She grabbed a bowl from the table and viciously smashed it over Rona Langdon's head, shouting, "Mom, Cara Preston, if anything happens to Dad today, I'll make you pay with your lives!"
Rona Langdon never expected her to get physical. She couldn't dodge in time and the bowl hit her on the head. In an instant, blood was streaming down her face.
Rona Langdon reached up, and her hand came away covered in blood. Terrified, she immediately started shrieking at the top of her lungs, "Murder! Murder! Vera Xavier is a murderer!"
Grandma Dixon quickly poked her head out of her house to see what was happening, just in time to see Vera Xavier, her face a mask of grief and indignation, running outside with Nathaniel Nathan while carrying Zachary Preston.
