That is the complete and total list, Dad, of everything you have given me lately.”

A heavy silence spread out across that enormous room, and no one in it moved.

And then Lucas stepped forward to the cocktail table, and he picked up the diamond engagement ring that Savannah had set down beside her drink to free her hands for gesturing, and he closed his fist around it.

“I think,” he said, and his voice was cold, “that this should stay with my family, until you and I have a very real conversation about what I just heard.”

“Lucas — Lucas, please, wait — ” Savannah reached for him, sobbing now in earnest.

He did not wait.