My screen lit up with Luca’s name again, and I opened the message.

Mom is talking about filing a police report for assault because you shoved her, it read. If you bring Fiona back right now and apologize, I can convince her to drop it.

Don’t ruin our family over a temper tantrum.

And here is where the hardest thing I had done all night — keeping my hands at my sides in that banquet room — paid off completely.

Because I had not shoved his mother.