Bad Boy Biker
She hugged Duke hard and said, "You're not old."
"I know."
"JJ says you're old."
"JJ is eighteen and thinks everyone over thirty is old."
"He's not entirely wrong," Grace said, and went to steal food from the kitchen.
Axel and Rita arrived at five. Axel, now married two years, had the specific settled quality of a man who'd stopped fighting against happiness and simply let himself have it. He hugged Duke at the door.
"Fifty," Axel said.
"Fifty," Duke agreed.
"Feel different?"