Bad Boy Biker
"Merry Christmas, by the way. In case the turkey logistics made you forget the actual occasion."
"Merry Christmas." She turned in his arms, kissed him properly. "Twenty-two years of these mornings now."
"Best mornings of my life. Every single one."
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By nine, the house had begun its transformation from quiet to chaos. Grace arrived first, having driven up from the city the night before but sleeping at her old apartment downtown rather than crowding the already-full house. She came bearing an enormous canvas wrapped in brown paper—her gift to the family, a tradition she'd maintained since her first gallery show, always something new, always something that captured the family in ways photogr