Owned by my husband’s boss
"How do I look?"
Lyla gave him a serious thumbs-up. "You are the most handsome."
"Even more handsome than your dad?" Anthony teased.
"Yes!" she giggled. Mr. Jeffery let out a booming laugh, though Lola and her husband exchanged a weary, unamused look.
"Thank you all for coming," Mr. Jeffery said, his voice turning sentimental. "Honestly, turning seventy wasn’t a milestone I expected to see. I thought I’d be in the ground by now." He chuckled at his own grim joke, and the table offered polite, half-hearted laughs. "But I appreciate you taking time out of your busy lives for an old man."