Chapter 40: The Sweetest Gift

Harlow

“You like it?” Cyrus asked as if he couldn’t tell by the expression on my face.

In front of my trailer, next to Cyrus’s bike, sat a vintage motorcycle with a paint job that matched my car exactly.

“I LOVE it! Is that a Triumph Thunderbird?”

Cyrus nodded. “1956,” he said with a smile.

“And the paint?”

“Wilderness green, just like your car.”

“Where the hell did you get this?” I started to get teary-eyed.

“It was my dad’s,” Cyrus replied. “The paint job I called in as a favor from a body shop in Skeetwood County.”

“Are you sure you wanna give this to me? I mean, if it was your dad’s?”

“I want you to have it,” Cyrus said, pulling me to him.

At this point, I couldn’t stop the waterworks if I’d wanted to.

“This is the most incredible gift anyone’s ever given me,” I said, wiping a tear from my cheek. “Thank you.” I pulled Cyrus down to kiss me. Then I asked, “Can I sit on it?”

Cyrus laughed. “Of course. It’s all yours.”