“I thought the bike was a nice gift,” she said, and it took me a moment to realise she meant the bike I’d bought Roxy for winning the race against me all those months ago. “Yeah? She sure took her time in coming to look at it.” “Well, it was good of you to admit that you were wrong and accept that she’d won something. But you could hardly expect her to forgive you without making you work your ass off for it.”
