"Do I need to get a hotel room?" she asked and I could hear Danielle and Belinda urging her on in the background."I guess that depends if you mind sle...ping in your car," I said as I tried to hide a laugh."Oh," she said.I heard Danielle in the background and then her voice on the phone."What did you say to her?" she asked.I repeated it."You better have been kidding," she insisted. "It wouldn't hurt you to let her stay." Well," I said. "I was going to do exactly that after I let her stew for a. I helped her with the helmet standing close, looking down her blouse making her nervous as she was aware of her cleavage and not sure I was looking or not. I took my time gently fastening her helmet and then I cranked up my scoot. I sat in the saddle and told her to climb aboard. Laura had to grab my arm and swing over behind me. I took off.I leaned back (into her breasts) and told her to relax, how to lean and what not to do. I purposely was sitting further back than I needed to spread her. ‘Go ahead and open it.’ My hands are shaking as I slowly open it up. It is a ring in the shape of a V. I look up at him with tears in my eyes. ‘It’s beautiful. But why?’ ‘It’s your birthday present. Just something to remember me and our weekend together.’ He slides the ring on my index finger. ‘So now, when you get home and think that it was all a dream, you can look at this and know that it was real.’ He slowly leans down and gives me the hottest kiss imaginable. Over the intercom, I hear them. Today, you have no skill. Today, you have no value. A strong tribe is made of strong people. Today, you are weak. Today, I reject you from the Mudheel tribe.”Had you not heard this speech every year, his words might be shocking to hear. Certainly, if an outsider were in attendance, the opening lines would seem unfairly harsh. But everyone here was Mudheel, by birth or by choice or by force, and many of them had been through this ceremony themselves. After an acceptable pause, the leader.