Playing With Fire (Sweet Secrets #3) by Taylor Henderson

Okay ,” Trinity said with a sigh, placing the shirt back on the rack. “I think I have enough stuff to try on now.” She looked down at her cart that was overflowing with clothes.
    Laughing, I said, “You think?”
    She poked her tongue out. “I haven’t been shopping in forever. I needed a wardrobe makeover.”
    “Sure you did,” I mumbled, but I didn’t think she heard me. She was already preoccupied with finding the dressing rooms.
    I followed her across the store to the dressing rooms where a woman in black slacks and an elegant, cream chiffon shirt counted Trinity’s items and ushered us into a dressing room. I took a seat as Trinity sorted through her clothes and hung them up on hooks according to upper body and lower body.
    “So is everything back to normal with you and Shane? Or are things awkward now?” she asked as she slipped her shirt over her head. Her dark curls bounced around her head as she jumped around, tugging her jeans off of her legs.
    “For the most part it is,” I answered after a moment. I thought about the past few days since Shane forgave me, and everything had returned to normal. If anything, I was the one who felt awkward, because I felt terrible for not trusting him initially. I shouldn’t have allowed everyone to get inside my head and manipulate my thoughts. Shane was such a sweet guy, and I was wrong for thinking otherwise.
    Trinity pulled a blue pencil skirt up over her hips and paired it with a white top. “For the most part?” she questioned as she adjusted the skirt.
    “Yeah, we aren’t exactly where we were before, but I think that’s a good thing. We’re better than we were before because we established an open line of communication, and we put everything behind us. We have a clean slate where we both can trust each other.”
    “That’s good then. Being able to trust each other is really important.” She placed her hands on her hips and spun slowly. “Do you like this?”
    I nodded in response. “You look hot.”
    She laughed, thanked me, and then proceeded to try on something else. “So since you and Shane are in a better place now, with no lies, and more trust, does that mean that there’s sex in your future?”
    I rolled my eyes at her question.
    “What?” she asked with wide eyes. “I had to ask! Is there?”
    I shrugged. “I don’t know. I haven’t thought about it, really. I really like him, and as cliché as it sounds, I don’t know if I want to ruin things by sleeping with him too soon.”
    “Well, you do sound cliché,” Trinity pointed out. “But I can see where you’re coming from. Just don’t worry about how it’s going to change things, because sex always changes things. With Brandon and me, it changed our relationship for the better.”
    “Did it really?”
    She nodded. “We were both really shy around each other, and afterwards, we weren’t. We became more comfortable, and less timid.”
    “Shane and I are already comfortable with each other. Believe me.”
    Trinity batted some hair out of her eyes and tried on another shirt. “That’s great. Then you shouldn’t be worried about when’s a good time to do the deed. When you’re ready, it’ll happen.”
    I sat quietly for a while, just thinking. She was right. I’ve been so hung up with whether or not I could trust Shane, and thinking about holding off on sleeping with him as long as possible, that I was trying to control everything. If there’s one thing I knew, it’s that life is uncontrollable. I had been scared that sleeping with Shane would be giving away something that I couldn’t get back, and that afterwards he wouldn’t be interested in me, but I knew that wasn’t true. We’d been dating for months now without going any further than kissing, and a guy who wasn’t interested in a relationship would have been long gone by now. Shane wasn’t. If I hadn’t been so paranoid, then maybe I would’ve realized that much sooner. I needed to stop trying to control