Page 53 of Burning Love
“I didn’t know we were getting this personal. I never asked when you had sex with Jamie the first time.”
And her sister wouldn’t have told her either.
“I am getting personal. You’re my baby sister. I know you don’t want to hear it, but it’s the truth. Maybe I’m concerned too by what you said.”
“What did I say that concerned you?”
She’d have to watch her words more carefully.
“That you told him once you start to feel more you’d tell him. That means you think it will happen and want him to decide before you get any deeper.”
Talia shrugged. “No one knows a few weeks in. I’ve dated a lot of people for months and realized they weren’t the one. I don’t want to not try. If it starts to turn for me, he’ll be honest with his feelings. I know it.”
“Did you ever stop to think you might be setting yourself up to be hurt?”
“Sometimes life hurts, Laken. I’d rather feel hurt than feel nothing at all.”
“God,” Laken said, her eyes getting misty. “You grew up before my eyes. You’re right. I won’t say anything to Mom.”
“Should I?”
“At some point you’re going to have to tell her. She’ll give you space because you all but threatened her with it.”
Talia laughed. “So much for that heartfelt conversation with Mom. I thought she was sincere and now she thinks I’m blackmailing her or something.”
“Mom needs to be put in her place at times too. We all know that,” Laken said, winking.
She grinned. “I’m glad other people think that.”
“You didn’t tell me about whether you had sex with Jace or not. Think of it as a sisters’ conversation we’ve never had. Have fun with it.”
Her head went back and forth.
She’d been dying to tell someone and it wasn’t as if she was going to admit it to her friends.
None of them knew she was seeing Jace. She’d never kept a secret this long before when it came to a man.
There was a huge part of her that wanted to avoid being judged.
“We did on Wednesday for the first time. It was wonderful. I don’t know if I’ve ever felt like that before. Oh...the control he had.”
Laken laughed. “There is something to be said about a guy with experience as long as he’s not a selfish lover.”
“Jace isn’t. Not in the least.”
“What’s his last name?”
Her sister could figure it out if she didn’t tell her. She all but handed her the information anyway saying who he was and where he worked.
“Rigby. Do you want to see a picture of him?”
“Absolutely.”
She pulled her phone out and showed her sister a picture she’d taken of Jace secretly when he was grilling. He had no clue, but she needed something she could gaze at when she wanted to smile.
“Hot damn,” Laken said. “Okay. Now I get it.”
“Get what?”
