The stubborn side of me wanted to wear clothes I brought from Boulder for my first day back to Sinful Threads. However, the part of me that loved fashion and quality and had run the luxurious material through her fingers, found it difficult to not try on the clothes from the collection within the closet, including soft and sexy underclothes. That wasn’t usually a consideration of my morning routine.

Sterling had a way of infiltrating my thoughts even when I was ...