Free The Contract: Sunshine by Shiree McCarver Page A

because I couldn’t stop using the bathroom.”  She laughed softly.  She could laugh now but it wasn’t so funny a few hours ago.
    “I wondered how you were keeping yourself busy in there,” Yoon laughed with her.  “I thought maybe you were enjoying those chocolate mint Andes they keep in there.”
    “How did you--” She halted abruptly.  She knew how he would know.  The kisses they shared.  Her fingers fluttered to her neck where she felt a prickly heat creeping up the side.
    He smiled knowingly at her, “I admit I enjoyed the candy from Piccolo Bellissima more this evening than I have any other evening that I’ve eaten dinner there.”
    With a saucy wink his way, Sunshine said, “You’re welcome.  I bet I was the best company you ever had there too if Leslie is an e x ample of your previous dinner dates.  Maybe next time you will actually order me dinner.”
    “I thought I did,” he stated with a significant lifting of his brows. Yoon’s lips widened with a slow, secret smile before saying, “You and your horny preacher man.”
    “Seems like he wasn’t the only horny man there tonight,” Su n shine murmured, cutting him a side glance.
    A twinkle of streetlights caught his eyes as he glanced her way.  It was brief for he had to return his attention to the rode as he drove another block and turned left but the indefinable emotion she saw there for that quick second made her curious to what he truly thought about her and her actions this evening.
    He stopped at a security gate entrance to a lush condominium community and pressed buttons on the key pad causing the large white gates to swing wide and close behind him as he passed through.
    “This is nice.”
    “Nice?”  He balked and pushed a button on some gadget ove r head.  “It’s better than nice.  I always make sure I buy the best.  Wait until you see the inside.”
    “I’ve seen them,” she spoke without thinking staring at the rows of buildings.  The grounds were lit up with decorative lights making it well lit at night.  “They would be better than nice if they had a more open floor plan.”
    “With whom?”  His Asian eyes narrowed to sparkling slits.  She could see his face really well now that he eased the sports car into a well lit open garage and parked next to a silver-colored 4-door SUV.   He shifted the gears one last time, pulled up on the clutch and applied the eme r gency brake, then cut the engine off.
    Sunshine realized her slip up.  “What?”  She looked away taking a little longer than necessary to release her seatbelt.
    “You said you’ve seen the inside of these condos before.  Do you know someone who lives here?”  He released his seatbelt and pushed the button overhead again.  The garage door closed, encasing them in.
    She wondered why she wasn’t frightened to be alone with him. She barely knew Yoon, but for some reason she wasn’t afraid.  As a ma t ter-of-fact, she didn’t think she’d ever met anyone she felt safer with.
    She looked away from his searching eyes as she made up some excuse.  She had to be more careful.  If she wasn’t the heiress, she couldn’t use her real experiences.  He would just assume she was lying again. 
    “I came here during an open house.”  She laughed nervously.  “I like to do that sometimes.  Pretend that I could afford a place like this.”
    “Sunshine, why are you still lying to me?”
    She released an inward groan of frustration.  She couldn’t win here.  When she told the truth, he thought she was lying.  Now she really was lying and he still thought she was lying.  So what did he want her to say?
    Instead, she asked a question of her own.  “Why do you keep saying that I’m lying when I’m not?”  She asked loudly.
    “Because,” he replied just as loudly.
    “Because what?”
    “Because you’re not a good liar,” Yoon yelled.  “And I can tell.”
    “Your girlfriend believed we were engaged,” Sunshine reminded him.