Hot Mama by Jennifer Estep

Author:Jennifer Estep [Estep, Jennifer]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, pdf
ISBN: 2007025825
Publisher: Jennifer Estep
Published: 2007-01-01T08:00:00+00:00

PART TWO

The

Honeymoon’s

Over

16

After shaking hands with everyone, working the crowd, and reluctantly giving interviews to reporters from SNN and the two newspapers in town, the Chronicle and the Exposé, we piled into the van and headed back to Sublime.

The others chattered about the rescue and wondered who or what could have brought down the massive sports complex. I sat in the back and stared out the tinted windows. Brooding.

Johnny Bulluci was Johnny Angel. I was still trying to figure out what it meant. How I felt about it. The guy I’d been having a hot fling with was actually a… a what? He wasn’t a hard-core ubervillain like Malefica, but Angel was no, well, angel. At least, his last incarnation hadn’t been.

Johnny’s anger over his father’s death. Angel’s vow of revenge on Siren and Intelligal for killing his predecessor. All those freaking angels in the Bulluci mansion. I hated to admit it, but Carmen was right. We superheroes weren’t the brightest bunch when it came to disguising our real identities. I could have firebombed myself for not seeing Angel’s real identity sooner. Say, before I’d gone and slept with him.

“You’re awful quiet, Fiona,” the chief said in his thick brogue. “Is something wrong?”

“I’m just tired.” I was tired. And cranky. And famished.

Not to mention the shock I’d just received.

“Well, I don’t want to pry, but if you want to talk about it, I’m here for you.”

Grateful that he wasn’t going to read my mind tonight, I nodded and returned to my brooding.

———

I crashed in my underground suite at Sublime and didn’t get up until almost four the next afternoon. I hadn’t slept well. In my dreams, Johnny Bulluci had kept morphing into Johnny Angel and back again until I couldn’t tell where one man started and the other ended. Not the most pleasant dream to have about your lover. Especially when you moonlighted as a superhero who was supposed to fight crime, and your honey was out to kill a couple of ubervillains, no matter what. And it was your responsibility to stop bad things like murders from taking place, no matter how much someone might deserve it.

Grumbling, I got out of bed, showered, and went to the kitchen. I wolfed down five pizzas, three hamburgers, a twelve-pack of soda, two chocolate cheesecakes, an apple pie, and three gallons of vanilla ice cream. I always ate more when I was angry or upset. Johnny’s secret identity was more than enough to make me both.

After polishing off my late lunch, I went to the library looking for Henry. I wanted him to get me all the information on Johnny Bulluci that he could find. I opened the double doors and stopped short. Instead of Henry, Lulu sat inside the spacious room. The fan in her laptop whirred to life at my arrival.

“Oh, you’re here—” I started to say again, but I caught myself.

“Nice to see you too, Fiona,” Lulu replied.

“Where are the others?”

Lulu typed a few buttons on her computer. “The chief had some big city meeting he had to go to about the collapse of the sports complex.

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