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Heels and Heroes
Book: Heels and Heroes Read Online Free
Author: Tiffany Allee
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asked.
    She’d been talking, but he’d missed it. What had she said? It had been important. “Um….” he said, brilliantly.
    “B-R-E-N-D-A.” she said, punctuating every letter as clearly as if she’d written the word down for him. “Brenda. That’s my name. Don’t slip up and call me anything else. Not like anyone has heard of Silencer anyway, but I don’t want them to know anything about my other…pseudo life. Got it?”
    Something had changed. The woman standing in front of him with one hand settled on her hip while the other waved at him seemed like a stranger. But her direct gaze was the same, as was her matter-of-fact speech. He couldn’t put his finger on the change. But he would. He was Justice after all, the hero of the Millennium Park attack, the man who tracked down and defeated the super villain IronClaw, not to mention the people he helped during his day job.
    His mind settled by his thoughts, he said, “How are you going to explain me?”
    “Oh, don’t you worry your pretty head about that.” She grinned, and his feeling of being off-balance about her grew. But before he was able to think too far into it, she strode toward the hospital, leaving him to follow in her wake.
    He expected her to head for the elevator, so when she swung toward the pharmacy door, he changed direction awkwardly.
    The woman behind the counter smiled at Silencer in obvious relief before disappearing to let them into the pharmacy area.
    As they slipped through the doorway, the woman said, “Thank you so much, Brenda. I’m sorry about this, but he—” She stopped talking abruptly as she took in Justice, frowning at the reassuring smile he shot her.
    “This is Justice. He’s doing some surveillance of the hospital, and we’re letting him use the pharmacy as his base. Justice, this is Maria, she’s one of our pharmacists.”
    Maria took the hand he held out and shook it gingerly. “One of the local superheroes?” She didn’t sound overly impressed.
    “Yes, ma’am,” he replied.
    “Hmph,” was Maria’s only response as she pulled off her lab coat. She grabbed a purse from the small office set in one corner of the pharmacy. “Thanks again, boss,” she called over her shoulder as she let herself out.
    “You, wait there,” Brenda said, pointing to the office.
    Justice followed her instructions; he seated himself and then peeked out to watch her deal with customers.
    She was efficient, not brisk, but quick in the way of a person completely comfortable in her job. Questions from customers were met with compassion and direct answers, and it was obvious she knew several by name. After the first hour rolled around, realization hit him.
    She’d changed when she took off her mask, changed in the way a superhero usually did when donning her uniform. For Silencer—Brenda—it was like putting on the uniform reduced her, removed a bit of confidence that, for some reason, a blouse and white medical coat granted her.
    Suddenly, a blouse and slacks looked sexier than anything he’d seen in a while.
    “So Maria didn’t seem exactly impressed to meet a superhero,” he said when the steady line of customers disappeared.
    “Well, she wouldn’t be,” Brenda muttered, more to herself than to him. Shooting him a sharp glance, she explained, “Her ex was a superhero. Some hotshot out of Denver. I think he’s a big part of the reason she moved here.”
    Unsure of what to say to that, he just nodded.
    “Figures, though.” She tucked a chunk of blonde hair behind her ear and turned away to sort through a small stack of paperwork.
    “Why?”
    “Because she’s a normal human, of course. What kind of a chance did she have to hold onto a superhero?” She glanced at him before returning to her sorting. “A real one, I mean.”
    “You think only some superheroes are real?” he asked, shock rushing through him.
    “Justice,” she said, after glancing around to make sure they were alone. “There is a difference between
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