A Good Girl's Guide to Super Villains
By Vivi Andrews
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Even good girls can’t resist a good villain.
Relationships are complicated enough without adding super powers to the mix. Second generation hero Darla Powers, AKA Dynagirl, has been nicknamed the Jessica Rabbit of Supers, but she still can’t seem to find a man who doesn’t feel emasculated by her super-strength. If she can’t have a partner in fighting crime, she at least wants someone to come home to when she’s done saving the city. But the leather-clad supervillain breaking into city hall isn’t who she had in mind—no matter how supernaturally hot he may be.
Lucien Wroth doesn’t see himself as a bad guy, but when you’re the son of one of the world’s most infamous villains you don’t get a lot of second chances—and he’ll gladly accept the villainous reputation if it helps him rescue his little sister. Lucien is determined to get his sister away from the supervillain using her for her powers and clear her name, even if he has to go through one very sexy superheroine to do it.
When Darla and Lucien square off, sparks—and debris—fly. But as a bigger threat forces them into an uneasy partnership, Darla begins to suspect the perfect man for a good girl just might be a very bad boy.
**PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED AS SUPERLOVIN’**
Vivi Andrews
Vivi Andrews is an award-winning paranormal romance author who calls Alaska home. For more about Vivi and her books, visit www.viviandrews.com.
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A Good Girl's Guide to Super Villains - Vivi Andrews
Chapter One
The New Bad in Town
Lucien Wroth didn’t think of himself as such a bad guy, for a Bad Guy.
Admittedly, breaking into a secret government vault to find schematics for an even more secret government facility so he could bust out a convicted felon did fall slightly on the shady side of legality, but no one was perfect. Not even those damn smug heroes, with their holier-than-thou swagger and shiny PR images.
It was all about spin. If you had powers, you were either a hero or a villain, no grey area. So a teenage girl exploring her ability to project false images into the minds around her who happened to be going through a rebellious phase and fell in with the wrong crowd was labeled a villain after one tiny little bank robbery—and locked away in the specialized Super prison known as Area Nine.
If that girl’s father happened to have chosen the losing side on a few rather significant historical altercations that earned him the title supervillain,
the Powers That Be were even more unforgiving.
Life sentence. No parole.
Mirabelle was nineteen. She’d made a mistake.
But mistakes weren’t allowed when your father was Demon Wroth.
Lucien’s fists clenched at the thought of his baby sister in a cage. The heavy-duty filing cabinet in his hands screamed as the drawer warped, the thick metal providing as much resistance as warm butter to his strength. Looking down at what his hands had wrought, he eased his grip and swore under his breath. That drawer would never close again.
Sloppy.
Now wasn’t the time for emotion. Now was the time to search the secret vault beneath City Hall before some do-gooder in a cape swept in to be a pain in his ass.
Even if his spectacular entrance punching through a wall on the first floor had somehow escaped notice, he’d undoubtedly tripped some silent alarm the second he set foot on the lower level—the sub-basement that housed the secret filing room dealing with all things Super. So secret
the press had even come up with a cute name for it.
The Crypt.
Where the not-so-pristine truth about heroes is buried.
Conspiracy theorists loved to speculate on the contents of these files. But tonight he didn’t care about the truth. Just Mirabelle.
Lucien scanned the room. The filing cabinets had been his best bet, but he’d come up empty there. He walked past the computers, ignoring them. The schematics for Area Nine would be low-tech. Hard copies. Any techno-super with half a brain could hack digital files, so the most coveted secrets in the world were old school—typewritten, carbon-copied specs and hand-drawn blueprints. But where?
The heroes loved their secret hidey-holes. He wouldn’t put it past them to have a top-secret filing cabinet hidden behind a wall, but he didn’t have time to tap along the walls for a hollow compartment or check behind paintings for a safe. He wasn’t feeling particularly subtle, anyway.
Brute force sounded pretty damn good right now.
Typically, villains tended to possess powers that were mental in nature—like his sister’s projection and their father’s ability to coerce others to do his will. Lucien’s abilities fell into the more traditionally heroic side of the spectrum—the brainless physical side. Superstrength, superspeed. But he had one trick up his sleeve that was a bit more sophisticated than his ability to bend rebar with his bare hands.
Lucien closed his eyes in the middle of the room, centering himself. Going still, he drew air molecules toward himself, coiling them close to his body, feeding them potential energy until the air felt like plated armor on his skin. He drew in a breath and released the particles, like setting a spark to a fuse. They exploded out on an invisible shock wave with him at the epicenter, kinetic energy bursting to life. The room shook from the force, the foundations of the building trembling.
Lucien held his breath, hoping he hadn’t just brought the damn building down on his head, but after a moment, the quaking foundations stilled and he opened his eyes.
The room was in chaos. Computer monitors destroyed, file cabinets toppled, furniture bent, broken and scattered, but Lucien looked past all that. To the walls. The drywall had bowed and caved, shifting back several feet—everywhere except a section where an Outstanding Service plaque had hung only moments before. The reinforced brick there had barely budged under the shock wave, but the drywall at the surface had cracked to reveal a large rectangular panel.
Bingo.
Lucien crossed the room in two strides and ripped away the last of the drywall covering a safe as tall as he was. It had slots for a physical key, a keypad and a combination lock as well, but he didn’t have time to play nice. He gripped the handles and yanked.
They flew off in his hands, leaving the safe door intact, and he stumbled back a few steps.
Shit.
He took a running step and rammed his fist into the front of the safe, but it didn’t even dent. Reinforced. Probably with that new anti-superstrength polymer that had been in the news a few months back.
Time for Plan B. Lucien pulled back and pulverized the wall beside the safe, clearing the space with two quick blows. Then he took aim at the side of the casing and slammed his fist through three inches of metal, like punching through a paper bag. He was in.
Typical heroes,
Lucien snorted. Reinforcing the front, but completely ignoring the sides.
An oversight we’ll be sure to correct while you’re rotting in Area Nine.
Lucien’s head snapped around at the sound of the voice. A voice like velvet handcuffs and slippery sex.
He recognized her instantly. It was hard not to with her face splashed across the covers of half the magazines on every newsstand. Her distinctive long red curls seemed to blow in a breeze even though they were three stories underground. The Powers Princess.
DynaGirl.
The Jessica Rabbit of crime fighters. Sex kitten in a skintight supersuit. From her fuck-me boots and suck-me lips, to the make-me-beg body lovingly encased in black spandex with a glittery red D over her heart, Darla Powers was walking sex appeal and she knew it. Beloved by reporters everywhere, she was the only superhero he’d ever seen who made that cocky hero confidence look good.
Damn good.
But that didn’t mean he wasn’t going to wipe the floor with her. He was leaving here. With the secret location and schematics of Area Nine. No one was rotting in there any time soon. Especially not Mirabelle.
Miss I’m-Too-Sexy-For-My-Supersuit would just have to get used to disappointment.
Chapter Two
Hell Hath No Fury Like a Superheroine Scorned
Darla Powers had never been in more of a mood to kick some evil ass.
After the day she’d had, she needed the catharsis of a good fight, the virtuous rush of taking out a villain, and the sweet, sharp satisfaction of fulfilling her purpose and keeping the city safe. Justice therapy.
Time to commence righteous ass-kicking.
Even if that ass is seriously hot.
DynaGirl.
Black eyes met hers across the thoroughly ransacked Crypt, but other than that the villain didn’t move a single bulging muscle. There was no intimidation or surprise in his tone. No caught-in-the-act fear. She could almost have admired his cool if she hadn’t been determined to make him quake in his biker boots.
Darla drew herself up and struck her favorite fear-my-wrath pose. In the flesh.
His lips curved, a suggestive gaze raking her from head to toe. Lucky me.
She narrowed her eyes. Lucky? She was DynaGirl, dammit. Second generation superheroine and scourge of villains everywhere. Didn’t he realize he was supposed to be fearing her freaking wrath?
Darla refused to entertain even a sliver of doubt that she couldn’t handle him. Even if he was massive. And strong.
When she’d flown into the room, manipulating the gravitational forces around her so she touched down silently among the debris, she’d been breathless watching him shred the wall beside the safe like confetti and plunge his hand through layers of metal without flinching.
She’d never seen anyone move like that—fast, purposeful, with the singular confidence that no force on earth could stop him. It was…
A huge turn-on.
Especially for a girl who’d just been dumped because her dickhead not-quite-boyfriend felt emasculated by the fact that she could bench-press a Humvee. Yet another in a long line of promisingly confident men who wilted once the novelty of dating a super wore off and the reality of dating a chick with powers set in.
God forbid a girl be able to hold her own in an epic battle. Apparently it was too much to ask to meet a single man who wasn’t intimidated by her strength. Every super she knew was either banging his way through super groupies or hopelessly in love with the intrepid reporter he rescued on a weekly basis.
Or covered with drywall dust from a robbery in progress.
Big & Bad here looked like he didn’t know the meaning of the word emasculated. It was almost a pity she’d have to lock him up and throw away the key.
And you are?
She’d never cared about the names of the villains she apprehended in the past, but curiosity had dug in its claws where Big & Bad was concerned.
His smile was wicked, baiting her. Don’t you know?
No, dammit. Something about his eyes teased the edge of her brain, vaguely familiar, but Darla was certain she’d never seen this Lucifer-wicked man before. She wasn’t likely to forget him.
His tanned face was stark,