Free Her Superhero Lover: A BWWM BBW Billionaire Superhero Romance by BWWM Club, Shifter Club, Lionel Law

expected to go her entire time with Grady without
meeting at least one ex-girlfriend of his. "It's nice to meet
you, Miss Mendoza. I enjoy watching your work on Action Five."
    "Really? Thanks," Maria said, giving her the first genuine
smile she'd seen all night. "I have to admit, I caught one of
your shows last year, it was really good. When I saw that you and
Grady were seeing each other, I was surprised, but then again, him
and I were an unlikely pair for a while too. Sorry Grady, did I let
the cat out of the bag?"
    "Hardly Maria," Grady
said with a well worn groan. "I do think though I'm going to get
a t-shirt for these events that says Yes, I did date Maria
Mendoza for three weeks. It
would save a lot of time."
    Maria chuckled and shook her head. She leaned over, closer to Renee,
and lowered her voice. "To be honest, I love just getting his
goat like that. The unflappable Grady Voelker, taken down by a woman
like me. It's fun."
    "Well, he is cute when he's turning red," Renee said back,
smiling at Grady. Sitting up, the two women smiled more comfortably
than she had all night. "By the way, I've really been enjoying
your series on The Horseman. How'd you get the story?"
    "Honestly? Pissed off my editor," Maria said. "He
wanted to assign me to a muckraking story, but one of the companies
involved is my grandfather's. I couldn't do that, and I told him to
keep his lies to himself. Because of that, he put me on the crank
story beat for a month. The Horseman story just dropped into my lap
while I was on that desk, and I ran with it. To be honest, that video
of him doing his thing really made the story, and took the story from
one local interest piece to real news. With it already in my lap, my
editor couldn't pull it from me without a real reason, and he didn't
have it. I'm looking forward to him really eating crow when the
SCalies come out in December."
    "SCalies?" Renee asked, puzzled.
    Maria nodded, not offended in the least. "Southern California
News Media Association Awards. They tried calling them the SCNMAAs,
but calling an award something that sounds like a cross between skin
and enema just didn't work. So, SCalies it is. Still a stupid name,
but who knows? I may get out of San Diego and into one of the
national beats from The Horseman. My agent already got a call from
MSNBC."
    "Wow, best of luck," Renee said. She could see Maria on
cable news, she had the looks that the stations wanted. However, she
didn't look the MSNBC type, in her opinion. CNN or FoxNews with their
trend towards knockout news anchors was more her guess. "So any
guesses as to who The Horseman is?"
    "None," Maria said. "I'll be honest, I've had to edit
some of what I've put on the air about him as it is. I mean, some of
the stories I've heard, they say he could fly. If I put that on the
air, you know I'd be back covering dog adoptions and other hard
hitting news before the show even finished. Until I get video of this
guy doing anything other than kicking street gang ass, I'm playing it
very conservatively in what I say. But yeah, I'd love to meet him
some day. To be able to interview a real life superhero? If he's half
the man some of these stories say he is, he'd make the Olympic
decathlon champion look like a first grader playing against the NFL."
    "Perhaps some day you will talk with him," Grady said,
"but I think they want to start the auction."
    The auction turned out to be more fun that Renee had expected.
Starting with the lower value items (her session, unfortunately, went
third in the auction. On the other hand, she did get five thousand
for it), each item was brought up, with the main rules being that
nobody could bid on an item they themselves had donated. There was
apparently some sort of top donor award up for grabs, and the
organizers didn't want someone to bid themselves into the award.
    Grady joined in on some of the bids, never actually winning any but
driving up prices on items she knew he had no interest in just to get
others to