The Trials of Gregg

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Authors: Stephani Hecht
Tags: Gay, Paranormal, Erotic Romance, glbt, shapeshifter
padded, and he wore a large cloak that had a hood on it. This guy was also armed to the teeth. He had weapons strapped to every place imaginable, and John was willing to bet the man had just as many that were hidden away.
    The newcomer sat down in one of the empty chairs and let out a sigh. “Tell me why I do this job again?”
    “Because you’re a Leopard, and you love to kill?” Gregg said.
    The Leopard tilted his head to the side. “Oh yeah, I guess you do have a point there.”
    Gregg turned to John. “This is Shane. Shane, this is John, he’s one of the lost shifters that was just recently found. I’m his mentor for at least the next week. So be nice to him.”
    Shane made a grunting noise. “When am I not nice?”
    That question brought out a barrage of examples from the group of men, all of them having a story that was worse than the last one. Although John had to admit some of them were kind of funny. Especially the one where Shane had left a Horse shifter’s head in Ash’s bed, ala Godfather style and all because Ash had the gall to call him cray-cray.
    “To be fair, that Horse shifter had it coming to him. He was dealing in slave trading, and there were kids involved,” Shane pointed out.
    “But did you have to leave the head in my bed?” Ash asked.
    “Yes, I’m full-blown crazy, not cray-cray. Next time get it right.”
    John couldn’t help it, but as loony as this Shane guy was, John was really beginning to like him. Then he looked over at Gregg who was laughing at one of the jokes somebody made. The smile of Gregg’s face seemed to lighten up the whole room. It made John think that maybe, just maybe, being a shifter wouldn’t turn out to be such a bad thing after all.

Chapter Five
     
     
    After lunch, Gregg took John back to Mitchell’s office. If John wanted to be a soldier like he claimed, then the sooner they told the coalition leader, the better. A huge part of Gregg couldn’t help but hope John would be assigned to his team. That way, even after the mentorship was over, they would be spending a lot of time together.
    It had been a long time since a man had sparked such an interest from Gregg. And it wasn’t just because John was fresh meat, either. There was something about John that was special. In the few short hours they’d spent together, Gregg already knew he wanted to get closer to John. Or at the very least have some down and dirty fun with him.
    This time when they went to Mitchell’s office, the leader was alone. He acted a bit surprised to see the pair of them, but he recovered quickly.
    “Everything is going okay, I hope?” Mitchell asked.
    “Great, Gregg has been doing a fantastic job of showing me around. He just thought it would be best if I came to you now and told you that I wanted to serve in your ranks. That way, you can start working out where I would be and such,” John said.
    Mitchell smiled. “I can’t say that I’m upset to hear that. The general had only great things to say about your combat skills. Plus, I heard about the little show you and Gregg put on at the shooting range. There aren’t that many who could keep up with him like that. I was hoping you would decide to join our ranks.”
    Gregg ducked his head so Mitchell and John wouldn’t see the blush that was sure to be there. He didn’t get compliments very often, so he didn’t know how to react whenever he got one. He was more used to slurs and mean comments being tossed his way. All thanks to his father.
    Which reminded him, he only had until after dinner to be with John, then he had to head home to make sure Tiffy was fed. At school, she got lunch, but once classes let out, she was on her own.
    Looking over at John and seeing the bags under the man’s eyes, Gregg realized that, for at least today, it wouldn’t be an issue to call it an early day. But Gregg would have to figure out something for the other days. Maybe he would just have to bring Tiffy along. It was probably against

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