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Shadow Born: Book 1 of the Shadow-Borne Chronicles
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round body.   Not just that, but now he also had chest hair.   Alec examined himself in the mirror once more and wondered what the hell was happening to him.   He wasn’t complaining.   He was just confused.   It was like going through puberty all over again.   His body was changing, but changing in a good way and he liked it.
    He wondered if the changes were from working in the warehouse. He was fairly active there, picking up boxes, climbing ladders, carrying orders back and forth and generally walking all over the vast cavernous space.   Maybe that coupled with the stress of what he’d gone through with that crazy Clarissa woman had curbed his appetite enough that the exercise could catch up and burn some fat off.   He certainly noticed that he’d had more energy lately.   For the first time since Alec could remember, he wasn’t disgusted by his naked image in the mirror.   He whistled a merry tune as he jumped in the shower and turned on the water.
    After a nice hot shower, he dried himself off and threw the towel over the shower rack.   He stood once more before the bathroom mirror admiring his form.   He had planned on shaving but now that he looked at his face, turning it this way and that, he decided he liked the way he looked with the dark stubble covering his jaw and upper lip.   For the first time in his life, Alec actually felt masculine.   He felt like a real man.   He shook his head and brushed his teeth quickly.  
    Alec opened up the top drawer on his dresser and fished out a pair of nondescript jeans.   He put them on, zipped and buttoned them and as he walked over to the closet to get a shirt, they sagged around his waist, almost falling to the floor.   Damn , he thought, I have lost weight .   He was actually going to have to break down and buy new clothes.   Excellent.
    He grabbed a belt and tried to cinch it tight.   There weren’t enough holes, so he trudged into the kitchen with his shirt thrown over his shoulder to get a knife and create a new hole.   He certainly didn’t want to flash his new class mates.   That made him chuckle.   Of all the things that Alec had been afraid of happening in his life, loose jeans falling around his ankles had never been one.
    Alec finished dressing, ran some product through his hair to make it look like he had just rolled out of bed, and grabbed his backpack as he headed out the door.   He walked the short distance to the bus stop and waited.   He could have driven his old beat up car, but he enjoyed the night air and the walk.   Besides, the community college was close, so the bus ride was short.
    When Alec arrived, he made his way through the campus, weaving between buildings and complexes heading towards his first night class.   He had already ridden the bus here during the day and made sure he knew where the buildings for his classes were.   And of course his first one was all the way on the other side of the campus from where the bus stop was located.   In the bright light of day it had never occurred to him that he would have to traverse the campus in almost complete darkness, otherwise he might have re-thought the whole thing and driven.
    Alec had been looking forward to this moment for a while, but now that it was here, he was nervous.   He wasn’t nervous about the class itself or even going back to school.   Part of his nervousness stemmed from being alone and having to walk across the campus in the dark.   It reminded him of the parking lot the night he was abducted.   He kept flicking his eyes around and checking behind himself nervously.   He was also nervous about being around a bunch of people. Alec had always been a loner, even from an early age.   He had learned quickly that people would pick on you and make fun of you if you were different and so he stayed quiet and kept to himself.   Now he was going back into a class situation where he didn’t know a single soul.
    Alec entered Carpenter Hall and immediately
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