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    A Home for Jesse
    A Home for Jesse
    A Home for Jesse
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    A Home for Jesse

    By Iyana Jenna

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    Jesse Gray can’t get more unlucky. His roommate left him and he gets kicked out when he can’t afford the rent. Next, the owner of the fast food joint where he works part-time suddenly tells him he no longer works there. Jesse still has a job as a PA on a movie set but the pay will never be enough to afford even the cheapest room in Hollywood. There’s only one place left to stay the night -- in the park.

    Trey Miller is the star on a TV series where Jesse works. They bump into each other one night while leaving the set, and Trey thinks Jesse is much too good-looking to only be a PA. When he learns of Jesse’s financial condition, he offers a place to stay at his house. Having no other options, Jesse reluctantly accepts the offer, but what’s the catch?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJMS Books LLC
    Release dateMar 16, 2014
    ISBN9781611525632
    A Home for Jesse
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    Iyana Jenna

    I’m Iyana Jenna and you can call me Iyana. I like writing, romance, and man love so as you can see on this site, you’re mostly going to find m/m stories whether they are for adults or young adults. They are not going to be too heavy on explicit sex, though, as many say that my stories are considered sweet romance.

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      A Home for Jesse - Iyana Jenna

      A Home for Jesse

      By Iyana Jenna

      Published by JMS Books LLC at Smashwords

      Visit jms-books.com for more information.

      Copyright 2014 Iyana Jenna

      ISBN 9781611525632

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      All rights reserved.

      WARNING: This book is not transferable. It is for your own personal use. If it is sold, shared, or given away, it is an infringement of the copyright of this work and violators will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

      No portion of this book may be transmitted or reproduced in any form, or by any means, without permission in writing from the publisher, with the exception of brief excerpts used for the purposes of review.

      This book is for ADULT AUDIENCES ONLY. It may contain sexually explicit scenes and graphic language which might be considered offensive by some readers. Please store your files where they cannot be accessed by minors.

      This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are solely the product of the author’s imagination and/or are used fictitiously, though reference may be made to actual historical events or existing locations. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

      Published in the United States of America.

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      A Home for Jesse

      By Iyana Jenna

      Prologue

      Packing up his duffel and backpack—T-shirts, jeans, a couple of nice button-downs—he told himself over and over again that he was not running away. Anyway, at eighteen you couldn’t really call it running away, could you? He was practically an adult now. He had had enough of his mother. He’d tolerated it for years—doing what she wanted him to do, saying what she wanted him to say, never having his own mind. He hated himself for being the spineless dick that he was.

      Yes, he’d had enough of being the sweet little boy his mother had always wanted him to be, her sweet Jessie. His mother had always wanted a daughter as her second-born, his aunt had once told him, so much so that his parents were at a loss on what to name him when he was born, so certain they were going to have a girl.

      Huh. At least his mother didn’t dress him up as one and for that he was forever thankful. He looked girly enough as it was.

      Sometimes he wished he could be like his big brother, Josh, who was the real son, the monkey in the family.

      Josh could do whatever he wanted, getting into all sorts of pranks, coming back home all dirty and muddy, yet somehow always managed to get into their parents’, their mother’s, good books, whereas Jesse could never get away with anything like that. He was the one who always ended up playing with the girl cousins, entertaining them, singing, telling stories, playing the piano. He tried to get into sports while in high school, was in the baseball club for a while, but somehow ended up becoming one of the bell guards in the cheerleading squad instead. He was in the drama club as well and he loved that. He loved acting and he wanted, dreamed of, pursued a career in it but his mother wouldn’t hear of it, saying that real men didn’t do acting. Acting was for girls and sissies. Hello? Newsflash, Momma, I am your sweet little Jessie, remember?

      Things had become unbearable in the past few months. His mother hardly spoke to him, Dad and Josh were not taking sides, and Jesse felt so stifled by it all, so alone. He had no best friends to speak of, well, except for Charlie of course, his special friend that his mother knew nothing about, but even Charlie had left him for a career in music. There really was no one to talk to and Jesse was afraid he was going to have a breakdown if he stayed on.

      They’d had another huge fight last night when his mother had brought home application papers for UT. She wanted him to apply for courses that he had absolutely zero interest in and things had come to a head when she said that she wanted him to live at home and travel daily to school since UT wasn’t that far. She looked stunned when Jesse had simply left the room, slamming the door shut behind him. He had to leave, there was no other way.

      Looking at his childhood room for the last time, he felt warmth prickling at the back of his eyes. In spite of everything, he still loved his mother. But he had to do this for his own sanity and self-respect; he had to live his own dreams and prove to his mother that he could be his own person.

      Forgive me, Momma.

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      Chapter 1

      C’mon, Eliot! Jesse’s on the phone with his good-for-nothing agent who has never managed to get him anything better than being a fucking extra. It’s lunchtime. He’s at a payphone outside the set of the TV series he’s currently working on, as an extra of course, and he’s at the end of his tether what with there being no other job in sight for him.

      Jesse rubs the back of his neck. Things have turned from bad to worse since his so-called boyfriend dumped him a month ago. Max had simply walked out one day and left Jesse high and dry without enough money to pay for the apartment they’d rented together.

      The landlord has been hounding him for the rent money, saying that Jesse has to vacate the place unless he pays for another month. Jesse cringes at the thought of what he has in his wallet. There are the paychecks from his job as an extra-cum-PA and the part-time work that he’s been doing at a fast food joint, but

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