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    Unclaimed Baggage: Chapter One
    Unclaimed Baggage: Chapter One
    Unclaimed Baggage: Chapter One
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    Unclaimed Baggage: Chapter One

    By Emma Ryan

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    Waitress meets Garden State.

    Jenna moves home to care for her dying stepfather, but she ends up taking care of everyone. While struggling to say goodbye to the only father she has ever known, she unearths a family secret that manages to disrupt her already complicated life. And at what seems like the worst possible time, Jenna falls in love with a man who turns out to be the first person in her life who doesn’t want anything from her, but her.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKatie O'Rourke
    Release dateMar 29, 2018
    ISBN9781386418313
    Unclaimed Baggage: Chapter One

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      Unclaimed Baggage - Emma Ryan

      UNCLAIMED BAGGAGE

      By

      Emma Ryan

      ––––––––

      Chapter One

      You awake?

      Mm-hmm. Surfacing, Jenna tries to remind herself of her surroundings. She’s in bed with a man. A man, though not a heterosexual one. It has been years since that happened. She was still a kid then, sneaking out the basement window of her parents’ house, fumbling with buttons, rushing to get home before anyone knew she was gone. Had she ever slept with a man the whole night through?

      Beside her, Liam is sobbing, his curly black chest hair poking out the collar of his white t-shirt. He’s certainly a man, but it’s not the same. Jenna has never understood women who are attracted to gay men. Lying next to her, he could be her father, her brother, her son. Sexually speaking, they’re two positively charged magnets that naturally push away from one another. For altogether different reasons, they haven’t been sleeping through the night together either.

      I’m here, Jenna says. She glances at the clock. 4:02. She’s been asleep for about an hour. There’s still no light piercing the slats of the Venetian blinds. Jenna wants to paint the walls, but they’re just renting. She thinks she may be able to charm the landlord, but hasn’t gotten up the nerve. For now, she settles for the bland off-white and considers covering them with posters. They’re still getting settled.

      Liam sits up. Jenna puts her hand on his back and feels the

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