Breaking Strings – Becca Seymour

“I booked the room till ten.” “You bribed someone.” “Booked,” I repeat innocently before adding, “With coffee.” He huffs, almost a laugh. His hand brushes mine on the railing. Not on purpose. Not not on purpose. The tiny arc jumps through my skin and sets up shop behind my sternum. Room 3C is the one with the busted fluorescent that dims whenever the AC kicks on. It’s also the one farthest from the hallway window, which means fewer curious faces—less chance of a random trumpet player clocking the captain of the Panthers slipping into a practice room with the tattooed bassist.

I killed two birds with one room: bad light, good privacy. I close us in and click the tiny slide lock, the one the fire marshal pretends doesn’t exist. Ollie exhales; some piece of him drops its shoulders. “Hi,” I say at normal volume for the first time. “Hi,” he says back, and it hits harder than it should.

We do the inventory because we always do: ear to the door, quick glance at the window, the automatic check of phones in pockets set to silent. Then I pull the secondhand acoustic from the stand and hand it over. He takes it like it’s a living thing. He’s careful with gear in a way that makes me want to kiss him just for understanding.

“I can only stay till nine fifty,” he says, settling onto the low bench. “Film review at ten.” I drop onto the amp opposite, ignoring the sting of disappointment that he has to leave early as I sling my own guitar into place. “You’ll be gone by nine forty-eight,” I promise. “I’ll even walk you out and pretend I don’t know you.”

Rafe Ortiz should be focused on the music—on the gigs, the grind, and the industry eyes finally turning his way. Instead, every lyric he writes leads back to one person: Oliver Marshall, the golden-boy basketball captain with a body built for highlight reels and a secret smile meant only for him. Behind the court and the stage lights, they burn. In the shadows, they fall. And no one can know. Ollie has a reputation to protect and parents who expect perfection.

Rafe has a band depending on him and a career poised to explode. Rules say they should walk away. Desire says they won’t survive it if they do. When March Madness collides with a life-changing showcase opportunity, their stolen nights and breathless encounters become a crossroads—love or legacy, truth or secrecy, each choice carrying consequences that could break them.

Or bind them tighter than ever. BREAKING STRINGS is an addictive, emotional, HFN MM romance about two men fighting for dreams, for each other, and for the life they’re terrified to admit they want. 1kitap1.com/en Chords & Courts Breaking Strings | Shattered Hoops | Mending Hearts Monsters & Mates Solan | Kael | Varek Zone Defense No Take Backs | No More Secrets | No Wrong Moves | No Backing Down | Zone Defense: Complete Box Set Fast Break Rules, Schmules!

| Facts, Smacts! | Regular Smegular! | Easy, Schmeasy! True-Blue Let Me Show You | I’ve Got You | Becoming Us | Thinking It Over | Always For You | It’s Not You | Our First & Last | Next For Us Outback Boys Stumble | Bounce | Wobble Fangs & Felons Thicker Than Water | Weaker Than Instinct | Brighter Than Fear | Stronger Than Fate | Softer Than Stone Stand-Alone Contemporary Not Used To Cute | High Alert | Realigned | Amalgamated | Under the Blazing Stars | Best Kind of Awkward | Tastes Like Sugar | Falling For 42 | Caden & Theo | Full Tilt 1 1kitap11kita m/en 1kitap1.com/en Breaking Strings © 2026 by Becca Seymour All rights reserved.

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