Broken By You
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Last published Sun, Sep 20, 2026
Eric Stirling didn't ask for this.
Not the divorce, not the move from Connecticut to Marble Ridge, Texas. Not the father who was better at drinking than parenting. And certainly not James Sentry: the mayor's golden-boy son, captain of everything, adored by an entire town that's never once told him no.
Eric decides that he hates him within the first thirty seconds of meeting him. Things should be pretty simple after that.
Unfortunately for Eric, it never is.
Between group projects that he wished he didn't have to do, a friend group he was supposed to hate, and a rivalry that keeps refusing to stay just a rivalry, Eric finds himself pulled into a life he didn't plan for. One where people actually show up.
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James Sentry has spent his whole life being exactly who Marble Ridge expects him to be-the perfect son, the perfect student, the perfect heir to a last name everyone already has an opinion about. He's never had a reason to want something that wasn't already handed to him.
Until the new kid looks at him like he's not impressed at all.
After a lifetime of being praised for simply existing, disapproval feels foreign. But surprisingly, James doesn't find himself complaining. Instead, he finds himself craving it.
Craving him.
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