Bending Ridge by J. D. Light

Hanson Rodgers
My dad’s best friend is big and burly and gorgeous and has the ability to make my harpy’s blood––yes, I’m a male harpy––boil. When he offered my brother and I a job on Terra Mortis, I knew it was probably a bad idea, no matter how much I wanted to live on the island and be a part of a world where everyone was as much different as they were the same. It was just too much temptation to live and work with a man I had wanted as mine since I was a teenager. And boy was I right. Now that I’m grown up, all I want is for Ridge to see me as something other than his best friend’s son. Too bad Ridge is nearly two-hundred years old and completely set in his ways. Once a son of his best friend, always a son of his best friend. It’s enough to make me want to smoke all the cigarettes on Terra Mortis. And I just might… because it makes Ridge growl when I poison my lungs.

Ridge Blakely
Once a son of my best friend, always a son of my best friend. The fact that Hanson Rodgers is a full grown man with full grown man parts does not change the fact that he is the son of my best friend, no matter how blown away my antavros beast and I are by him. Unfortunately, when it comes to the little blond beauty who likes to smoke just to make me growl and drink just to hear me cuss, I have little to no control over my reactions and I just know one of these days he is going to push me to do something incredibly stupid, like kiss his brains out. Yeah… kiss.