Mason by Nicki Rowe

Twenty-six-year-old Zachary “Axe” Knox knows that with a face like his no one is going to love him. He knows that he is going to be alone forever, so why bother trying to find someone to fall in love with? He’s okay with being alone. He likes it. Axe spends his days riding his bike and working at Thorns and Roses Ink, and he spends his nights with different men and women. Never the same man or woman twice. That is until Mason Dewitt comes along. From the second Axe sees Mason he knows that the twenty-one-year-old is going to turn his entire world upside down, and Axe is not prepared for it. Nothing could have prepared him for the clumsy man with teal eyes awakening feelings in him that he didn’t even know he had.

Axe suggests that they be friends with benefits, it’s not exactly what Mason is looking for with Axe, but he’s willing to do anything as long as it means he is in Axe’s bed, but soon Mason’s feelings become too much, and he knows that being just friends with benefits is not enough, he wants more. He doesn’t just want to be with Axe on a physical level, he wants to be with Axe on every level; he wants a relationship. Mason knows that there is more to Axe than the surly attitude and scars and the violent past that shaped Axe into the unsmiling, unhappy man who believes he’s not good enough to be in a relationship with Mason.

Mason wants to show Axe that he is a man that deserves his love….if only Axe will stop pushing him away, and embrace the feelings that he is starting to feel for Mason.