Alan Sommers has been the personal assistant to attorney Kincaid Mallory for the last three years. He’s been in love with his boss almost as long. He hasn’t said or done anything to reveal his feelings to his boss because he thinks his boss is still mourning the loss of Ben, his partner of ten years to cancer. Plus Alan doesn’t think that he’s the type of man that Kincaid would be attracted to. When Kincaid goes out of town for a business trip ans to meet an old lover, he asks Alan if he would house and pet sit for him because his sister, who usually does it for him, is going to Europe and can’t do it. Alan agrees and settles in. While he’s walking the dogs he meets Kincaid’s next-door neighbor Rick who asks him out for dinner. Alan agrees to go on the date but when he asks Kincaid what he knows about his neighbor, he tells him that he does drugs and has wild parties. He doesn’t know whether to believe him or not. Alan decides to make use of his boss’s Jacuzzi and falls asleep in the tub and is awakened by the sound of someone coming through the front door. Kincaid has returned from his business trip a day early. Kincaid backs Alan up against the kitchen counter and kisses the living daylights out of him and tells him that he has been fighting his attraction to him for months because he didn’t want to be with someone who works for him, but realizes that he can’t stay away from him any more. He also tells Alan that he will find him a different job in the firm so that there won’t be any conflict at work. I really loved this because it tells a story of how a young man who thinks that what he wants will always be beyond his reach but it can come to you when you least expect it.

This is a very sweet story about a guy falling for his boss, and ending up doing more than house sitting for the guy while he is at a conference. The main characters were fun, as were the secondary ones, the menagerie of pets made me smile, and the ending was wonderfully fairy tale like. Alan is a very dedicated personal assistant who has been manfully fighting the feelings for his boss for years. Kinkaid lost his high school sweetheart and partner to cancer, and Alan thinks he has no chance to ever mean as much to Kinkaid. He has these discussions with a fellow personal assistant that made me smile, and the lunch with his best friend was fun as well. When Alan finally goes to house and pet sit for Kinkaid, the pets turned out to have real personalities as well. Too cute! Kinkaid is a bit distant, we don’t find out much about him. His comments about his neighbor Rick, who asked Alan out were hilarious, and when he comes back to surprise Alan, he does and says all the right things. If your looking for a short, sweet read that will make you smile, if you like the scenario of an employee falling for his boss, and if you enjoy stories where even the pets have real personalities, you will probably enjoy this short story.