Because his pool is untended and filthy, romance author Robert Fine needs to hire a pool boy for the summertime position at his estate. So at the beginning of summer, he places an ad for a pool boy to hire. Enter Kent Tacoma, an ex-Navy stud, handsome, who lands an interview. Almost immediately Robert enjoys his company and himself, hiring Kent on the spot. As Tacoma tends the pool, Robert cannot keep his hungry eyes off the young man. All he can think about is his desire. Unfortunately, Tacoma starts to break Robert’s house rules with a local bad boy named Katz Strong, Tacoma’s opposite. Soon a jealous Robert is convinced Tacoma is under Katz’s bad influence. As Tacoma pulls away from Robert and grows closer to Katz. Robert finds his rage building. Can’t the three men just get along? As summer comes to a close, Tacoma becomes the center of everyone’s attention. Whose heart will survive the heated summer?

The Pool Boy

Like a lifeguard, I pulled Tacoma through the water with me and to the surface of the pool in search of air…oxygen. In doing so, I gripped his body tight against my own in hopes of not losing a grip on his heavy and bulky frame. The last thing I wanted to do was accidentally release him into the deep end of the pool.


Once breaking through the pool’s surface, bobbing and kicking to keep the two of us afloat, I listened to him choke on water mixed with air. Hell-bent on the idea of his survival, I called out to him, “I won’t let you drown!” and swam him to the side of the pool, pushed his bulk onto the cement patio surrounding the pool area, and jumped out of the water after him. Placing him on his back, listening to him gurgle something, I started CPR on him. I compressed his chest in the right spot, blew air into his lungs, pressed and blew, pressed and blew, pressed and blew.


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