Padraig rubbed his face and tried to concentrate on the lab results of one of his dog patients. Somehow the young man from the diner, Kaos, kept appearing in his thoughts. Padraig wasn’t sure why. Sure, Kaos had lovely bone structure, and his blond hair and lightly tanned skin were appealing, but Padraig had noticed men before without it meaning anything.
Hell, he could tell Makai was handsome in his own way, and he was a relative newcomer in town too. Kaos couldn’t be much older than Emil, for f**k’s sake. Even if there was interest—and there certainly wasn’t—Padraig didn’t care for younger men. Twenty-odd years was much too big of an age difference. He wasn’t going to be anyone’s daddy.
Besides, he’d had love once. The kind that was supposed to last for a lifetime. And it had, if he wa
