Dan didn’t return to the party. The emergency call had taken a long time. It’s just as well, Dan thought. It was too strange to be there without Chrissy. And then there’s Bill.
Dan didn’t know how to interpret Bill’s conversation and actions. If Bill was intimating what Dan thought he was, then Dan wasn’t sure how he felt. He found Bill attractive. But he’d been with four men since the beginning of summer, and fallen in love with three of them. Dan had vowed he was going to put things on hold for a while in order for him to sort things out. Besides, Bill and Dan both worked at All Creatures. Not good, Dan thought.
The next day proved to be a busy one for the vet. His beeper went off at four in the morning: another emergency. They kept coming all Sunday long. By the time he got home it wa
