Chapter 23

“I’ll need someone to carry the rower with me in a bit,” Jack called to them as he turned away from the mushy stuff.

“He’s such a guy.” Francis chuckled.

“Oh yeah. At least he’s grown out of the frat boy phase.”

Francis groaned. “I remember that!”

He’d met Rita when they were working at the same hospital. She was a neonatal nurse and he’d been at the ER. They’d met Jack while Francis had been cleaning up his cuts and scrapes after he’d taken a dive off a balcony at his frat house. Rita had come by to ask Francis if he’d had a break yet, and Jack had taken one look at her and… well, once he’d sobered up, she’d agreed to go on a date with her despite the fifteen-year age difference. The rest was history.

To think that Francis had let Josh drive the couple away still horrified him and made him mad in equal measure.

“He’s been moaning about gaining weight though, so maybe the machine will help,” she mused out loud.

Francis grinned. “Put it in front of the TV and put a game on?”