The pub was quiet, the lunch rush was over, and the assistant manager wanted to train the new team leaders in how to manage a pub when Erik was at the area meetings and he wasn’t working.
So Erik got kicked out.
“Just naff off home!” Tom said. “Go be a family man or whatever it is you are now!”
Which was how he found himself in the hall, holding his keys, and staring at his boyfriend lying flat on the floor weightlifting their baby and being filmed by Lauren.
“What on earth?” he asked, and Lauren erupted into gales of laughter.
“She loves it!” she said.
Andreas grinned. He was wearing his gym kit, and the hair around his temples was damp. When Erik glanced at the TV, it was switched off, but an empty DVD case lay open in front of it. A fitness video.
“Should you really be working ou
