Page 109 of Rule 1: Never Accidentally Marry Your Teammate
Hopefully, the exercise rooms will be empty.
When I enter the exercise room and Finn isn’t beside me, my heart aches.
I miss him so much.
But Finn wasn’t who I thought he was. Finn wanted to annul the marriage. Not that I can blame him. I can’t hate him. Of course not.
I can only long and miss a person who I never truly knew. Will he be relieved when he sees I am gone?
But, of course, he will be.
Luke and Troy are both on treadmills, and I step onto the one in the far corner, as far from them as possible.
They flash absentminded smiles at me, then their gazes return to the view of the Charles. Maybe they haven’t read the news.
I walk fast on my treadmill, my face grim.
I am so not going to cry on a treadmill at work. No way. Impossible.
I fiddle with the controls, then jog.
My mind still fills with Finn. Finn whom I love. Finn who is not here. Finn whom I will never be with again.
My eyes burn, and I stab the buttons on the treadmill until I move up to a higher level. And then a higher one. And higher one.
I am running. My lungs burn, my muscles burn, my heart burns.
“Dude,” Troy’s voice interrupts my run. “You want to cool it?”
I jump. I didn’t notice him.
“Seriously,” Troy says.
I lower the treadmill settings, moving back into a jog.
“You’ve got to be careful on these.” Troy’s voice is casual, and he doesn’t meet my eye, but I don’t miss the look he exchanges with Luke. I wonder how many looks they were exchanging before Troy interrupted me. “I don’t want to explain to Finn that I let his husband get broken.”
Luke laughs. “He’d kill us.”
I don’t laugh. My fingers tighten around the treadmill, and though I don’t sway, it takes every ounce of concentration not to.
I think I get away with it.
I think my face is calm and placid.
Luke scrunches his lips and gazes at me. “Are you sure you’re okay?”
“Of course.”
“You don’t look fine,” Troy says.
“Um—”
Troy’s eyes widen. “Finn and you had a fight.”
“Well—”
“Dude, you gotta make up with him.” Troy shakes his head. “I mean, he probably is super annoying and everything. Totally get it. Set up the lighting for this video, set up the lighting for that video. Do you think the viewers will prefer a tropical smoothie or a berry smoothie?”
