Chapter 43
MickyI started toward the hotel and then stopped. I was in Paris. I wasn't going to let another shitty guy drive me indoors. The tears kept falling, and I kept walking faster and faster. The stark winter beauty of the Tuileries passed in a blur until I reached a busy roadway with the Seine in my sights. Crossing the road, I hustled and found myself on a bridge that took me to the left bank and toward the neighborhood near the hotel.
My surroundings came into focus. I’d wandered onto the Pont des Arts, the bridge in Paris famously covered in love locks. Couples from all over the world came here to affix a padlock with their names on it to signal their love to the world. Perfect. I’d heard the city was going to cut them all down because it was becoming an unsightly mess. I suppo
