Larry’s words were rattling around Patrick’s head. He’d been on the receiving end of more ‘life lesson’ lectures than he cared to count, from concerned teachers, school guidance staff and administrators, supervisors, his parents, but it had all sounded like white noise to him, something to tie him down with when all he wanted was to be free.
He was beginning to realize that complete freedom, from responsibility, from work, from whatever he thought he was running from, wasn’t all he thought it was going to be. His mind wandered back to Philippe suddenly, the way Philippe had given up what Patrick considered a glamourous job, where women threw themselves at him and his boss gave him free drinks, to work at a parking garage, then to his own parents, working jobs they barely liked to put brea
