Creative Writing: Alice Walker

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Walker sat at his impressive desk in his impressive office, with the Chagall painting, Eame’s chairs, with first edition books lining his bookshelves, not seeing any of it he was glaring down at the presentation folder brought back from the meeting with WestMat, running his finger absently over the who we are page. Wavery Matthew’s smiling photo stared back up at him.

Over the years, he’d thought about her occasionally, but not enough to ask about her to anyone. The sex had been mind blowing. A young, twenty-two year old at the time, he had just been coming to terms with the kind of man he was; he’d been dating for years, all kinds of girls and women had been throwing themselves at him since he was 14. They tend to see his good looks and
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Walker was informed he would be taking over. He had been busy enjoying the over confidence of a wicked combination of youth, good looks and too much power. He realized now how much of an asshole he had been, impressed with himself, his life and everything his wealthy life put at his feet. He had always been a hard worker, as the only son and an adopted one at that he had always felt the need to prove himself. He was fairly young when he realized that his parents had simply needed an heir to take over the family business, unable to have children and blessed with a tremendous amount of money, they went out and bought themselves one, – him. So early on and for a number of years the hard work was a way he thought to prove himself worthy of being their son. The sports, the straight A’s everything he did for a while was to buy their love, get them to show up at one of his football games, show up to a teachers conference, hold his hand. They approved of him, his actions, the way he looked or performed, he knew that but there was never a smile or a hug or a book read to him as a child, they just didn’t really do emotions of any kind. About the time he met Waverly he was beginning to realize that the asshole behavior just wasn’t working for him. He needed to change

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