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incompetent, this is New Orleans, the Deep South. He’s a powerful man and as much as it may distress you to acknowledge it, he has much deeper ties and more powerful allies than either of you. It’s the ‘Good Ol’ Boy Club’ down here and he is a dyed-in-the-wool lifetime member. The Governor himself changes laws to suit your father, so don’t fool yourself that you can beat him and have his wishes overturned. Marry the girl, I hear you’ve been seeing her anyway. If not you then Walden, maybe he should step up to the plate. If you both meet your father’s terms with one of you marrying the girl Alaina, you’ll inherit equally and all will be well. Just do it, we’re talking about a ten digit sum of money here and suffice it to say neither one of you has any idea how to live without that kind of money. Make your father happy, get married, give him a grandchild and divorce after he’s gone. Otherwise the ladies over at Trudeau Hall are going to be a whole lot richer in the end. I’ll say goodnight now, it’s a bit of a tricky drive back into the city once the sun goes down and the mist starts rising off the bayou.”
    “Mr. Warren I’d like to ask you something,” William said when he and Walden walked with him out to his car in the settling twilight. “You’ve known my father since his college days, isn’t that right? It’s common knowledge that my mother was pregnant with me when he married her and that it all happened when he and Liza and my mother were friends at Tulane. But if he was so in love with Liza how did he let that happen? I’d really like to know what caused that lapse in his judgment, why did he sleep with my mother and risk losing the love of his life?”
    “Well now, William, that’s a question a lot of folks would like to know the answer to. As for me, I’m his attorney and there exists between us a bond of client privilege that cannot be breached. Of course you could always put that question to him, couldn’t you? Now I’ll be on my way, good night,” Mr. Warren said, settling into his car and sighing deeply as the memories of those long ago carefree college days flooded over him. Liza, she had been such a wonder and it was a certainty that every male on campus had been in love with her. Her love for William Warfield the third had burned white-hot as surely as his desire flamed for her. But they had both been distracted for a day or a night or who knew how long and she had left him bereft and miserable and the rest was history.
    “Are we going to be civil about this Wills? Are you and I and Alaina going to sit down together and discuss Father’s wishes? If not then I’ll speak to her on my own and you can do the same, but I hope you’ll be upfront about what’s going on. Realistically, this whole scenario could send her running for sunny California, so we should probably be smart about the way we break the news to her. I don’t know if this angel of a girl is a just passing fling for you, I doubt that you’re even sure at this point. But I am certain about my feelings for her and I’d say from her eyes and her lips and her body’s reaction when we were together at the club that she is attracted to me on more than one level,” Walden said as he slid behind the wheel of the black Maserati he had claimed as his own.
    “Do you live to piss me off these days Walden? Because you are sure as fuck doing a good job of it. I’m happy as hell that you’re getting your life together but you’re not taking something— someone who’s already mine in order for you to stop the voices from screaming inside your head. You seem to be doing great but I think you need to give it some time and make sure the old demons have been put to rest. I swear to God I hope you’re done with the past, I’ll throw a party and invite all of New Orleans to celebrate your return to the real world. Until then, there’s no reason for you to talk to or see Allie and no matter what, Walden, she and I