All Blues
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Being the natural born rebel, I opted out of Granddad’s offer and chose a career in law enforcement instead. Looking back now, I realize I was always at a crossroads, but I never even thought about the intersection.
My grandparents offered to pay for my higher education, but I knew better than to allow it. Not that they would ever hold it over my head. Hell, they are the most loving and giving people I have ever known and they always support my dreams. No, if I had accepted Granddad’s offer it would have been my father who would see it as a slap in the face. According to him, I turned my back on the family when I passed on coming aboard.
Honestly, I don’t really believe that my father wanted me following in the family business. After moving our family to England when I was a child, he would spend time with my brothers drilling the ins and outs of Walker Corporation, but he never once asked me to join them. At the tender age of twelve Morgan was working on project ideas that could rival some of dad’s senior staff members. He is a true chip off the old block, in more ways than one. Marcus did not share in Morgan’s enthusiasm and is following me into law enforcement. Oh, I’m jumping too far ahead now. Let’s back up just a little.
After graduating from JSU with honors and subsequently the police academy, I was offered a coveted position on the Atlanta Police Departments Drug Task Force Unit. Because I look much younger than my chronological age, I was easily immersed into the drug scene and accepted as just another addict. At that point, my sweet grandparents insisted on providing a safe place for me to live locked behind the secured walls inside a gated community. Being a newly graduated student and too proud to ask my parents for access to my trust fund, I certainly couldn’t afford a place on my own until after I started earning a salary. Needless to say my grandparents refused to accept any compensation so I sullenly accepted their generous offer and moved into a lavish country home in Canton Georgia, a charming little city north of Atlanta.
Coincidentally, my best friend Kris was from the area so she moved in with me. Kris received her nursing degree from JSU and worked for a small family practitioner in town, but all along she had aspirations of landing her dream job at Canton General Children’s Hospital. Her desire to help others inspires me daily. Although we are as different as night and day, Kris is my soul sister and ours is a friendship that transcends eternity.
Since becoming friends with her, my good opinion of this shitty world greatly increased. She sees everything through rose-colored glasses and finds only the good in everyone. Kris tried to mesh some of her idealist ways into my realist heart. She failed. There isn’t a romantic bone in my body and I do not have time in my life for love. That is until my eyes landed on the deep haunting essence of Blues for the first time. All I know is those amazing sapphire tinted eyes look like coming home and destiny is proving her worth as a cruel manipulator by making my soul mate the one person I could never have.
My name is Samantha Walker, and this is my serendipitous story.