Taking care of children is hard enough when you're a parent. It's harder when you're a seventeen-year-old high schooler.

Lucy Hastings is the caretaker of five foster siblings -Seth, Serena, Derek, Oliver, and Ariel. The six of them have been together for years, under the love of their foster parents. When their foster mom passes away their foster dad needs to work more to make ends meet. The kids want to be a family, so Lucy steps up to take care of the kids.

Keeping everybody around her at arm's length, Lucy finds it difficult to hide her true self from new student, Wesley Reynolds. He seems to be everywhere, why can't she escape him?

Lucy has denied feelings of affection for anyone. She pushes away anyone who could care about her. What's she to do when she can't deny her growing feelings for Wesley Reynolds?

Meant To Be is created by Samantha Auz, an eGlobal Creative Publishing signed author.

Meant to Be

I paced around the hospital waiting room for over an hour. The doctors refused to give me an update on Seth’s condition. Seth still has the last name of Gomez, so the reception is claiming that I’m not immediate family. Serena has been in the room a few times, but she says that he still hasn’t woken up yet. 


“Can I please have an update on Seth Gomez?” I begged. 


“I’m sorry, but I can only give patient information to family,” the woman said. 


“Where do you get off on telling me that we aren’t a family?” I questioned, sounding harsher than I meant to. Mouthing off to hospital employees isn’t going to help me get what I want. “Have you never met foster siblings before? We’re just as real as you and your siblings are.” 


“I don’t have any siblings,” she said with a monotonous expression. 


“Well, I’m sorry to hear that. That’s a tragedy in and of itself,” I snarled. 


Chapter 35: A Very Merry Christmas Surprise