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

The woman who argued against us during our court hearing today was standing at our front door. Everything in me wanted to slam the door in her face. She had no right to show up here after she stood in a courtroom and told me that I couldn’t take care of the kids. 


“Can I help you?” I asked, frantically trying to find my car keys. “This isn’t really a good time.” 


“I came to talk to you and your foster father,” she said, keeping herself out of the threshold of our house. 


Before I had the chance to tell her to get out of here, Seth came sprinting over to the door. 


“Wes and Jasper are on their way to help us look for Oliver!” Seth shouted. 


I turned back to the woman. She went straight into CPS mode, “Where is Oliver Anderson?” she asked. 


There’s no point in lying anymore. The verdict has been decided and this woman can’t do anything more to hurt us. 


Chapter 39: The Hunt For Innocence