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 kids finally went back to school. Now that they don’t have to switch schools, the kids were excited to go back.


Derek wouldn’t admit this, but I know he was losing his mind without school. He was procrastinating his packing because he was sitting in his room going over schoolwork. 


It was Saturday afternoon, the kids and I decided to take Ares for a walk.


We were moving into our new house with Wes tomorrow. We only needed to pack the essentials because Eric was still getting offers on the house. Our house right now is going to be a storage space until Eric can sell it. 


“Is it just me or is the sun shining just the tiniest bit brighter?” Serena asked, walking down the street with her arms spread out like a bird. 


“It’s just you,” Seth said. “Now stop sunbathing in the middle of winter and help me with these stupid crutches.” 


Chapter 48: Last Night