All Chapters of Meant To Be: Chapter 1 - Chapter 7

The sky was dark gray that terrible morning; the wind was picking up and getting stronger by the minute. She held the collar of her coat and ran through the roof of the five-story building to the edge, she tilted her head back seeing the angry rolling clouds announcing the storm, and the same was happening inside her head. Looking into the horizon, staring at nothing, a flashback of her life passed before her eyes. Every breathing moment in her existence had been a terrible mistake. For too long she had been living in a hell, now she had the chance to break free. To finally do some good! Closing her eyes, she remembered those dark bluish ones looking at her full of disappointment and disbelief, she had put them there, and it was too much to bear. When her legs gave up on her, she fell to her knees, her life until that point had been an awful series of tragedies, and she had n

Justin was bordering on insanity, so he fled to his cabin before he behaved like a monster. He didn’t even know how he got there. When he finally came to his senses, it was already late morning the next day, there was an empty bottle of whiskey on the bed with him, it was almost noon and his mind was in utter chaos. He felt desperate. For the first time, he didn’t know what to do. It was impossible for Claire to be alive. No one would survive that fall. How? How is she here? Tears of anger and frustration came to his eyes and for a long time, he was just there, lost in his thoughts. After a while he forced himself back from his ordeal, showered, got dressed and left. It was evening already, and he had stalked her the whole afternoon. Justin was a distance away behind a few colu

Ella went straight to the bathroom, turned on the lights and looked at herself in the mirror. Her eyes were dark green, her face red. She touched her swollen lips and closed her eyes, remembering Justin's lips on her. God! What have I done? This is not me… this is nuts! “What am I going to do? I’m stuck on a ship with a handsome, crazy guy who thinks I’m somebody else!” she said out loud. “And worse, it seems I can’t tear my eyes away from him,” Ella let it out a nervous laugh. She washed her face, put her pajamas on, and laid down on her bed. She was appalled with herself. Staring at the ceiling in the dark, listening to the sound of the sea outside, Ella never felt this way, at least not with Tom. What was wrong with her? There’s something compelling about him. Something she can’t put her finger on. Maybe his troubled eyes, she knows suffering, she had her own share of it, and somehow she connected with him, she just didn’t know why, bu

“Ella! Ella!” Valentina called a few times and no answer. “What’s wrong with you?” she said  without much patience. “Oh… yes… I'm sorry… What were you saying?" Ella replied confused. "Meeting. New client?" "What's wrong with you? You're acting weird since you've gotten back from Spain," she said with concern in her voice. "Lately, you lost focus. You space out all the time and you seem you can't concentrate anymore!" she mentioned suspiciously "What happened on board of that ship, Ella?"Ella gave Valentina a hopeless look and a long sigh. “We really need to talk, I feel like I’m going to burst.” and she put her hand in her chest suddenly stopping talking like if it hurt her."I'm worried about you. You haven’t been yourself at all.”"I know. Just a little more patience, please? For now, can we just go back to work? What about the client?" she pleaded with Valentina and her eyes full of tears. Seen her distress Valentina nodded.