A Calm Water

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Christian
It has been six months since my love died. I have had plenty of family to take me out on my boat. I watch as the blue crystal clear waters remind me of Anastasia. This is very nice and I am being waited on by my family. I look up and see Anastasia holding out her hand and whispers time to be with us Christian. I go with her as I breath my last breath on our favorite place to be on our boat in crystal blue waters.
Elliott
I look back at Christian and he has a smile on his face, but his glass has fell from his hands, I try to wake him up, but he has stopped breathing. I go tell the Captain that we need to head back to the dock. I explain that Christian has passed away. Annette has covered Christian up and placed a hat on his head, so he looks asleep.
He was buried by Anastasia and when the will was read he divided his assets equally between all of us. He left me and Annette the letters per Anastasia's great grandmothers request. I am not sure I want to read them.
Annette
I read the letters and they are mixed with good and bad things. The prediction that Christian would die on a boat surrounded by his loved ones and blue calm waters was right on the money. I am not sure about reading these and passing them on to the next generation. Stella is the next on the list and the cardinal painting goes with them. I checked the wings again and it has Stellas name as well. Anastasia was there as well. I can't see any other names yet.
I finally read the letters completely and the new one that was mailed to me. Who was this great grandmother of Anastasia's.
Stella
Annette died in a car crash three years after Elliott passed away. I inherited a painting and a bunch of letters from my great great grandmother Anastasia. Mom was always getting letters from her every year from a law firm. I open the newest letter without looking at the ones before it. The first thing it said was I knew you wouldn't read the prior ones Stella Grey. Now go back and read all the letters before you continue reading this letter. I read where Theodore has invented several new devices that will advance medical treatments for brain aneurysms. He started working on it immediately after Laura's death. He is training all the new tech guys and gals now.
Robert
I am going to retire soon and find a gold digger to have fun with. I have no shame and made a lot of money with help from dad. He told me to never allow these gold diggers to have the upper hand if that is what I am doing. I definitely have a concrete will leaving everything to my family and a charity for the homeless. I am not getting married and going on a cruise is a good idea. Stella had a huge smile on her face as I said good bye at my departure. The first night out I found miss right and her name was of all things miss Anastasia Rose Right. We hit it off and by the time we were heading back to Seattle we were married by the ships captain. I have to ask Stella if she somehow knew this. I never thought about this but my wife is Anastasia Grey now. What are the odds? Fate is fickle.
Stella
I can't believe the letter was right. I have read all the previous letters and looked at the painting as Annette said in her letter to me from her attorney. That means the original Anastasia was psychic and phenomenally so. Robert has married a very pregnant woman. Her husband died of a heart attack at 27. She is 26 and Robert is 40, he fell for her and her being six months pregnant and her husband died when she was three months pregnant. Her mother and father brought her on the cruise. Robert charmed all of them. They had no idea he was Christian Grey's son. They found out when they came to meet all of us using the GEH jet.
He wanted our family home and paid us our shares of what the market would bear. We decided to sell it to him. Mia is living in in her mom and dads house. She is the only one of the children left and it went to her. The penthouse is being used by Christina and Ella. Grace Ella is going to have triplets. Their birth might come about the time Robert and Anastasia have the baby.
Anastasia Rose Grey 2
I am shocked to see that I now have the same name as Robert's mother. Mom and dad are shocked at me being married to the heir of a billionaire. Well one of many heirs. I met all of the Grey, Kavanagh, Armstrong and Bailey families. It was huge. I was an only child. My parents decided to stay here with us. After all I am their only child and they want to be around their only grandchild. We had everything packed and moved here then listed our homes for sale. I have to say that the home was perfect. I had no idea we were surrounded by security even on the cruise. The home close to the house used to be the head of household and head of security. No one lives in it any more, so mom and dad moved into it.
The baby arrived and it was a boy, Robert wanted to name him Christian Elliott Grey and we did. I looked at our son and he looked just like his father. Copper colored hair and Grey eyes. His father died in prison. Joseph Right was born with a bad heart and was lucky to live to 27.
Grace Ella
My triplets were tiny and all looked like me but all boys. Theodore Alexander, Carrick David, Raymond Charles were born healthy gray eyes and copper hair.
Andrew
Mia was working in the garden when I left her this morning and I can't find her at all. I walk to the garden and she is laying in the gardenias. I run and check and she is gone. She died in her and her moms favorite flowers and the garden they spent many hours in.
We bury the last of the original Grey family. She is buried next to her family and next to where me and our children will be buried. I am left everything because Mia didn't want to write a will up. So she died intestate and everything goes to me. I can't stay here, so I offer the home to our children. George and Kate were the only ones interested in the Grey family  home. So I sell it to them and leave it. Mia's things were donated after the kids went through what they wanted.

It was the end of a generation and the beginning of a new one. The letters stopped after Mia's death.
Hope I did well on this story, had some dental issues. Sorry if it got kind of slow.
Thanks for reading it.

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