Good Enough - Completed
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Last published Sun, Jun 22, 2014
Unrequited Love and Second Chances.. How much can Love take to endure such deep pain.
Good Enough is a spin off from the short story entitled Fix Me- A Tale of Wanting to be Needed. The stage is set and kicks off 5 years later. Caleb Stifler and Kaitlin Mitchell have both graduated from college and pursued their respective careers. Prior to that, they carried on a “No Label” relationship for a year. Everything would have been perfect except that something had changed. Caleb left for Spain right after his graduation and took off to conquer the world while Kaitlin was left behind. Striving to pick up the pieces of her shattered heart she accepted a job at a global construction firm in Singapore. They have been successful professionally, finding their niche in the opposite poles of the world. But can success be the only measure of true happiness?
They were two people who found each other after having been broken by two different circumstances and remained steadfast in the special friendship that blossomed in the course of their healing. It held such promise of becoming something more. But distance had wedged them apart. Five years later, fate stepped in and their paths crossed again. The duo found themselves in a quagmire of sorts. A one-sided love, a secret borne, a nameless relationship with no promise of forever. But the oceans of space that separated them had become their adversary. Will providence bring them back together or can a new love be found and fill the deep and hollow void and make them feel good enough to feel love and be loved in return?
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