Flutegirl I am loving the blog! You should definitely make it public, you have put a lot of thought and effort into that and people will appreciate it.
MadamLee your story is believable of course! Post what happens next soon I would like to know what happens to Jane.
I have and update on the Goth family...Several! So it may be long. Please refer back to my last post on May 8 for part 1 of the Landgraab/Goth saga.
Part 2: Expansion
The Caliente/Landgrabb alliance, looked so promising and powerful but the arrangement dissolving. Katrina has hit on hard times. She has aged and Katrina, known for her Vanity, rushed into a marriage with a penniless gym instructor named Earl. Earl Sandana is an elder too so they will live happily forever, Katrina said to the disapproving looks from her daughters Dina and Nina. And Katrina was right, they were happily married for some time until Earls mistress, Zoe, 40 years Earls junior, turned up on the doorstep in her third trimester with Earls child. Katrina kicked Earl out and he left - with half of the Caliente Fortune!
Malcolm has sympathy for this mother in law, after all if it wasn't for her he wouldn't have his beautiful wife Dina, who has given him two sons, securing the Landgraab Dynasty. However, he cannot go down with a sinking ship - with a third of his companies assets now gone, he needs to find new allies...
Meanwhile...in the Nobel and Dastardly House of Goth. Bella is growing ever weary of her new role in the sidelines. With Alexander now head of the household, the matriarchal influence has passed to Nina, which Bella finds insufferable. SHE (Bella) is the head of the Goth household, it is her that is respected, feared and admired by all! And she does not like the influence her daughter in law yeilds over her son, especially now they have 2 children, Karlie and Xavier Goth.
One day the elderly yet dashing Jaques Villa-Real visits Goth Mansion. He has moved to the neighbouring town of Windenburg, and wishes to pay his respects to his old friend and associate, Mortimer Goth. Bella learns that Jaques is on the market again after the mysterious disappearance of his wife. Bella sets her sights to seducing the old moneybags in an attempt to restore her power over high society. With Jaques on her arm the Goth fortune could rival that of the Landgraabs, and this is a easy feat for Bella. She is young...too young....she seems not to have aged a day following her own mysterious disappearance from Sunset Valley all those years ago...Needless to say Jaques falls head over heels for Bella and they are married within the month - under the condition that she cuts all ties with Don Lothario, her lover and father to her youngest child Mae.
This is heartbreaking for Bella, she enjoys her and Dons open relationship, and he has been her only constant for so long... But she has more to gain than lose so she ends her affair...for now at least. Mae is free to visit her father but he may never enter the Villa-Real estate. (Even though Don is a love rat he is actually a very doting Father to all of his illegitimate children).
With her new husband sated, and her affairs in order Bella begins to enjoy her renewed power and influence over the affairs of Society and that of her son - Villa-Real now being the largest shareholder in the Goth Syndicate.
UNTIL....one stormy night. A hooded figure darkens the doorstep of the Villa-Real estate...
Knock, knock,knock
Bella sends her man to answer the door to no other than her older brother Michael Bachelor!
DUN DUN DUUNNN!
Micheal has been presumed dead for many years. He faked his own death back on Pleasantview to escape the life his parents had planned for him, after many many failed attempts at sending him to business school. Only his death enabled him to explore the world as an adventurer, and free himself of the burdens of inheritance and forced marriage.
However, Michaels age is advancing. He is not the wild eyed adventurer he once was, and he wants to secure a future for himself and his two sons, who he fathered illegitimately during his travels across Afroasia.
He wants his inheritance from those years ago, the only problem is that it is tied so tightly with Goth assests, dividing them would be an administrative nightmare, and Michael hated Mortimer Goth and his auspcisous ways, he always made Michael feel like a nothing - Michael will show him, and his nephew Alexander too....
What does Michaels return mean? Surely this is more than money - something he has never cared about?
Will Bella keep her perfectly manicured talons latched onto power?
How will the Langraabs react to the sudden expansion of their enemies powerbase? Can Malcolm Landgraab land the support of Darren Dreamer - The creative visionary? (yes I am resurrecting all the legends!)
End...for now.
I am looking forward to playing out this long lost brother thing. I have made and bought back Michael Bachelor as an old colonial sort back from his travels but I think more can be done with this other than inheritance. Let's see how he aligns himself with...if at all! Suggestions very welcome!
