"'Some day' has arrived," was all he told her.
Her only response was her lips slowly curling up into a smile.
Meantime, in Breagadoir's household, the newest additions were having some time together.
"You may be Breagadoir's heir," Dahlia told her only son, "but you're still my son too. Maybe some day we'll both be able to go to his mystical land as his queen and his prince. We just need to stick together, okay baby?"
"Bree-door," was the potential heir's only reply.
In the not-so-distant past...Some time before Annalove's emotional explosion, Breagadoir had a chat with a young vampire.
"Are you here to mock me like your little protégé?" she asked.
"No, not at all," answered the sly prince. "In fact, I think you and I might very well see eye to eye on quite a few things."
"Such as?" asked a non-convinced vampire.
"You were the first person I asked about wealthy families in town," he explained,
"and you were smart enough to send me after other families' fortunes instead. In fact, I think you'd like to get your hands on the
entire VanGould family fortune."
"I'm listening," she said.
"I'll plant the idea with Nightmare," he began, "that making you an orphan by getting rid of your family would be the cruelest thing to do to you."
"And would, instead, give me the entire fortune," she said, completing the thought. "But why would you do this?"
"Oh, I'm not selfless," he laughed, "there's something in it for me too, some day..."
Returning to the present"Are we going to work through things?" asked Annalove, as Breagadoir walked through the door.
"No," he responded with a smile, "in fact, you're simply going to pack up your things and leave."
"What?!?" she responded.
"Remember signing some joint account paperwork without your name on it?" he asked with a smile.
Her face fell as she said, "You mean.."
"Yep," said the prince, cutting her off, "I own
all of this and you and your children are penniless."
"Children?" asked Nightmare.
"Sorry, kid," replied the prince, "it was her one condition."
"Whose one condition?" asked an irate Nightmare.
"The new mistress of this manor," replied a young vampire.