What happened before:
Dina had Mortimer’s baby: a boy named Gabriele. They got married afterwards. When Mortimer died, she inherited the fortune and got remarried with SSU frat boy Ashley Pitts, with whom she had 2 daughters: Veerle and Giorgiana. Ashley died from a falling satellite right before the girls went off to college.
Gabriele has moved back in with his fiancé and later wife Sharla Ottomas. They have a daughter Lorena. Dina is engaged for the 4th time in her life, but her marriage will make the family ties even more complicated…

Family members:
Dina Goth
Gabriele Caliente, son of Dina & Mortimer
Sharla Caliente (previously Ottomas), Gabriele’s wife
Lorena Caliente, daughter of Sharla & Gabriele



Dina is standing in her bedroom and realizes she is a happy woman. Life is good. Her career has been going well lately, she has a beautiful granddaughter and she is getting married again.


She has worked in the garden until late in the evening to make everything ready for her big day. She feels good about it, about everything actually, even though she was scared to give in to her new love and she tried to push it away.


Yes, dating your daughter-in-law’s older brother is not the easiest choice to make, and certainly not to communicate to your family. But she and David have so much fun together, and he seems like the first man who does not consider her a trophy wife.


And so, after one more night of sleep, the big day has finally arrived! So yes, she is going to get married. She was a bit reluctant to tell her son Gabriele about it, and the rest of her friends and family. But actually everybody seems happy for her and they have all come to celebrate with her. Nina and Sharla are the bridesmaids. Especially the fact that Nina said yes, meant a lot to Dina. They have finally closed their chapter of drama and jealousy.



So now David has moved in immediately. It is a bit weird for him too to become his sister’s “stepfather-in-law”. And he was afraid of what the neighbors would think too, but his love for Dina was too strong. Very much to Dina’s relief, he at least gets along very well with Brandi, one of her oldest friends.


And her son Gabriele likes him too. Of course they have known each other for a while, they are brothers-in-law.


She gets along quite well with Sharla, too. In the beginning she was quite skeptical of this relationship. Didn’t she come from a rather poor family with 6 children? Wasn’t she chasing after Gabriele’s fortune? Gabriele had to tell her that Sharla was not like her. That hit her, that even her son called her a gold digger. But maybe he was right. Because look at it: that Ottomas family turned out to have some other likeable members, too ????


Anyway, it seems that Sharla has to share some news, too.


Is there a little brother or sister on the way for this cute little girl Lorena?


Finally it seems like Dina is free from drama. Her daughters are off to university. They can continue their drama there. Veerle is into Romance just like her dad Ashley used to be. Even at her mom’s wedding she will catch a guy.


Giorgiana is even already engaged, to Colin Pleasant. Dina likes him a lot, she had a nice talk with him a while ago when he came over to see Sharla, with whom he was friends in college.


Gabriele is doing well as a shop owner, she hopes he will hire a manager and open a 2nd one too. He is definitely doing better than when she tried to start a business with Ashley.


Dina wonders whether she has changed or not. It has been a while since she broke up Don and Cassandra in less than one minute after their wedding ceremony. She was so young at the time.


Or her marriage to Ashley, with whom she had an affair while he was still a frat boy and Mortimer was still very much alive. In her defense, Mortimer having an affair with her sister Nina was the most humiliating thing she’s ever had to endure from a man. And then hasn’t mentioned yet his cheating on her with Angela, who was only a sorority girl back then. Wasn’t that a good excuse for her to see a frat boy? She was just a pretty girl to Mortimer after all, to divert him from getting older.


Or when she made things weird between her former stepson Alexander and her, that one night she was at his place. Ashley had cheated on her again and Alexander thought he had lost Lucy forever. Things have never been the same again since. She just nods at him politely when he comes to visit his half-brother Gabriele, but it is has become too awkward to actually talk to him.


Is she really not the same person anymore? She is not sure. After all, she had another romance with a younger man between the death of Ashley and her engagement with David. Who would have thought she would ever woohoo Don Lothario’s son? She just wants to make sure her daughters never find out, since they both liked (or still like) him too.


Anyway, some time has past since all this has happened. She has done some stupid things in her life, but that's in the past. Will she finally have met the love of her life? It seems so, at least David adores her. She is pretty sure he is not into his money (he will not get any), and, as far as she still believes in these things, he will be faithful to her.
Time will tell if the family ties will be held together…