Thanks for all your lovely comments everyone! I'm back with another update. I hope you'll enjoy this chapter!
--- CHAPTER 8 --- The Great ComebackNina Caliente’s worst fear had come true. After several months of enjoying her freedom she didn’t have the house to herself any more. Little Brutus Caliente, Nina and Don’s son, had become the latest addition to the Caliente family. 
Becoming a mother didn’t change Nina’s temper. Of course she was a loving mother to her son Brutus, feeding him and cuddling him. But inside her heart was burning for revenge. That no good womanizer Don Lothario had escaped the humiliation she so carefully had planned for him. He dumped his kids on good old Brandi Broke in exchange for simoleans and now he was after her sister Dina and her big fat inheritance. She couldn’t let Don get away with that.
“It’s alright darling, mommy will make daddy pay for what he has done”

With the alien abduction miserably failing in its desired effect, drastic measures were necessary. Nina knew she had other connections in Strangetown that could be useful in this kind situation. She made a couple of phone calls and after a few days, the delivery service brought Nina a very special package. With compliments from miss Olive Specter.
Nina knew she was playing with fire, Olive had warned her about the possible side effects, but Nina didn’t feel like she had any choice. Don had to be stopped! Slowly but determined, Nina reached for the phone part that came with the communication device. “Hello?”
“Oooh, gads, the smell. The smell, it’s just terrible!” The dirty deed had been done. Mortimer was back and he was alive. Well kind of alive anyway. Being a single mother, Nina didn’t have the kind of funds that were necessary for a descent bribe. Mortimer came back as a stumbling heap of decaying flesh, but that was all that Nina needed for her plan.
Nina didn’t plan on having Mortimer in her home for very long. “Now listen very carefully Morty, I will say this only once. Go home! Your beloved wife Dina needs you. Stop her from marrying that creep Don Lothario. You know the guy that broke your daughter Cassie’s heart.”

Zombie Mortimer gave a deep and heavy groan. ROAAAAHAAWAA, or something similar. The words echoed through his rotting brain. DINA,CASSIE, DON! Although Mortimer wasn’t the sharpest tool in the shed in his current condition, Nina’s message was loud and clear. Determined to save his beloved wife Dina, Mortimer stepped into Nina’s car so she could drop him of at Dina’s home.
B
ack in the Goth residence, Don and Dina were making preparations for a wonderful family Christmas celebration. Dina had splurged on beautiful Christmas decorations and expensive gifts for the twins and Don. She wanted tonight to be magical, because she was sure this was going to be the night that Don would propose.
Don behaved like a perfect gentleman. He knew what a big catch rich widow Nina was, so he thought very carefully of every word he said. He didn’t want to mess things up like last time with Cassie. “My precious Dina, life couldn’t be more perfect. You, these adorable kids and a wonderful home, what more could a man want?”
“Oh Don, having you here makes me realize how lonely I’ve been.” “TRRRRRRRING, TRRRRRRRING!” Don and Dina’s exchange of flirtations was rudely interupted by the sharp ring of the doorbell. In the presumption it was the delivery boy with the Christmas Turkey diner she pre-ordered from the Golden Walnut, Dina handed little Rex over to Don. “Let me get that sweety, please look after my little darlings. I’ll be right back”
“Oh my plumbbob!” Dina’s shock was enormous when she saw it wasn’t the delivery guy at the door but her own ghost of Christmas past. “Mortimer! What? How? Why?” Dina was as much appalled by the sight of zombie Morty as she was puzzled by his unexpected return.
Mortimer was shocked by his widow’s reaction. He had come here to save her from that afwul Don Lothario and now she didn’t even seem pleased to see him. In a desperate attempt for her affection, Mortimer fell to his knees and started crying. “Dina, need you! Don’t leave me!” Afraid that the noise would alert Don or someone else for that matter, she quickly comforted the sobbing zombie and send him to one of the bedrooms to wait for her. All the while Dina’s mind was working overtime. “I can’t keep Don and Mortimer under the same roof. It would be war if either one found the other. And I can’t send Mortimer away. If anyone finds him I can kiss my inherited simoleans goodbye. Frammit! It’s such a shame but Don has to go.”
Dina tried to let Don down easy. But she could clearly see she broke his heart. "I'm so sorry Don. Really, it wasn't you, it's me. I'm just not ready to commit myself to a man again. I'm still grieving over Mortimer and I don't know when or if I'll be able to open my heart once again."

Don had never been so angry in his life before. This was an outrage. No woman ever gave Don Lothario the cold shower, well not until he got caught cheating on them anyway. He just couldn’t understand it. He had been so careful, he made all the right moves with Dina. He was going to propose to her tonight, right after desert. Don had even bought a stunning diamond ring for the occasion. “Ungrateful woman!”
Can Dina keep zombie Mortimer a secret? Is Don's broken heart enough revenge for Nina or does she want more? Will Brandi accept Don's apologies and let him back into his own home?Find out in the next chapters of Pleasantview Soapbox!