"My, my how good you look!" I thought you would never return! I trust your trip to The Tenth Kingdom was satisfactory?"

"Trip? Red, what are you talking about? I live there."

"That's right," Virginia said, slipping her arm in Wolf's. "Wolf and I only came back to see about your customs and to announce our marriage."

Riding Hood reeled back, stricken. "Oh no… Wolf can't marry you… Virginia wasn't it?"

Virginia and Wolf looked at each other and she knew he didn't have a clue as to what Riding Hood was talking about.

Virginia's cheeks pinked and she straightened up. "May I ask just why Wolf can't marry me?"

Riding Hood looked at her and smiled thinly. There was an unveiled contempt in her eyes. "Because Wolf is betrothed," she said simply.

An opportunistic childhood friend decides to exploit Wolf's newfound fame by ensuring that an old Second Kingdom arranged marriage custom is enforced, with the help of Red Riding Hood the Third.