Gwenna watches as her father is arrested for embezzlement! He had taken her in, even though she was the daughter of his mistress, so she wanted to help him...
So with no other thought in mind, she goes to see the man in charge of the company pressing the charges. The man she confronts is the same man she happened to have met the other day—and she would never admit it, but he had set her heart aflame. This man, Angelo, offers to drop the charges on one startling condition: "You will be my mistress." She had grown up watching her mother suffer as a mistress. Will she be doomed to the same fate?