After seven years of love, including three spent apart while Alexander King quietly forged a vast fortune, he returns to Detroit ready to ask Amelia to marry him. Disguised as an ordinary auditor called Leon, he plans a heartfelt surprise, only to witness her embracing another man and mocking the man she discarded. Derek orders Leon brutally attacked and left bleeding, forcing him to activate a hidden emergency signal. Yet when his rescuers reach the scene, he has vanished.