Brooke Linden's mother suffers from Alzheimer's. Brooke, struggling for a permanent job due to workplace suppression, is at her wit's end. She encounters a drugged Zane Hawthorne. After relations, she gets her job offer, despising herself. She avoids Zane, but their entanglement deepens. Learning Brooke is two months pregnant, Zane Hawthorne takes her home, beginning his wife-doting mode.
