Ivy signs a contract to be Sebastian Winslow's secret lover because her mother needs surgery and her gambling father's creditors are at the door. He wants someone obedient. She wants the money and nothing else.
Lydia, who has been passing as the Winslow heiress, spots Ivy's birthmark in an old photograph and decides to bury her first. The accusation is faking a pregnancy for extortion, and Sebastian, who cannot stand being lied to, humiliates her in public and puts her on the street. Ivy cuts him off and takes a cleaning job to pay off the debt. That job puts her in the same building as Eleanor Winslow, and the birthmark on her wrist starts doing what Lydia was afraid of.
