He Walks in Rags, He Strikes Like Fire

Heiress Willa Stone is interrupted during a bath by news: the boy she once helped has been found, now reduced to a beggar. She bolts into the street, breathless. There, thugs kick over Travis Langley's bowl and coins scatter. Travis' eyes go cold and he clenches his fist, poised to strike back. The crowd holds its breath, expecting violence. Instead Willa pushes through and calls out to him, offering a proposal in front of stunned onlookers. Her public act shocks and confuses, an heiress placing herself at his side and halting an imminent fight. In that charged moment, pride, power and shame collide, forcing both to confront who they were and what they might become.