Sophie scrambles at home, repeatedly telling Spencer to stop and sending her dog Lucky to fetch milk, then panics when she remembers the new CEO is arriving and rushes to work. At the office she borrows makeup and coworkers warn that the new boss is strict and ruthless—"if we're late, we're toast." They hurry downstairs to welcome Mr. Xavier. When he appears Sophie realizes he is her ex. She freezes on sight, forced to mask her shock and keep her composure as he steps into the room.
Spencer Xavier introduces himself as the new CEO to three former secretaries—Kylie, Yara and Sophie—and orders the team not to make decisions alone. The staff gush over his looks until Sophie recognizes him as the man she dumped at university four years ago. Stunned, she snaps, "We're done. Don't come for me," then flees as coworkers demand explanations. Spencer shifts to business and tells Zane he needs a temporary assistant. The episode ends with Sophie absent and the assistant vacancy open, setting up an immediate personal and professional reckoning.
Sophie shows up at Spencer and Zoe's wedding where coworkers remind her she dumped Mr. Xavier four years ago and tease that he might still care. Panic spreads: colleagues urge her to quit, but Sophie refuses—she's worked up from intern pay to a high salary and bonus. At the ceremony she thinks Mr. Xavier has ignored her and breathes easier, until HR interrupts and names Sophie the CEO's temporary assistant. The episode ends with Sophie forced to start under her ex tomorrow, an unavoidable reunion that leaves everything unresolved.
Sophie is assigned to Mr. Xavier as an assistant after four years and immediately faces a probationary pay cut: her salary drops from $18,000 to $12,000. Confronted with his blunt "If you don't want the job... submit your resignation," she snaps, "I quit." Colleagues notice her red eyes and she leaves early to tend to Lucky, saying the move is hard. Back at work the boss drags staff to follow a small electric car, warns it's unsafe and only the premium has airbags. He then shouts, "Hit it," forcing an urgent, risky decision and leaving the outcome unresolved.
Mr. Xavier orders a staged light rear-end on a woman's car so she'll get a safer one. The hit is carried out; bystanders and Spencer scramble after the crash. Mr. Xavier immediately offers to cover repairs or pay up, then tells her to come to his office tomorrow to get the key for a new car. The woman refuses, shouts that money doesn't make him special, and suspects he knows she stole his dog. The episode ends with his replacement offer standing—she must decide whether to accept the car and go to his office.
Sophie’s office celebration flips when coworkers reveal Mr. Xavier gave the secretariat a 60% raise, boosting her salary. While she begins packing personal items—saying she’ll discard anything slowing her work and stay with Sunstar—Mr. Xavier summons her to his office. He returns her car key, admits he hit her car, and insists on compensating her with a new car or cash. Then he orders, "Put on this dress. Come with me to meet a client." Sophie protests, "Who’s the boss here, you or me?" He replies she must change now, leaving Sophie forced to decide whether to comply.
Sophie is pressured by Mr. Xavier, who offers $1 million to pay her father's medical bills if she will leave her boyfriend Spencer. Sophie refuses the cash and Spencer, calling the demand insulting. Back at the hospital, her father wakes, tells Sophie there's no cure, presents a birthday gift he asked the nurse to bring, and promises he'll watch over her after he's gone. Doctors rush in as he collapses. Sophie, grieving, tells him, 'If I had taken that $1 million, you could've survived.' The episode ends with her choice turning into a crushing, unresolved guilt.
Sophie starts her first day as a secretary, wearing a bracelet from a boyfriend and facing coworkers' gossip that assistants sleep with their bosses. Mr. Wilson taunts her with sexual insults and then slaps her; she protests while others watch. Mr. Xavier first tells her to wipe her tears, but when Wilson threatens to ruin a business deal over a secretary, Xavier cuts him off and declares, "She's not my secretary. She's my girlfriend." The declaration halts the confrontation and leaves the firm's disputed deal hanging.
At a Sunstar Group event Mr. Xavier abruptly cancels all deals with Wilson Group and orders security to remove the troublemaker. Spencer appears with his fiancée as staff scramble to apologize, then faces a family confrontation with Zoe, who accuses him of abandoning them and reminds him Sophie left him for one million. Spencer snaps, “Who do you think you are?” and refuses Zoe’s attempts to control him. Mr. Xavier insists he would have acted the same toward anyone and dismisses staff feelings. Spencer declines a ride, takes a cab, leaving contracts voided and family wounds unresolved.
When a man demands her address, Sophie panics—he could discover she stole his dog years ago, so she gives a fake one, "32 Bliss Street." Later, Mr. Xavier arrives and, seeing Sophie, notes it's been four years. Sophie reunites with Lucky and carries the overweight dog home. The situation turns when another person claims Lucky vanished long ago and accuses Sophie: "You thief! You took the dog but left me behind." The episode ends with Sophie publicly exposed and facing immediate confrontation, her deception left unresolved.