Emma Carter receives a Harvard acceptance, but her boyfriend Ryan Cole shreds the letter and convinces her she was rejected. She spends seven years funding his law degree, only to find him proposing to Vivian Ashford while she is seven months pregnant. Vivian humiliates Emma, and Ryan serves divorce papers, trapping her in a five million dollar debt. He plans to sell her to Mexico, but Noah, the son in her womb, warns her.
