She Was His First Love, I Was Just the Stand-In

The day before my due date, my husband Jesse Gilbert left a divorce agreement on the table and went back to his first love, Effie Simmons.

I hemorrhaged on the operating table and nearly died. The baby didn't make it.

It was my childhood friend Mark James who stayed by my side and helped me crawl out of the darkness.

One week before our wedding, I came home early to surprise him, only to overhear his phone call with a friend.

The voice on the other end said：

"Didn't you only get with Noreen Thomas because of Effie Simmons? You're really going through with the wedding?"