After I Accidentally Swallowed My Husband’s First Love's Pearl

Linda wakes on an operating table after her husband Stephen Chandler has her cut open to retrieve a pearl she accidentally swallowed — a pearl he meant to give June Norris. His brother Jack stitches her wound without care, and Stephen's only concern is that June cried herself to sleep. At the Chandler Family villa, June lies in Linda and Stephen's bed, playing with the pearl, while Stephen orders Linda to apologize. Linda knows she was only ever a substitute for June, whose face she resembles, and that Stephen married her to cover her grandmother's medical bills. Now that June has returned, Linda resolves to step aside, but Stephen refuses to let her go until June is settled. When a fever grips her that night, she calls Stephen for help, only to hear June's voice on the line. Alone and in pain, Linda turns to Alfred, the butler, as she begins to disappear from the life that was never hers.