A pregnant woman who was in labour trying to give birth, got the shock of her life when she learnt her partner has secretly married another woman.
A new mother was left shocked and devastated when her partner secretly married another woman, while she was giving birth to their baby.
Heather McGillion, 24, from Johnstone, Renfrewshire, in Scotland, had fallen for Adonis Rodriguez while they both working as hotel entertainers in the Dominican Republic.
She returned to the UK to give birth to their son Diego, but just as her son arrived a friend sent her a Facebook message containing a picture of Adonis getting married to another woman.
Heather, a trained dancer, said: 'When I opened the message it felt like I had been hit by a double-decker bus.
'Adonis had his arms around a woman and she was wearing a wedding dress. It didn't make sense and the more I thought about it, the more absurd it was.
'We had only been apart for a few weeks and there was no way Adonis could have met another woman and arranged a wedding in less than a month.'
Heather fell pregnant a year into the relationship with Adonis and the pair made plans for family life on the Caribbean island.
However after suffering complications during her pregnancy she decided to temporarily return home to Scotland to give birth but her partner was denied a visa.
But as she welcomed her son Diego, Heather was horrified after receiving a message on Facebook from a friend showing Adonis, 21, marrying a German tourist called Julia.
'For a second I didn't twig who it was. Then to my horror I realised it was Julia,' she recalled. 'She was a German tourist who came to stay at the hotel. About a year before I had noticed Adonis had become friends with her on Facebook and they had been messaging each other.
'It was nothing sexual but it made me feel uneasy. But Adonis assured me there was nothing going on and when I discovered I was pregnant I forgot all about it.'
When Heather called Adonis to confront him about he admitted everything.
She also noticed in the wedding photos that Julia, 31, had undergone a radical makeover.
She added: 'She was unrecognisable from the slightly plump, mousy woman I had seen on Adonis's Facebook page.
'In fact she now looked like me. She had lost weight and dyed her hair to look just like me, only with added wrinkles.
'When I phoned Adonis and asked "Why is Julia in a wedding dress?", there was a pause and then he said: "Heather, I'm so sorry". I hung up and burst into tears.'
Heather later discovered that after Adonis had moved to another hotel to find work, he had been meeting up with Julia. She had travelled to visit him around four times and they planned the wedding to take place while she was back in the UK.
Heather has returned to the Dominican Republic with Diego, who is now three months old, and is allowing Adonis to visit him.
She said: 'My mum has retired here so I have come out again with my son. Despite everything, I want Diego to have a father so Adonis is in regular contact with him but it's very hard.
'I feel so foolish for trusting Adonis but I keep telling myself there were no warning signs. I had been in a relationship with him before he ever met her.
'She came out every six months but it was the fourth holiday in which they married so it was very fast. She knew all about me and him and the baby but still married him, they had both planned it and I was the one not in the know.
'He treated me like royalty and he was so excited about our baby. I still can't believe what happened. Adonis had given me the impression he wanted to be together forever but while I was giving birth to his baby, he was marrying another woman.'
Adonis said: 'Yes I'm married, Julia is my wife. I was still with Heather when I married her. I want to say I'm so, so sorry to Heather about this because Heather has my little baby and I want to see Diego.'
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