When Megan finally recovered enough to speak, detectives questioned her at the hospital. The pressure of the evidence left her with nowhere to hide.

She admitted everything in the end. Jealousy, she said, had driven her from the start. I was focused on becoming a doctor, while she struggled with her own path and felt left behind.

She believed that if she cut off my support, I would collapse and return home, forced back into the life she thought I should share with her.

Instead, I succeeded. Criminal charges followed soon after, along with a court order demanding she repay every cent she had taken-