Chapter 20: Graham’s Story
Graham’s attorney released a statement denying that he had instructed anyone to damage my home.
It described him as a concerned family acquaintance caught in a bitter dispute.
The statement claimed the parking-lot footage had been misinterpreted and that he had not intended to approach Noah.
I could not know his private intention.
I knew what the video showed and what the court restrictions required.
The investigators were responsible for determining the rest.
Graham then tried to contact me through a former client from my furniture business.
The client said a man had offered to pay for a private conversation about the parking-lot recording.
I told her not to share my number and forwarded the information to Ortiz.
The effort frightened me because it showed how many routes an intrusive person could use.
I changed the way clients booked appointments and stopped publishing my personal mobile number.
Then Graham’s former assistant, Kira Moss, contacted Rebecca’s lawyer.
She said Graham had asked her to track Valerie’s finances and Noah’s schedule.
She had refused after realizing some requests involved a child covered by a protection order.
She also had preserved professional correspondence describing pressure on Valerie.
Her records gave investigators another independent line of inquiry.
I did not see the correspondence.
Rebecca told me only that the attorney believed it could clarify why Graham had been near the store.
For the first time since the flood, the case no longer depended entirely on whether anyone believed Valerie or me.
Other people had documents created before the conflict reached my house.
That mattered more than a dramatic confession.
