It was Valerie.

Part Ten: Valerie

I met Valerie Nkemdirim four times before the fourteenth of March and I could not have picked her out of a room.

She ran a small marketing consultancy that had done a rebrand for Christopher’s firm in 2022, and she had been at two of their client evenings and one Christmas thing, and I had spoken to her for about six minutes across four occasions.

She was thirty-four.