The lawsuit moved faster than I expected. Dana filed the complaint in the county court, and within a week, the Ashford family had hired a new lawyer, a man named Richard Voss who had a reputation for being aggressive and expensive. They filed a countersuit, claiming that I had defamed Caroline and caused her emotional distress. It was a classic move, meant to intimidate me, but I refused to be intimidated.
The discovery process was brutal. I had to turn over my bank records, my emails, my text messages. I had to sit for a deposition, where Richard Voss questioned me for four hours about every detail of my relationship with Grayson. He tried to paint me as a jealous, unstable woman who had imagined the whole thing. He tried to suggest that I had misunderstood the situation. He tried to mak
