Chapter 209: Testify

Moana

“The police are downstairs,” the old housekeeper said, sounding both confused and concerned, and a little sheepish as she surely knew what she had just walked into. “They want to speak to you.”

Edrick and I suddenly looked at each other in shock.

“I’ll go,” he said, grabbing his shirt off of the floor and putting it on. “You can stay here, Moana.”

But Selina shook her head and pointed at me. “They want to talk to her. They asked specifically for Moana.”

As Selina spoke, my eyes suddenly widened. Surely the police wanted to talk to me about Ethan and Kelly, but why now? They really came in the pouring rain? Couldn’t they have called first? Edrick, who seemed to be thinking the same thing, narrowed his eyes. “Well, it’s not a good time,” he said. “Why didn’t they call first instead of just showing up?”

know. But they asked

his mouth to speak, but I shook my head and grabbed my sweater off of the chair. “It’s fine,” I said.

the lobby downstairs, as our new bodyguards were given strict orders not to let anyone in who wasn’t one of us. Edrick and I quickly put on our shoes and took the elevator down, and when we came out I saw two officers sitting on the bench

a bunch of hyenas. If pictures went around of two

the one that gave us a ride home after the incident at the warehouse. “I apologize for the intrusion, but we wanted

I could tell that he was feeling nervous, and so was I. I couldn’t help but wonder if something

for Miss Fowler,” the officer said, looking at me. “If you’d like to come down to the station with us, we’d like to perform an interview. We’d like your side of the story as to what happened leading up to the events at the warehouse a couple of

shoulders. “This is very sudden,” he said. “I don’t want to make my fiancee dredge up what happened that

it needs to be done today,” the officer interrupted grimly. “This whole incident is causing a lot of media attention, and Ethan said

widened. “I did not!” I said, feeling my anger begin to bubble up inside of me. “He’s a liar. That’s not

need to be saved for

fiancee over something that my mentally insane, illegitimate half-brother said? You know he’s

sighed and put his hands up in a gesture of surrender. “It’s not an interrogation, Mr. Morgan,” he said. “It’s just an interview. We know that Ethan is not telling the truth, but we’d like to get Miss Fowler’s statement first.” He turned then to look back at me. “Now, if you’d like a ride down to the station, we could get this all over with today.

by it all. Of course Ethan was lying, but… If the truth came out that I was trapped that night because I was trying to leave with Ella, would he and Kelly and Olivia get away

manipulated into going, and even if it wasn’t clear

night. I had seen clips of interrogations online where distressed victims were made to cry or have mental breakdowns over bringing up everything that happened, and I didn’t want to be one of those people. Right now, the last thing I needed was to

to go if you don’t want to,” he said. “And if you want a lawyer because of what happened

I said. “It’s okay… I’ll go. It’s better to just get this over with

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