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?”

housekeeper shrugged. “I don’t know. But they asked specifically for

me again and opened his mouth to speak, but I shook my head and grabbed my

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 in

paparazzi weren’t lingering around outside like a bunch of hyenas.

officers said, who I recognized as the one that gave us a ride home after the incident at the warehouse. “I apologize

feeling nervous, and so was I. I couldn’t help but wonder if something had happened to Ethan or Kelly in

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

my fiancee dredge up what happened that night without any time to prepare. If you call back another

is causing a lot of media attention, and Ethan said — on the record — that… Miss Fowler went to the

my anger begin to bubble up

you want to say will need to be saved for the interview,” the officer said gently with

to interrogate my fiancee over something that my mentally insane, illegitimate half-brother said? You know he’s full of s**t, right?” Edrick asked,

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

to leave with Ella, would he and Kelly and Olivia get away

ridiculous thought. I was clearly manipulated into going, and even if it wasn’t clear enough, it didn’t really matter. Either way, Ethan still tried to kill a pregnant

had happened that 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

want to,” he said. “And if you want a lawyer because of what happened that night, I can get you the best lawyer

head. “No,” I said. “It’s okay… I’ll go. It’s better to just get this over with now, and there’s no

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