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?”

old housekeeper shrugged. “I don’t know. But they

and opened his mouth to speak, but I shook my head and grabbed my sweater off of

us. Edrick and I quickly put on our shoes and took the elevator

it seemed as though the paparazzi weren’t lingering around outside like a bunch of hyenas. If pictures went around of two police officers coming into the building so soon after what happened at the warehouse, it was

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

asked. I could tell that he was feeling nervous, and so was I. I couldn’t help but wonder if something had happened to Ethan or Kelly in jail,

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

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

my anger begin to bubble up inside of me. “He’s a

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

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

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. Eventually, you may need to testify in

to leave with Ella, would he and Kelly and Olivia get away with what I did? What if I got in trouble instead for attempted kidnapping since I took

was clearly manipulated into going, and even if it wasn’t clear enough, it didn’t really matter. Either way,

on what 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

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

It’s better to just get this over with now,

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