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

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

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

rain, it seemed as though the paparazzi weren’t lingering around outside like a bunch of hyenas. If pictures went around of two police officers

home after the incident at the warehouse.

about?” Edrick 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, or something of the

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

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

officer interrupted grimly. “This whole incident is causing a lot of media attention, and Ethan

widened. “I did not!” I said, feeling my anger begin to bubble up inside of

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

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

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

shocked 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

I was clearly manipulated into going, and even if it wasn’t clear enough, it didn’t really

most was the thought of having to be interviewed 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 people. Right now, the

“You don’t need to go if you don’t want to,” he said. “And if

my head. “No,” I said. “It’s okay… I’ll go. It’s better to just get this over with now, and there’s no reason for me to get a lawyer. Unless… The situation

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