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

to speak, but I shook my head and grabbed my

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

a bunch of hyenas.

afternoon,” one of the officers said, who I recognized as the one that gave us a ride home after the incident at the warehouse. “I apologize for the intrusion, but

talk about?” Edrick asked. I could tell that he was feeling nervous, and so was I. I couldn’t help

“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 weeks ago, and we need to take a formal

and protectively put his arm around my shoulders. “This is very sudden,” he said. “I don’t want to make my fiancee dredge up what happened that night without any time to prepare. If you call back another

“This whole incident is causing a lot of media attention, and Ethan said — on

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

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

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

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,

came out that I was trapped that night because I was trying to leave with Ella, would he and Kelly and

a ridiculous thought. I was clearly manipulated into going, and even if it wasn’t clear enough, it didn’t

were made to cry or have mental breakdowns over bringing up everything that happened, and I didn’t want to be one of those

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

just get this over with now, and there’s no reason for

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