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 specifically

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

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,

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 coming into the building so soon after what happened at the warehouse, it was certain that there would be

as the one that gave us a ride home after

so was I. I

like to come down to the station with us, we’d like to perform an interview. We’d

he said. “I don’t want to make my fiancee dredge up what happened that night without any time to prepare. If you call

whole incident is causing a lot of

begin to

for the interview,”

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

officer 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

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 with what I did? What if

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

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 last thing I needed

quietly. “You don’t need to go if you don’t want to,” he said. “And if you want a lawyer because of what happened that night, I

over with now, and there’s no reason for

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