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?”

“I don’t know. But they asked

his mouth to speak, but I shook my head and grabbed my sweater off of the chair. “It’s fine,” I said. “I’ll

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, and when we came out I saw two officers sitting on the bench in the lobby waiting for us. They both stood when we

of hyenas. If pictures went around of two police officers coming into the building so soon

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 we wanted to come and

so was I. I couldn’t help but wonder if something had

Fowler,” the 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 the events at the warehouse a

arm around my shoulders. “This is very sudden,” he said. “I don’t want to make my fiancee dredge up what happened that night

today,” the officer interrupted grimly. “This whole incident is causing a lot of media attention, and Ethan said — on the record — that…

my anger begin to bubble up inside of me. “He’s a liar. That’s not

to be saved for the interview,”

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, sounding agitated

like to get Miss Fowler’s statement first.” He turned then to look back at me. “Now, if you’d like a

was still 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 and Olivia get away with what I did? What if I got in trouble instead for attempted kidnapping since I took Ella without

myself. That was a 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

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

pulled me aside and spoke quietly. “You don’t need to go if you don’t want to,” he said. “And if you want a lawyer because

go. It’s better to just get this over with

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