Nanny and the Alpha Daddy

#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?”

The old housekeeper shrugged. “I don’t know. But they asked specifically for Moana.”

Edrick looked at me again and opened his mouth to speak, but I shook my head and grabbed my sweater off of the chair. “It’s fine,” I said. “I’ll go.”

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

around outside like a bunch of hyenas. If pictures went around of two police officers coming into the building

said, who I recognized as the one that gave us a ride home after the incident at the warehouse. “I apologize

I. I couldn’t help

We’d like your side of the story as to

sudden,” he said. “I don’t want to make my fiancee dredge up what happened that night without any time

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

said, feeling my anger begin to bubble up inside of me. “He’s

want to say will need to be saved for

something that my mentally insane, illegitimate half-brother

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

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

to 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.

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 was to have a

Edrick 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

get this over with now,