#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.”

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

lingering around outside like a bunch of hyenas. If

ride home after the incident at the warehouse. “I apologize for the intrusion, but we wanted to come and talk to

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 perform an interview. We’d like your side of the story as to what happened leading up to the

fiancee dredge up what happened that night without any time to prepare. If

needs to be done today,” the officer interrupted grimly. “This whole incident is causing a lot of

my anger begin to bubble up inside

will need to be saved for the interview,” the

illegitimate half-brother said? You know

we’d like to get Miss Fowler’s

to leave with Ella, would he and Kelly and Olivia get away with what I did? What if I got in trouble

even if it wasn’t clear enough, it didn’t really matter. Either way, Ethan still tried to kill a pregnant woman and

or have mental breakdowns over bringing up everything that

spoke 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 can get you the best lawyer

“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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