#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.”

and I quickly put on

because of the pouring 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

one that gave us a ride home after the

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

We’d like

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

whole incident is causing a lot

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

need to be saved for the interview,” the officer said gently with

insane, illegitimate half-brother

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 me. “Now, if you’d like a ride down to

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

thought 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. Either way, Ethan still tried to

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

go if you don’t want to,” he said. “And if you want

better to just get this over with now,

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