#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.”

wasn’t one of us. Edrick and I quickly put on our shoes and

past them to look outside. Thankfully, 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

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

I could tell that he was feeling nervous, and so was I. I couldn’t help but wonder if something had happened to Ethan

interview. We’d like your side of the story as to what happened leading up to the events at the warehouse a couple of weeks ago, and

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

lot of media attention, and Ethan said — on the record — that… Miss Fowler went to

feeling my anger begin to bubble up inside of

will need to be saved for the interview,” the officer

something that my mentally insane, illegitimate half-brother said? You know he’s

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

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

even if it wasn’t clear enough, it didn’t really matter. Either way, Ethan still tried to

most was the 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

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

It’s better to just get this over

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