#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.”

us. Edrick and I quickly put on our shoes and took the elevator down, and when we came out I saw

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

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

was feeling nervous, and so was I. I couldn’t help but wonder if

with us, we’d like to perform an interview. We’d like your side of the story as to what happened leading

“I don’t want to make my fiancee dredge up what happened that night without any

is causing a lot of media attention,

widened. “I did not!” I said, feeling my anger begin

for the interview,” the officer said

mentally insane, illegitimate half-brother

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

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

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

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 those people. Right now, the last thing I needed was to have

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 of what happened

my head. “No,” I said. “It’s okay… I’ll go. It’s better to just get this over with now, and there’s no

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