#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.”

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

hyenas. If pictures went around

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

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

we have some questions for Miss Fowler,” the officer said, looking at me. “If you’d like to come down to the station with us, we’d like to perform an interview. We’d like your side

he said. “I don’t want to make my fiancee dredge up what happened that night without any time to prepare. If you call back another time, maybe we can set up

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

said, feeling my anger begin to bubble up inside of

to be saved for the interview,” the officer

fiancee over something that my mentally insane, illegitimate

telling the truth, but we’d like to get Miss Fowler’s statement first.” He turned then to look back at me. “Now, if

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

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

really scared me the 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 up everything that happened,

said. “And

I said. “It’s okay… I’ll go. It’s better to just get this over with now, and there’s

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