#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.”

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

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

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

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

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 of the story as to what happened leading up to the events at the

frowned and protectively put his arm around my shoulders. “This is very sudden,” 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

to be done today,” the officer interrupted grimly. “This whole incident is causing a lot of media attention, and Ethan said — on the

did not!” I said, feeling my anger begin to bubble

to say will need to be saved for the interview,” the officer said gently with a polite

my mentally insane, illegitimate half-brother

interview. We know that Ethan is not telling the truth, but we’d like to get Miss

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

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

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 a flashback and wake up in

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

I’ll go. It’s better to just get this over with now, and

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