Chapter 132
Xandar picked up from where he left off:
Q: So, after the severance, would you say that there was never an occasion where you and your sister both went against the Crown?
A: I would never work with anyone to hurt the Queen, not even if it’s with my sister.
Q: That wasn’t the question, Cummings. Did you or did you not try to come between the King and Queen in the past two weeks?
A: No.
Q: Not even with what could seem to be an innocent act?
A: Officer, if you already have an occasion in mind, just lay it on the table so I can explain myself.
Q: It is rumored that you attempted to gift a book to the Queen early last week.
A: That was just a friendly gesture. I remember she loved to read. She didn’t accept it, by the way.
Q: And did that make you upset?
A: Upset enough to regret I didn’t do well by her? Yes. Upset enough to join forces with my sister to break the mate-bond she now shares with the King? No.
Q: Very well… there was also something else you and your sister both said when you visited her. You asked Sasha Cummings if she knew something you didn’t know about your father. What did you mean by that?
W som
me
A: Well, when Sasha asked me whether I would continue supporting my father even if he is later found guilty, there was this…glint in her eye, like she was challenging me. I just asked her that question on a hunch. She looked like she knew more than she was letting on.
Q: Do you think she knew more than she let on?
A: I don’t know. It’s hard to say. Sometimes, she would have threats up her sleeve but most of the time, she just wants to look like she has the upper hand to make you lose faith in yourself.
Q: Would you regard your relationship with your sister as being strained?
A: Yes.
Q: Would you say that your relationship is strained enough to perhaps….get rid of her?
A: What are you suggesting? That I break her out of prison, transport her somewhere and then kill her myself? Seriously? She was already removed from society when she was in police custody. I didn’t abduct her, neither did I help her escape.
Q: Where were you between 11:30 pm to 1a.m. the night before last?
A: At home. In my bed. Sleeping.
anyone to confirm
A: No.
even your
was arrested. I’m now living in the penthouse apartment on the twenty-sixth floor of my office building. I’ll gladly have my people send over the security footage of the office floors to verify what I just
- Yes, that would be helpful. As for leaving the family home, why?
just say it was getting suffocating
Q.Please elaborate, Cummings.
Well since last year, I haven’t been able
it because she has a tendency to gravitate towards the
just crazy. She’s not evil.
Crazy enough to make the suitable
were to be honest, escaping prison seems to exceed her own skill set and expertise. I mean, she can’t even sneak out of our family home in the middle of the
- When you think of a possible person who may help her escape, who comes to mind?
(pause) No one I
even
A: What uncle?
- On our record, a certain Mr Richard Morland visited your sister a few hours before your visit. Morland is your late mother’s family name, isn’t it?
Iceland.
Is your aunt not the type to
that. Aunt Carol is a homosexual, and she eloped with her bonded
- I see. Could it be one of Sasha Cummings’s friends, perhaps?
were more or less like her. You know, they’d just spend their time squandering their parents’ money on material items and
like you’ve met her friends. Are you familiar with a close associate of your sister’s,
A: Y-Yes.
your
sister’s closest friend. They’re still very
what about you? How close
A: I’m not
Q: Are you sure?
just
fact that she was your sister’s friend, she was nothing
A:…
the question,
see how
have my answer, I can’t see the relevance either. And avoiding the question would just prompt m e to put a
had sex.
So, during the course of your intimate relationship
intimacy. It was just sex. My heart had always
anything about
A: Like what?
out of prison,
she’d go on and on about in the
Duke, Christian
The other
I see.
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