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.

there anyone to confirm your

A: No.

Not even your

penthouse apartment on the twenty-sixth floor of my office

  1. Yes, that would be helpful. As for leaving the family home, why?

say it was

Q.Please elaborate, Cummings.

haven’t been able to tolerate my sister

she has a tendency

No! Sasha’s just crazy. She’s not

Crazy enough to make the suitable connections

and expertise. I mean, she can’t even sneak out of our family home in the middle of the night without waking my dad

  1. When you think of a possible person who may help her escape, who comes to mind?

(pause) No one I can

Not even an

A: What uncle?

  1. 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?

a sister who remains a spinster, living in Iceland. We haven’t been in touch

not the type to

Aunt Carol is a homosexual, and she eloped with her bonded mate after my grandparents objected to

  1. I see. Could it be one of Sasha Cummings’s friends, perhaps?

You know, they’d just spend their time squandering their parents’ money

familiar with a close associate of your sister’s, a

A: Y-Yes.

to explain your familiarity with

was my sister’s closest friend. They’re still very close,

And what about you? How close are

A: I’m not

Q: Are you sure?

Yes. She was just my sister’s

apart from the fact that she was your sister’s friend, she was nothing

A:…

Answer the

see how

my answer, I can’t see the relevance either. And avoiding the question would just prompt m

had sex. Once.

course of your intimate relationship

was no intimacy. It was just sex. My heart had always belonged to

During that short stint with Livia Aphael, did she mention anything about being able to do things that

A: Like what?

out of

go on and on about in the bars was how

Duke, Christian

The other

see. Anything

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