Chapter 159

The prosecutor got to the point with Alfred Cummings. “Mr Cummings, did your son visit you yesterday?”

“Yes.”

“Did you ask him to testify against the law?”

Alfred glanced briefly at Mr Clark before he uttered, “No.”

“Did you ask him to testify for your case?”

“Yes, but I didn’t tell my son to lie. I’m a father. Every father’s pride is to raise his children with the highest honor and integrity.”

“You insisted that your properties were acquired by your son as gifts. Do you have proof of these transactions?”

“I’m afraid that is something I do not have. I was decluttering my home a few years back, and I must have

cleaned out the documents recording the transactions.”

“And do you have evidence transferring government funds to Helena Tanner?”

“I’m afraid not. The transfer was done discreetly so there aren’t any documents to prove it.”

“Did you hand Helena Tanner the funds through bags of cash, Mr Cummings?”

“I—” he was about to answer when Mr Clark’s look seemed to be advising him to do otherwise, so he choset o say, “I don’t recall.”

“You don’t recall?” She took one step closer and asked again, “You don’t recall how you transferred money i n the billions to Helena Tanner?”

“Yes.”

the line of properties for you when your son doesn’t

but he managed to say, “I don’t recall how I transferred the

proof of the transfer you purportedly made to Helena Tanner; no proof that your son bought the properties which are in your name; and no proof that you didn’t tell your son to present a false oral testimony in court. Is my understanding correct, Mr

Sebastian visited him the previous day, he gave that son of his very clear and simple instructions to say that Sebastian himself had purchased the properties since he eamed well as a CEO. Although

the son give in without question. But it was clear that those words had lost their magic ever since Sebastian regretted letting go o f the wolf he didn’t even recall meeting before she became the King’s

you need me to repeat the question?” The prosecutor

“No.”

need me to repeat the question; or ‘No’,

spat

prosecutor matched his hard stare when she asked, “And how

doesn’t mean there wasn’t

his baseless argument as she

lawyer did could

prosecution’s case against him. Without reasonable doubt, Alfred Cummings would be

of a lighter sentence. And what did the minister have to say about this advice?

Cummings that the later he pleaded guilty, the less likely the

end of the long, dark tunnel than to seal his own faith prematurely by being the first minister among the four, and the first minister in the Kingdom’s

ran nervously through her light brown pixie hair, which she had already checked three times in the mirror when

now, there would have been something wrong with her. As the Finance Minister, as someone who has direct access to government

charges were a little different from her three other colleagues who were charged. For some reason, the prosecution decided to exercise some ‘due diligence’ and dug deeper into her affairs and… business deals’. They found that she received bribes from construction companies who

the government six million dollars, of which twenty percent went into her own pockets. The prosecution, with

The only comfort she got before taking the stand was the fact that one of her two sons, Henry Martin, now seated at the front row on the other side of the aisle from the royals, told her that she looked ‘presentable and responsible’ in the pastel pink blouse and black coat and pants she chose

that his brother, Herbert, had been charged and arrested together

played a little joke on the

and King themselves didn’t pull harmless pranks when they were younger’, she thought to herself. And then there was that wolf, who had been speaking to Lycans like she owned all of them, throwing insults and shaming

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is rendered blind and useless. This never happened with the late King Lucas. He never

for rogue attacks’ or ‘include them in government decisions !. It is disgraceful to see how low King Alexandar had chosen to

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