The 5-time Rejected Gamma & the Lycan King

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.”

your son acquired the line of properties for you

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

Tanner; no proof that your son bought the properties which are in your name; and no

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 they argued about it for a good twenty-five minutes, Alfred made sure he used the final five minutes to tell Sebastian how much his son owed him as a

entered to take his father back to his cell. His parting words to Sebastian was: do me proud, my boy, which normally made the son give in without question.

do you need me to repeat

“No.”

question; or ‘No’, my

spat

his hard stare when she

evidence, it doesn’t mean there wasn’t any. They’re just no longer

his baseless argument as she said,

the defense lawyer did could mask the glaring fact that the minister

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

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

that the later he pleaded guilty, the less

light at 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 history,

sat, her fingers ran nervously through her light brown pixie hair,

behind her lilac eyes couldn’t be covered by those long eyelashes, nor could it be overshadowed by the dark circles underneath her eyes. If she wasn’t horrified right now, there would have been something wrong with her. As the Finance Minister, as someone who

the prosecution decided to exercise some ‘due diligence’ and dug deeper into her affairs and… business deals’. They found that she

project cost the government six million dollars, of which twenty percent went into her own pockets. The prosecution, with the court’s

ministers. 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

Herbert, had been charged and arrested together

a little joke on

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 anyone and everyone she wanted to.

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had to do was gaze at the King with those fake innocent eyes, and even the King is rendered blind and useless. This never happened with

in government decisions !. It is disgraceful to