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.”

that your son acquired the line of properties for you when your

he managed to say, “I don’t recall how I transferred the funds to Tanner, that’s all I’ll say about the

the properties which are in your name; and no

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 father, hence it was time to

was: do me proud, my boy, which normally made the son give in without question. But it was clear that those words had lost their magic ever since Sebastian regretted letting go

me to repeat the question?” The

“No.”

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

Cummings spat

stare when she asked, “And how is

mean there wasn’t any.

smirked at his baseless argument as she

defense lawyer did could mask the glaring fact that the minister had no evidentiary support to prove his

Alfred Cummings

in hopes of a lighter sentence. And what did the minister

the later he pleaded guilty, the less likely the court would grant him a

Cummings would rather pray for that illusionary 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, to plead

fingers ran nervously through her light brown pixie hair, which she had already checked three times in the mirror when she was getting ready. Her back straightened to project as much

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 has direct access to government funds,

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

six million dollars, of which twenty

clearly looked worse for Marie Martin than it did for the other three 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 pink blouse and black coat

that his brother, Herbert, had been charged and

of his, all because they played a little joke on the

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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This never happened with the late King Lucas. He never allowed Queen Vera to speak as she pleased, and look how wonderful and prosperous their

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

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