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.”

son acquired the line of properties for

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

son bought the properties which are in your name; and no proof that you didn’t tell your son

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 father, hence it was time

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. But it was clear that those words had lost

me to repeat the question?” The

“No.”

the question; or ‘No’, my understanding of your lack of proof is

Cummings spat

when she asked, “And how is my

evidence, it doesn’t mean there wasn’t any. They’re

argument as she said, “I see. Thank you, Mr

it was clear that nothing the defense lawyer did could mask the glaring fact

Cummings would be found guilty and sentenced in accordance with the law. Mr Clark explained

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

guilty, the

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

Marie Martin to the stand. As soon as she sat, her fingers ran nervously through her light brown pixie hair, which she had already

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, she had so many bribery offers over

decided to exercise some ‘due diligence’ and dug deeper into her affairs and… business deals’.

class Lycan community. This project cost the government six million dollars, of which twenty percent went into her own pockets. The prosecution, with the court’s permission, added this

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

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

a little joke on the Duke and Sir Weaver,

Duke 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

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is rendered blind and useless. This never happened with the

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

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