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.”

you recalled that your son acquired the line of properties for you when your son doesn’t recall that

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

no proof of the transfer you purportedly made to Helena Tanner; no proof that your son bought the properties which

had purchased the properties since he eamed well as a CEO. Although they argued about it for a good twenty-five minutes,

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

Cummings, do you need me to repeat the question?” The prosecutor

“No.”

repeat the question; or ‘No’, my understanding of

spat

stare when she asked, “And how is my

mean there wasn’t any.

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

Cook invited Mr Clark to re-examine Alfred, it was clear that nothing the defense lawyer did could mask the glaring fact that the minister had

in the prosecution’s case against him. Without reasonable doubt, Alfred Cummings would be found guilty and sentenced in accordance with the law. Mr Clark

a lighter sentence. And what did the minister have to say about this advice? “Let’s wait and see what the others

that the later he pleaded guilty,

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

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 confidence as she could.

circles underneath her eyes. If she wasn’t horrified right now, there would have been

‘due diligence’ and dug deeper into

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

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’

Henry told his mother that his brother, Herbert, had been charged

his, all because they played a little joke on the Duke and Sir Weaver,

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

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King is rendered blind and useless. This never

decisions !. It is disgraceful to see how low King Alexandar

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