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.”

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

recall how I transferred the funds to Tanner, that’s all I’ll say about the

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

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 to return

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

need me to repeat the

“No.”

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

spat in

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

because I can’t present evidence, it doesn’t mean there wasn’t any.

argument as she said, “I

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

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

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

pleaded guilty, the less

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

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

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 has direct access to government funds,

other colleagues who were charged. For some reason, the prosecution decided to exercise some ‘due diligence’ and

for the middle class Lycan community. This project cost the government six million dollars, of which twenty percent went into her own pockets. 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

Herbert, had been charged

played a little joke on the Duke and Sir Weaver, Marie was

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

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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

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

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