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 when

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

then concluded, “So, you have no proof of the transfer you purportedly made to Helena Tanner; no proof that your son bought the properties which are in your name; and

him the previous 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

chance to respond before the police 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. But it was clear

you need me to

“No.”

you don’t need me to repeat the question; or ‘No’, my understanding

Cummings spat

she

doesn’t mean there wasn’t any.

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

lawyer did could mask the glaring fact that the minister had no

such evidence, there was no way he could cast reasonable doubt in the prosecution’s case against him. Without reasonable doubt, Alfred Cummings would be found guilty and sentenced in accordance

did the minister have to say about this advice? “Let’s wait and see what the

that the later he pleaded guilty, the less likely

Cummings would rather pray for that illusionary light at the end of the long, dark tunnel than to seal his own faith

the court resumed trial, calling Marie Martin to the stand. As soon as she sat, her fingers ran nervously through her light brown pixie hair, which

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

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

of low-cost apartments for the middle class Lycan community. This project cost the government six million dollars, of which twenty percent

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

brother, Herbert, had been charged and arrested together

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

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

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

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

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