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.”

of properties for you when your

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

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

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

give in without question. But it was

do you need me to repeat the question?” The

“No.”

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

Cummings spat in

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

it doesn’t mean there wasn’t any.

as she said, “I see. Thank you,

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

was no way he could cast reasonable doubt in the prosecution’s case against him. Without reasonable doubt, Alfred Cummings

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

he pleaded guilty, the less likely the court

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

the stand. As soon as she sat, her fingers ran nervously through her light brown pixie hair, which she had already checked three times in the mirror when she

she wasn’t horrified right now, there would have been something wrong with her. As the Finance Minister,

some ‘due diligence’ and dug deeper into

to the construction of low-cost apartments for the middle class Lycan community. This project cost the government six million dollars, of which twenty percent went into her own pockets. The prosecution,

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

brother, Herbert,

a little joke on the

then there was that wolf, who had been speaking to Lycans like she owned all of them,

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she had to do was gaze at the King with those fake innocent eyes, and even the King is rendered blind and useless. This never happened with the late King Lucas. He

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

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