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.”

line of properties for you when

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

you purportedly made to Helena Tanner; no proof that your son bought the properties which are in your name; and no proof that you didn’t tell your son to present a

a CEO. Although they argued about it for a good twenty-five

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 their magic ever since Sebastian regretted letting go o f the wolf he didn’t even recall

you need me to repeat the question?” The prosecutor

“No.”

repeat the question; or ‘No’,

Cummings spat

his hard stare when she asked, “And how

it doesn’t mean

at his baseless argument as she said, “I

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

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

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

guilty, the less likely the court would

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

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

eyelashes, nor could it be 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

exercise some ‘due diligence’ and dug

deal was with regards 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,

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 and pants she chose

Herbert, had been charged

of his, all because they played a little joke

thought to herself. And then there was that wolf, who

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and useless. This never happened with the late King

of the nonsense of 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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