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 your son doesn’t recall that detail

recall how I

bought the properties which are in your name; and no proof that you didn’t tell your son to present a false oral testimony in court. Is my understanding

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 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

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

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

“No.”

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

spat in

hard stare when she asked, “And how is my

because I can’t present evidence, it doesn’t mean

as she

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

Alfred Cummings would be found guilty and sentenced

the minister have

guilty, the less likely the court would grant

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

resumed trial, calling Marie Martin to 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 was getting ready. Her back straightened to project

eyes couldn’t be covered by those long 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

her three other colleagues who were charged. For some reason, the prosecution decided to exercise some ‘due diligence’ and dug deeper into her affairs and… business deals’. They found that she received bribes from construction companies

This project cost the government six million dollars, of which twenty percent went into her

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,

brother, Herbert, had been charged and arrested together

played a little joke on

themselves didn’t 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 them, throwing insults and shaming

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never happened with the late King Lucas.

them in government decisions !. It is disgraceful to see how low King Alexandar had chosen to stoop for

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