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

Cummings looked 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

son bought the properties which are in your name; and

boiling in rage. When Sebastian visited 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

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 meeting before she became

do you need me to repeat the question?” The

“No.”

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

spat

hard stare when she asked,

can’t present evidence, it doesn’t mean there wasn’t any. They’re

his baseless argument as she said, “I

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

prosecution’s case against him. Without reasonable doubt, Alfred Cummings would be found guilty and sentenced in accordance with the law. Mr Clark explained all of this to

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

he pleaded guilty,

seal his own faith prematurely by being the first minister among the four, and the first

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

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, she had

her three other colleagues who were charged. For some reason, the prosecution decided to exercise some ‘due

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, with the court’s permission, added this to

at the front row on the other side of the aisle from the royals,

Herbert, had been charged and arrested together with

they played a little joke on

then there was that wolf, who

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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 with the late King Lucas. He never allowed Queen

decisions !. It is disgraceful to see how low King

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