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

recall how I transferred the funds to Tanner, that’s all I’ll say about the

that your son bought the properties which are in your name; and no proof that you didn’t tell

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

have a 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 that those words had lost their magic ever since Sebastian regretted letting go o f the wolf he didn’t

to repeat

“No.”

or ‘No’, my understanding of

Cummings spat in

his hard stare when she asked, “And

doesn’t mean there wasn’t any. They’re just no longer

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

the defense lawyer did could mask the glaring fact that the

doubt, Alfred Cummings would be found guilty and sentenced in accordance with the law. Mr Clark explained all of this to his client

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

he pleaded guilty, the less likely the court would grant him

long, dark tunnel than to seal his own faith prematurely by being the first minister among the

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

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

charges were a little different from 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

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

got before taking the stand was the fact that one of her two sons, Henry Martin, now seated at the front

brother, Herbert, had been charged and arrested together

a little joke

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 anyone and everyone she wanted to.

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never happened with the late King Lucas. He never allowed Queen Vera to speak as she pleased, and look how

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

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