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.”

you recalled that your son acquired the line of properties for you when

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;

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

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

me to repeat the question?” The

“No.”

the question; or ‘No’, my understanding of

Cummings spat

she asked, “And how is my understanding

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

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

it was clear that nothing the defense lawyer did could mask the glaring fact that the minister had no evidentiary support to prove

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 with the law. Mr Clark explained all of this to

Plead guilty in hopes of a lighter sentence. And what did the minister have to say about this advice? “Let’s wait

warned Cummings that the later he pleaded guilty, the

that 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

hair, which

fear behind her lilac 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

‘due diligence’ and dug deeper into her affairs and… business deals’. They found that she received bribes from

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

told his mother that his brother, Herbert, had been

they played a little joke on

and King 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

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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

of the nonsense of having to provide aid for rogue attacks’ or ‘include them in government decisions !. It is disgraceful

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