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.”

properties for you when your

say, “I don’t recall how I transferred the funds to Tanner, that’s all I’ll say

purportedly made to Helena Tanner; no proof that your son bought the properties which are in your name; and no proof that you

eamed well as a CEO. Although they argued about it for a good twenty-five minutes, Alfred made sure he used the final five

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

do you need me to repeat the question?” The

“No.”

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

spat in

she asked, “And how is my

present evidence, it doesn’t mean

as

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

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 his client

sentence. And what did the minister have to say about this advice? “Let’s wait

warned Cummings that the later he pleaded guilty, the less likely the court would grant him

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 Kingdom’s history, to plead guilty

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

her eyes. If she wasn’t horrified right now, there would have been something

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 who wanted

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, with the court’s permission, added

sons, Henry Martin, now seated at the front row on the other side of

brother, Herbert, had been charged and arrested together with

his, all because they played a little joke on the Duke and Sir Weaver,

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

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

in government decisions !. It is

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