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

enraged but he managed to say, “I don’t recall how I transferred the

that your son 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

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

which normally made the son give in without question. But it was clear

to repeat the

“No.”

repeat the question; or ‘No’,

Cummings spat in

stare when she asked, “And how is my

can’t present evidence, it doesn’t mean there

argument as she said,

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

such evidence, there was no 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

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

warned Cummings that the later he pleaded guilty,

faith prematurely by being the first minister among the

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

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 so many bribery offers over the

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

of low-cost apartments for the middle class Lycan community. This project cost the government six million dollars, of

three ministers. The only 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

told his mother that his brother, Herbert, had been charged

a little joke on the Duke and Sir Weaver, Marie was

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 anyone and everyone she wanted

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and even the King is rendered blind and useless. This never happened with the

of having to provide aid for rogue attacks’ or ‘include them in government decisions !. It is disgraceful to see how low King Alexandar had chosen to stoop for a creature of

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