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.”

acquired the line of properties for you

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

to Helena Tanner; no proof 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 court. Is

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 it for a good twenty-five minutes, Alfred made sure he used the final five minutes

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 even recall meeting

do you need me to repeat the question?” The prosecutor

“No.”

need me to repeat the question; or ‘No’,

spat in

stare when she

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

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

the defense lawyer did could mask the glaring fact that

doubt, Alfred Cummings would be found guilty and sentenced in accordance with the law. Mr

a lighter sentence. And what did the minister have to say about this

guilty, the less

faith prematurely by being the first

stand. As soon as she sat, her fingers ran nervously through her light brown pixie hair, which she had already checked three times

it be overshadowed by the dark circles underneath her eyes. If she wasn’t horrified right now, there

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

deal was with 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

for the other 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

his brother, Herbert, had been charged

little joke on

if the Duke 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,

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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 Vera to speak

them in government decisions !. It is disgraceful to see how low King Alexandar had

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