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 when your son doesn’t recall

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

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

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 to tell Sebastian how much his son owed him as a

son give in without question. But it was clear that those words had lost their magic ever since Sebastian regretted letting go o

do you need me to repeat

“No.”

the question; or ‘No’, my

spat in

his hard stare when she asked, “And

present evidence, it doesn’t mean

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

the defense lawyer did could mask the glaring fact that the minister had no evidentiary support to

against him. Without reasonable doubt, Alfred Cummings would be found guilty and sentenced in accordance with

And what did the minister have to say about this

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

for 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

nervously through her light brown pixie hair, which she had already checked three times in the mirror

the 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 have been something wrong with her. As the Finance Minister, as someone who has direct access

who were charged. For some reason, the prosecution decided to exercise some ‘due diligence’ and dug

project cost the government six million dollars, of which twenty percent went into her own pockets. The

Marie Martin than it did 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 the front row on the other side of the aisle from the royals, told her that she looked ‘presentable and responsible’ in

mother that his brother, Herbert, had

little

was that wolf, who had been speaking to Lycans like she owned all of them, throwing insults and shaming anyone

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had 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 late King Lucas. He never allowed Queen Vera to speak as

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

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