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 your son doesn’t recall

recall how I transferred the funds to Tanner, that’s all I’ll say about

no proof of the transfer you purportedly made 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.

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

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

do you need me to repeat the question?” The

“No.”

question; or ‘No’, my understanding of your

Cummings spat in

prosecutor matched his hard stare when she asked, “And how is

mean there wasn’t

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

Alfred, it was clear that nothing the defense lawyer did could mask the glaring

Cummings would

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

warned Cummings that the later he pleaded guilty,

long, dark tunnel than to seal his own faith prematurely by being the

her fingers ran nervously through her light brown pixie hair, which she

now, there would have been

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 deals’. They found that she

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

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

brother, Herbert, had

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

to herself. And then there was that wolf, who had

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King is rendered blind and useless. This never happened with the late King Lucas. He never allowed

nonsense 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 the inferior

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