Family's Dinner
Author: Sweet_SourKiwi
last update Last Updated: 2024-11-19 14:22:17
“Oh, that president's case? What do I have to do with that? That is his problem, and also that of several ministers in his parliament. I was summoned to the state investigator's office yesterday, to be a witness. But, I don't have anything to do with that case at all, except for your mother used to work there." said the man.

August held his breath after talking like that. He looked at Dakota for a moment, then lowered his head. Slowly the man sat on the sofa beside the bed.

"Um, Roger said something was missing from under the stone table in the back garden of our old house. Is that something you've been saving all this time? Do those people take it and use it to prove the deviation that those people did before? Do you know what it was before?” August asked. He asked at once because he knew his son didn't like to answer with just one word. It will say it all at once, or not at all.

Dakota, who was seriously reading his book on his lap, lowered the thick book a little. Looking at his fat
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