Charlotte initially chalked the stray hair to the aftermath of an eventful day, which likely resulted in the maids only managing to change her bedsheets instead of doing a thorough cleaning of her room.

But if I haven’t dumped anything I wore yesterday into the laundry basket in the wardrobe, how could my hair end up there? Are these even my hair? To whom could they belong to? If this is really my hair, how did it end up in here?

Charlotte had Lupine send the strands for analysis.

The results came back sooner than expected. The hair was indeed Charlotte’s, and the red stain was nail polish.

It was a perplexing finding, given that Charlotte, Lupine, and Morgan did not use nail polish.

concluded that someone sporting red nail polish had come into Charlotte’s

investigated the members of the

noticed that a few of Sherlyn’s personal maids wore nail polish, and three of them painted their nails

neat and showed no

maids put under surveillance in the hopes of uncovering new

disappointed that they could not make further progress in their

calling Zachary and her children every day to no

Zachary frequently as well as he expressed his wish of delivering an apology in person with

poor appetite over three days of radio silence from Zachary, while Robert and Sherlyn worried incessantly about potential paybacks

efforts to track him down remained

as he said, “Charlotte, Mr. Murphy told me that he’s meeting Zachary at the

was elated as she summoned Lupine. “Get the car ready; we’re

Lupine left to carry

arrangements. I’ll come with you. I’d like

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