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.

red nail polish had come

covertly investigated the members of the

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

their nails seemed impeccably neat and showed

maids put under surveillance in the hopes

make further

calling Zachary and her children every day to no avail, which

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

days of radio silence from Zachary, while Robert and Sherlyn worried incessantly

track him down remained

a promising phone call during dinner. He turned to Charlotte, agitated as he said, “Charlotte, Mr. Murphy told me that he’s

elated as she summoned Lupine.

to carry out

with you. I’d like to talk

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