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.

that someone sporting red nail polish had come into

covertly investigated the members of

wore nail polish, and

their nails seemed impeccably neat and showed no

had the three maids put under surveillance

disappointed that they could not make further progress in

children every day to no avail, which added to

his wish of delivering an apology in person with Sherlyn and Louis in

appetite over three days of radio silence from Zachary, while Robert and Sherlyn

efforts to track him down

night, Louis received a promising phone call during dinner. He turned to Charlotte, agitated as he said, “Charlotte, Mr. Murphy told me that he’s meeting Zachary at the Regium Hotel in

summoned Lupine. “Get the car

Lupine left to carry out

me handle the arrangements. I’ll come with you. I’d like to talk to Zachary

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