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.

someone sporting red nail polish had

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 prior signs

the three maids put under surveillance in the hopes

disappointed that they could not make further progress in their investigation

her children every day to no avail, which added

he expressed his wish of delivering an

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

track him down

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

summoned Lupine. “Get the car ready; we’re going

left to

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

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