Corinne had never heard about that painting before.

“How did you discover that painting?” she asked.

“I saw it at a friend’s house. Moreover, the paint on the canvas isn’t completely dry yet.”

Corinne’s eyes became focused. “And you think it was painted by Nellie Nymphaea?”

Lucas nodded sombrely. “Yes. Nellie Nymphaea’s style and brush strokes can be imitated, but there’s one habit that our mom has that no one else knows about.”

Corinne did not have much memory about her mother so she looked curiously at Lucas. “What habit?”

“Mom always adheres to a very standard way of holding her brush when painting, but when it comes to signing her works, she’ll put her hand down, causing her to pick up some paint from the canvas. And this will show up as a ‘C’ shape next to her signature.

and again. The painting I bought

moment, Edmund—who was sitting in the front passenger seat on stand-by—passed Corinne a painting that was about the size of

a look at

and saw the tell-tale ‘C’ mark next to Nellie Nymphaea’s signature, just as Lucas

The ‘C’ mark had all the lines and folds of the side of a hand running through

finally came face-to-face

reddened eyes. “How did your friend get this painting? And how come the paint isn’t dry yet?

to her house to teach her a lesson. Her art teacher had just left when I went to visit that friend of mine.

friend to arrange a meeting with her

went out on a field trip to do some landscape painting. She wasn’t sure she would be back, but

had ever done so out of her own accord. “You must

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