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.

try to fix her mistake and remind herself not to do it again, but she never does remember. So the same thing would happen again and again. The painting I bought this time has a little ‘C’ paint mark next to the signature. She must’ve thought it

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

a look

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

of the side of a hand running through it. This meant she would be staring at

she finally came face-to-face with proof that

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

frowned. “My friend said this painting was drawn by her art teacher when she came over to her house to teach her a lesson. Her art teacher had just left when I went to visit that friend of mine. That’s when I

ask your friend to arrange a meeting with her art teacher for you?”

didn’t get to meet her art teacher because she and another student went out on a field trip to do some landscape painting. She wasn’t sure she would be back, but she promised she’d

out of her own accord. “You must bring

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