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.

They concluded that someone sporting red nail polish had come into Charlotte’s room.

 

Lupine covertly investigated the members of the household for potential suspects.

She noticed that a few of Sherlyn’s personal maids wore nail polish, and three of them painted their nails red.

 

seemed impeccably neat and showed no prior signs

Lupine had the three maids put under surveillance in the hopes of uncovering

was disappointed that they could not make further progress in

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

of delivering an apology in person with Sherlyn and Louis

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

efforts to track him down remained

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 Pillere tomorrow

as she summoned Lupine.

left to

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

after seeing you, our

“But-”

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