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.

 

their nails seemed impeccably neat and

put under surveillance in

disappointed that they could not make further progress

every day to no avail, which added to her

wish of delivering an apology in person

of radio silence from Zachary, while Robert and Sherlyn worried incessantly about potential

efforts to track him down

He turned to Charlotte, agitated as he said, “Charlotte, Mr. Murphy told me that he’s meeting Zachary at the

Charlotte was elated as she summoned Lupine. “Get the car ready; we’re going

it.” Lupine left to carry out her

the arrangements. I’ll come with you. I’d

becomes angrier after seeing you, our discussion

“But-”

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