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

under surveillance in the hopes of

was disappointed that they could not make further progress in their

every day to no avail, which added

wish of delivering an apology in person with Sherlyn and Louis in tow. Zachary ignored

silence from

efforts to track him down

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

elated as she summoned Lupine. “Get the

left to carry out

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

go; if he becomes angrier after seeing

“But-”

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