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.

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 okay to leave it there since it was a painting she

was sitting in the front passenger seat on stand-by—passed

have a look at this, Miss

took the painting from him and saw the tell-tale ‘C’ mark

all the lines and folds of the side of a hand running through it. This meant she would be staring at her own mother’s handprint if she

years, she finally came face-to-face with proof that her mother was

Lucas with reddened eyes. “How did your friend get this painting? And how come the

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 saw the

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

course I did. Regretfully, I 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

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