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.

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

in the front passenger seat on stand-by—passed Corinne a painting

have a look at this,

‘C’ mark next to Nellie Nymphaea’s signature, just as Lucas

hands started trembling. The ‘C’ mark had 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

she finally came face-to-face with

did your friend get this painting? And how come the paint isn’t dry yet? Does your

teacher when she came over to her house to teach her a lesson. Her art teacher had just left when

a meeting

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 inform me first

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