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Waking up from a nightmare several hours before dawn, Belle fetched a drink of water. 

She paused in front of her kitchen's window when she noticed a lit lantern in front of her mansion's garden. Her butler stood there, shovel in hand. This was no hour to be gardening. 

Curious, she made her way outside, but when she had gotten close enough to see a large and hollow pit next to her eternally-stoic and polite butler, she saw him pick up a rotten body. 

A DEAD BODY!

Her eyes widened fearfully when she saw her handsome butler drop the rotting body into the fresh hole. She asked in horror, "What are you doing?!" 

Surprised to see his young miss awake at this hour, he stared at her with the same expression he had been keeping up for all these years. He had made sure she was asleep before coming here.

"Gardening."

"And the body?!" she looked at him in disbelief.

"Fertilizer," he answered her before picking up the shovel that was on the ground. Belle was now certain something had possessed her butler. Who gardened dead bodies?!

She then heard him ask her, "Want to help me in planting it, Miss Adams?" he gave her a sweet smile.

Note: If you enjoy a book of comedy with light-hearted romance and a gothic background. This book is for you~

Belle Adams' Butler

Belle wanted to retort with a reply of no but that would only show a childish attitude in the eyes of her butler. She would have to be careful with her words from now.

"Wonderful," Lucas responded and when he noticed her staring at him, he asked, "Is something the matter?"

Belle shook her head, "It's nothing."

"Your breakfast is ready and waiting for you," he informed her, following one step behind her.

Last night she had gone asleep sad but when she woke in the morning, Belle decided that she would not give up! She would be the kind of woman Lucas would agree upon but then, thought Belle to herself, did he not agree with the way she was? Was this what her mother was speaking about?

The Edmonds- Part 2