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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

Lucas noticed the way Belle kept darting her eyes back and forth at him to only look back at her food when she realized he was already looking at her. There were times when Belle thought he wasn't looking at her but what she didn't know was that he had always been looking at her, enough to study and understand what she was thinking at the moment.

After her questions had been answered, the room had fallen quiet for them to be able to hear the crackling sounds of the logs of wood burning in the fireplace.

Belle didn't go to ask him more questions tonight as she didn't know what else Lucas had up his sleeve and would use to trick and scare her. But she was stubborn too. Something told her he wasn't the pond and he was instead the sea that could swallow her up.

"How was your time with Mr. Edmond? Mrs. Edmond sent another invitation for lunch again," said Lucas to her.

Care- Part 1