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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

It took a few more days for Belle to get better and when she felt like she could leave the mansion without any problem, she decided to meet the ghoul that was reporting back to her with the girl's possible death.

It was more than half an hour since she had been following the ghoul, walking through the forest, "Where are you taking me?"

The ghoul didn't respond to her and she could only wonder if she had met up with another ghoul of Lord Nicholas, "We have been walking for quite some time now. It's been really long since I last walked so much," she said, filling up the silence around them and to receive no response.

Was the ghoul not in the mood to speak to her?

Longing heart- Part 1