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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

When the carriage stopped, Belle was still stuck at the thought of how she was able to see her mother as a whole person again. The mansion looked the same. The flowers, the plants, the gates having the same colour. Her eyes continued to look around and she followed her mother. A servant came by to take their coats.

Stepping inside further, she saw the maids she was familiar with, bowing their heads as they walked past them.

"I need your help in rearranging the items we bought from the Valley," said her mother and Belle agreed to it in a heartbeat. To be able to live with her mother and stay around her, she considered it to be nothing less to a fortune, "Mrs. Edmond has placed a tea party in her mansion. She was asking for you while mentioned about her son," said her mother with her back facing Belle, as her mother was storing the items in the cupboard.

Longing heart- Part 2