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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

Barron saw how the maids stared at him and he pulled both of his long ears in his hands, "This is not the time to be mum. Did you understand what I said?" he asked.

"YES!" came the collective agreement. Barron then started to count the number of people who were in the room, "One, two, three, four, five…" one was the coachman who was outside and in the shed, that would leave three more servants of the mansion, "Where are the other three?" he asked.

"Peyton went to clean the rooms as instructed by the butler. Cassie is out in the backyard," answered one of the maids.

"She told she was going to dry the clothes with Cassie but I didn't see her there," replied the maid to see the rabbit run away from the room. When Lucas stepped out of the dining room, he caught Barron running towards him.

Back from the dead? - Part 2