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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

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Belle then asked, "Do you know why they painted the walls? I thought the houses that are under investigation in the council were always left open and untouched."

"They closed the case as there was nothing to find. Turning the walls white is better than having bloody walls, don't you agree?" the woman's words struck in Belle's mind, and she only nodded at the person, "How were you acquainted with the family?"

"I was a friend of their son. An old childhood friend."

"Oh, you must be feeling very sad after knowing it. Expectations always hurt, don't they, dear. Why don't you come to my house and I will make you something to drink? I have freshly baked cookies," offered the woman.

Inn time- Part 2