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~
The councilman had a look of horror on his face and his mouth was left wide open with what he just saw on the portrait and in the kitchen, "S-she…" Lucas could tell that the man was undergoing shock, but it was no time to be playing expressions as one spirit was in the kitchen with Belle and another creature was up in the room.
In the middle of it, the stuffed rabbit coming down the stairs added only more confusion, "LUCAS! LUCAS! He went missing!"
the councilman finally asked, "W-what's going on in here?"
"Things you are not supposed to know," answered Lucas and he added, "My apologies," and the councilman gave out a perplexed look before his head was smacked hard to have him fall down unconscious.
"Woah, why did you do that?" asked Barron, who received a look from the butler, "What? What did I do?"
"Is Belle's father missing?" asked Lucas brushing away the man who laid on the stairs to start walking up.