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 didn't know how to digest this information…
Her parents were dead and the way they had died she should have added it up, but to think that the spirits that belonged to the land of the dead had consumed her parent's soul, taking their form to live in the land of the living didn't feel right. The little part that was left of her parents was now gone.
"We have someone else in the mansion who came to meet you," she let him know to have him raise his brows in question, "It is the same councilman who had visited when both my parents died. He said they have found a similarity between Olivia and another woman's death that points at you being involved in it. Who is Susan?" asked Belle.