Belle Adams' Butler
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~
Other half- Part 2
Belle who had returned back to their mansion with Lucas and Barron finally sighed, seeing how Barron had gone to the bathroom, pulling the curtain so that no one would disturb him.
"Are you alright?" Lucas asked her, his hand touching her face as if confirming she was the girl who he knew and not the one who had tried to attack him. Belle's hand reached to place on top of his hand and she nodded at him.
"Are you okay?" she asked him in return.
"Yes," said Lucas who didn't have the wide range of emotions like the people who existed in this side of the world.
He had expected the other half of the soul would be untouched as what had stepped into the land of the dead was still part of Belle but he would have never guessed for the other half of the soul to manifest and take its own form. The person he met was not Belle but an alter ego of Belle that resided in the dead.