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 Quinn's stayed for dinner and Belle welcomed their company except for Mr. Quinn's daughter Grace who often liked trouble. For the very first time, Grace wasn't throwing insults and it made her question how come the vampiress was sitting quiet.
Belle who was seated next to Damien asked, "What happened to Grace?" something didn't feel right about her.
Grace was Damien's half-blood sibling and he said, "I broke her fangs. For genuine reasons," he added and Belle looked taken aback by this. A vampire losing their fangs was considered to be the most shameful thing and for Damien to be the one to do it, she wondered what Grace had done.
Belle didn't know if she should feel bad about the girl losing her fangs where she would have to live in shame for the rest of her life or feel satisfied because she deserved it but then Grace was only the side girl where Hana was the one who liked to pull strings. Sometimes the company did matter, thought Belle to herself.