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 still had her boney arms around Lucas' neck. When she finally pulled away after the close corruption that took place in her body, she felt like she could breathe again. Her senses were back where she was not in an agony of pain or was not able to see anything.
"What if I return back to the mortal form?" Belle asked Lucas. Right now all they had done was stop the process but the moment her body would return back, the corruption would continue and her body was not far from completing the process. She didn't know if there was a way to fix it.
"Let's make sure you turn back to your mortal form," replied Lucas, his hand moved to place on Belle's boney head.
"This feels weird," she muttered and she noticed how Lucas' skull moved with the facial expression.
"Do you feel alright or do you need to rest?" Lucas asked her, making sure that she was completely okay in her skeleton form.