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~
By the time they were returning back from the Edmonds' mansion, Belle was somewhat relieved that it was over. Carson Edmond appeared to be better when it came to the understanding that she wasn't going to form an alliance.
Her heart felt light right now. She looked at Lucas who sat next to her looking outside from his side of the window. Only if she knew what was going on that mind of his. She had heard about the vampire doctor who worked for the council, maybe Lucas needed his brain to be opened up to check why he was this cold but the chances of him letting others touch him were less and he would probably damage the other person, thought Belle to herself.
"How did you find the man?" asked Lucas when he felt her gaze on him. He turned his attention from the passing trees that were outside to look at her. The carriage they were in lightly shook because of the uneven road it was moving on.