Belle could feel her heart thumping in her chest, she raised her hand to wipe the sweat that had acc.u.mulated on her forehead. She didn"t know how to control her soul from going to the land of the dead but thankfully she knew how to get back which was the saving grace else she would have been in the land of the dead. After seeing Olivia and the reaper who wanted to take her to the gates, it made her question why Olivia was out and wandering and why she hadn"t pa.s.sed through the gates, wasn"t that the normal routine for a soul to pa.s.s through the gates once they died? Asked Belle to herself. The clock in her room continued to tick away, the movement of its hand known to her ears as it felt that was the only thing she could hear right now. When she looked to her left, she noticed how the rabbit was sitting on the chair.
Pus.h.i.+ng the blanket from her body, she turned around to place her feet on the cold ground. Colder than when she had got inside the bed to sleep. There were still a few hours before the dawn would break through the sky and bring the next day.
The light in the mansion was still there as the candles were burning, reduced in its height, the gave out the last few minutes in giving light and Belle made her way towards the kitchen to fetch a drink of water.
After drinking water, she paused in front of her kitchen window when she noticed a lit lantern in front of her mansion"s garden. Her eyebrows furrowed, wondering who was there at this hour of the night. Working so tediously and she noticed it was none other than her butler who stood there, shovel in his hand.
This was no hour to be gardening.
Belle picked up a lantern from the kitchen, lighting it, 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?!"
Lucas, who had pushed the body he had brought from the forest heard Belle"s voice and he turned to look at her with a pa.s.sive expression. He had given one job to Barron and that was to look after Belle and make sure she was fast asleep but Barron himself had fallen asleep.
He hadn"t expected her to wake up and catch him but now that she had seen he replied, "Gardening."
"The body?!" Belle looked at him in disbelief. When she took a closer look, the person even though who was under decomposing and the smell making her flinch from where she stood, she felt as if she knew the person.
"Fertilizer," he answered her before picking up the shovel that was on the ground.
Belle was now certain something had possessed Lucas. Who gardened dead bodies?!
She then heard him ask her, "Want to help me in planting it, Miss Belle?"
If Belle was a human, she would have fainted by now but her being a vampire kept her wide awake. Especially after she had just woken up from the nightmare. Her eyes darted between the dead body and the butler who stood with the shovel in his hand.
She then realized who the man was, "T-that"s, that"s Mr. Robinson," she uttered the words while taking a step back from Lucas. Why was he dead? How and when did he die? Belle looked up at Lucas, his eyes looked back at her in a calm expression and she wished he would explain to her what was exactly going on here and why he was burying the body in the Adams garden.
"Did you kill him?" she asked. The man had visited the mansion but she had not expected to see him dead.
Lucas gauged her expression and then replied, "He wasn"t worth living in this realm so I sent him to the dead."
Belle would have never guessed that Lucas was capable of killing someone but by how the corpse looked right now it was more than a kill.
While Belle was trying to catch hold of her thoughts on what she just stumbled upon, Barron who had fallen asleep woke up with groggy eyes and yawned looking at the empty bed and his mouth froze. Where was the girl?! Waking up quickly he looked back and forth to notice the door of the room ajar open.
"f.u.c.k!" Barron cursed and started to wonder where she was and looked for the girl until he came upon a window that reached until the ground to notice Lucas and the girl and a dead body that was in the pit. Today seemed like the day he would be reaped by the thirteenth Grim.
The rabbit turned around and started to run as quick as it could, its fluffy legs making way outside when it heard whispers in the wind that came from a distance and it stopped, looking in the direction of the sound that was slowly growing.
Barron quickly made his way towards the two of them not caring about acting dead anymore.
It wasn"t just Barron who heard the whispering.
Belle who was staring at the dead body frowned further when she heard a whispering reach her ear and she looked in that direction,
"What is that?" Belle asked as the sound started to increase and got much more clearer.
Lucas asked, "Did you visit the land of the dead?"
Belle nodded her head, "I did."
"Some creatures followed you back from there unable to resist your soul and the path happened to be open enough for them to enter this world," he said and in a few seconds, Belle noticed how there was smoke creeping in the ground and the creatures finally made their presence known.