"With that being said, Barron and Belle will fill you with other details about the mansion and the two guests that we have while I go bring back someone here," Lucas said looking at Belle who gave him a nod. 

"We'll take care here," she gave him her word. 

Lucas then left the room, walking towards the doors of the mansion but once he was away from the eyes of the servants, he snapped his fingers and in a blink of an eye he disappeared from there. 

Councilman Joshua had made a quick run out of the Adams' mansion after waking up with a pain in the side of his head as it felt like he had been smacked by something. When he had woken up, there was no one around him. 

Though he was a vampire by nature, he couldn't get the thought of the woman coming back to life. He had visited the Adams mansion when Mr. and Mrs. Adams had died in a gruesome and b.l.o.o.d.y death. There was too much blood splattered on the walls, not just theirs but also the other servants which were common during a ma.s.sacre. 

While his other fellow councilman Mathias had taken Mr. Adams body into the carriage, it was Joshua who had picked up the lady's body where her face was utterly crushed and only a corrupted vampire had the ability to kill someone in such fas.h.i.+on of anger. Thinking about it gave him chills and seeing the woman come back to life, he knew it wasn't normal!

Joshua continued to run away from the mansion because he believed there was some witchery going on in the house. How else could one explain a person coming back to life?!

He turned around to make sure no one was following him and he was glad until he crashed into someone, "Look where you are walking!" scolded the man in a gruff voice. 

"I am so sorry!" councilman Joshua apologized to the man, bowing his head.

"Knucklehead," muttered the man who had been walking on the street. 

The councilman's head was muddled up. He didn't understand how the woman came to be alive. Was she summoned back from the dead? Surely this was something to do with witchcraft, thought Joshua to himself. Entering the town which was the nearest, he decided to speak to the magistrate about this. 

If a dead person was coming to life, it would also mean the butler had possibly sacrificed the two girls, Susan and Olivia to bring Mrs. Adams back. He huffed for air as he had been running nonstop. Finally seeing the magistrate's office which wasn't too far from where he was, he turned to look behind, to see none other than the butler who was walking towards him. 

Councilman Joshua gulped and he started to sprint towards the magistrate's office and as it was day, the streets had people walking, that needed the man to be careful to not b.u.mp into someone. 

The next time he turned, the butler was nowhere in sight and his footsteps slowed down. Where did he go? asked the councilman. Taking a few more steps forward, he finally turned to look ahead of him where the butler stood. How did he get there?!

The councilman started to run in the opposite direction but just as he reached next to an ally, Lucas pulled him in the dark street and before anyone could notice, both Lucas and the councilman had disappeared leaving a cloud of smoke behind them. 

Lucas returned back with the unconscious councilman after two hours. The servants were as quiet as before, seeing the butler carry a man on his shoulder, their eyes widened. 

"He was going to the magistrate's office," informed Lucas, dropping the man on the ground who was unconscious for the second time in the day, "As Miss Belle doesn't want the man dead, we will be tying him and keeping him here until we solve the problem and make sure he won't open his mouth."

"Ropes!" Barron ordered and the servants quickly went to get the ropes. 

Belle looked down at the man who looked like he was having a b.u.mp on his head. She could tell that while trying to fix one thing, there was another mess being created and to fix that came another problem which turned to make their lives busy. 

"We cannot keep him here forever, can we?" asked Belle to have Lucas smile. 

"We can go with Barron's suggestion of killing him. That way he will have no one to go and speak about what he saw to anyone," Lucas said to have her quickly shake her head. 

"Too many innocent lives have been lost. Is it strange that I don't feel guilty enough for the loss of the maids and my parents?" she asked him softly. 

Lucas stared at Belle who felt his gaze and she met his eyes, "What happened today, isn't your fault and sometimes you go through enough pain that you stop feeling it as much as you need to. It is very normal for both the mortals as well as the dead. A thief will feel guilty the first time he steals but when he continues to do it, the guilt slowly starts to slide down." 

"Is that how you feel when it comes to killing people?" questioned Belle. 

"You want to know the truth?" he asked her. Belle nodded her head. 

He turned around to have himself lean against the wall on one side of his body, "I enjoy killing people, Belle. The blood on my hands and the people screaming, it brings joy and solace to my mind. I don't know if it's because I am a reaper or if it's because it is who I am." 

Maybe this was not what Belle was looking for but now that Lucas had confessed, she looked at his soulless looking eyes. 

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