Chapter 13: Happy Birthday Quinlynn!

Vincent looked around the decorations being put up by the maids and butlers in the living room. He ordered to put red balloons in the way he had envisioned. Satisfied with how these decorations look, he went to check the kitchen. It amazed him how time passes so quickly. It was just half a year ago that he arrived in that dangerous place although he didn’t meet that child anymore Miss Mary did assure him that the child was in a good place. Hope he can see them one more time.

Arriving at the kitchen, he saw a triple-tiered cake with ‘Happy Birthday Quinlynn!’ written on it. The cake was made out of different flavours. The first layer was chocolate, the second tiered was vanilla flavoured and the third was red velvet. The huge triple-tiered cake was covered in a white icing decorated with elaborated red roses around the cake and it was towering on his small figure. He praised the chef for his hard work as he went to his room to prepare Quinlynn’s present.

‘Hope Quinlynn likes my gift.’  Smiling he excitedly went towards his room.

Everyone in the De’Rosa house was busy preparing for Quinlynn’s surprise birthday party. As for Quinlynn, she is currently in…

Right now, Quinlynn is watching how the senate works with her father. Her father thought that he needs to take to these kinds of places because as an heir she needs to get familiar with offices such as the senate and other important ministries. At first, Vincent was also going to come with them but unfortunately, he fell sick.

‘Tsk…Tsk…That poor boy is really fragile.’  

Quinlynn followed in her father’s footsteps as she observed the place they currently arrived. The room was a big conference hall with the wooden wall curved in a shallow U-shaped, tables and chairs organized bellow the podium. Over the podium, there lies a huge logo that Quinlynn recognized as the Royal Imperial Seal and below it was the speakers' rostrum. The wooden wall angling upward from the second story was a huge electronic vote tabulation board. On the left side were the observers’ booth and on the right side, there was a booth dedicated to other countries officials.

Duke Autumus took his daughter towards the observer’s booth, where he met his old acquaintance Baron Mills and his two sons. Nodding towards them, he glanced at his daughter who is in a daze.

“Quinlynn?”

Snapping out, she replied, “Yes, father?”

Duke Autumus looked at her face and said with a smile, “I will be going down. The meeting is going to start soon, so stay here and observe how this works, okay?”

“Yes, Father!” She nodded as she found a sit far away from the identical twins that are currently staring at her with curious eyes.

‘Who would want to stay near to a future heroine's harem members?! Not me!!’

Quinlynn kept her face indifferent without taking a glance at them otherwise knowing their character if she even let her guard down these twins will rush onto her like a hound starving for blood. If anyone observes Quinlynn they will see a girl seriously listening and watching old dudes catfighting with each other with an expressionless face but inside her mind, she is having internal war. The two boys saw her looking serious and as an old boring person. So they quickly lost their interest in her and went to charm some other girls beside them.

‘Good, go bother others! You psychos!!!’ Quinlynn thought inside in joy. 

Yes, these two boys with blond hair and blue eyes identical twins are the future harem members of the heroine, Bella Rose. They might look innocent and cute outside but underneath this skin, they are both sadists to their core. Caron and Caston Mills, with innocent and cute faces they will lure people inside their room and play with them until they die.

‘Those two are nasty people.’ Quinlynn shivered.

Quinlynn doesn’t know how the heroine tamed these sadist twins and hell she doesn’t want to know about it either. So far, when she was researching about the novel to draw comics about it- she was forced by her sister in her previous life. She found out one thing that all the heroine’s harem members although they have good looks outside inside they are all rotten and flawed. Heck, Quinlynn even thinks that the heroine who wants to seduce these guys is even crazier than her harem members. After all, who in their right mind would want to be surrounded by these lunatics?! Because of this reason, Quinlynn who is a normal person definitely do not want to get entangled with these psychos.

Hours pass by as Quinlynn pretended to seriously listen to the conference as her father came to pick her up. She almost cried seeing him.

‘Father you're my saviour! I almost died pretending.’

“Let’s go home, Father!” Quinlynn quickly took Duke Autumus’s hand and pulled him towards the exit. Nodding Duke Autumus showed a puzzled look as he followed along with his daughter who was dragging him.

They arrived at the De’Rosa villa. Quinlynn got out of the car with her father as they entered the house. Just when she opened the door, she heard loud overlapping voices,

“Happy Birthday, Quinlynn/Young Lady!”

With confetti thrown on her face. Needless to say, Quinlynn was surprised about this party because she didn’t know that the original Quinlynn and her shared the same birthday. She looked around the room. Red and blue balloons were floating near the multi-coloured banners that were draped on the top of the fireplace. There were stacks of unopened presents on the table in the corner of the room wrapped in colourful wrapping paper as the delicate silk bow carefully tied around each parcel. There was a table full of food and Quinlynn noticed it was all her favourites. In the centre, there is a huge triple-tiered cake covered in a think white icing decorated with elaborated red roses around the cake. On the cake, there was a candle ‘14’ lit. People she knew were the maids, butlers, her personal maid Mary, head Butler and Vincent staring at her. Smiling, she said, “Thank you, everyone!”

Vincent walked towards Quinlynn as he took her hand, “You have to blow the candle and wish Quinlynn.”

“Yes”

Quinlynn closed her eyes as she blew the candle wishing inside. 

‘I wish…’