The next morning everyone locked themselves in their offices, except Shawn and Niall, who preferred to go out all day to avoid trouble and talk a little about what had happened. Liam and Zayn didn't feel like the best people in the world, but they were calmer knowing that Shawn had already bled into the ring, he was already part of the family and at some point they would have to apologise, and they knew that time would tell them the right time to do it. Things in the mafia were starting to go as before, but Zayn now had more difficulty working, he got tired faster and he preferred to spend his afternoons lying on his bed next to his alpha than in some meeting with other, alphas especially, men that only caused him to be nauseated.

Harry and Louis had talked last night, and the alpha explained to his omega that he had tried to talk to Zayn, but hadn't gotten anywhere, even though that wasn't important anymore and Harry made him promise to apologise to Shawn, and that things would be good again.

"I'm starting to miss the house in the country." said the alpha as he arranged some sheets on his desk, Harry was sitting in front of him with his gaze fixed on his cell phone, but when he heard his alpha's words he smiled, "the calm, the loneliness, sitting in front of the fireplace in the morning..." he sighed, "I think we should take a vacation.

"Vacation?" He asked and stood up to approach Louis. "What kind of vacation, Mr. Tomlinson?" He sat on his lap and kissed him affectionately.

"Well... I don't know, I haven't thought about that." The curly laughed and leaned against the alpha's chest. Louis looked at the sheets on his desk and a thought came to his mind. "Have you ever been to New Zealand?

"Every weekend with my mum and sister," Harry said sarcastically, "of course not Lou, do you want to take me there?"

"I need to go to my vineyard to take care of some business, and you can go with me if you want." Harry stood up to see his alpha's face and narrowed his eyes.

"So you're going to go, and if I want I can go with you, huh?" Louis laughed and took his face in his hands to kiss him.

"Let's go," he kissed him again, "we're definitely going." He got up from the chair with Harry in his arms and he laughed.

"And are we going to leave right now or where are you taking me?"

"No, not today... I have... work... a lot... work, but tomorrow, tomorrow... we'll leave." He spoke awkwardly without stopping walking until he reached the door at the same time that he distributed multiple kisses on the omega lips. He leaned Harry against it and placed a kiss on his neck.

"Louis, I think that if you have work to do I should go," the alpha ignored his words and kept kissing him in the same place, "Lou... Lou..." The omega chuckled as he felt the beard that had begun to grow on the alpha's face brush against his neck. "Lou, I promised Stella to go buy some things with her... no... Louis!" The alpha had started to unbutton his shirt while he was distracted with the kisses, but upon hearing the scream of the omega, he stepped apart and looked at him with raised eyebrows.

"Yes?" he asked with fake innocence.

"I'm leaving, you get to work, we don't need any more problems." The alpha lowered him and Harry opened the door to leave the place, but as he walked he felt Louis give him a spank that resounded throughout the corridor, several of the guards who were there looked amazed and Harry jumped in surprise, "Louis!"

"See you later, little bear." He winked at him and with a smile she closed the door of his office, leaving an omega blushing in the middle of the corridor.

Harry walked to his sister's room and indicated that he was ready to go, they both left the house in the direction of a laboratory supply store, the beta had been working a lot since she arrived at the house and needed some things to continue with her investigation, but she didn't want to bother Zayn with it, so she preferred that Harry accompany her.

Meanwhile Louis started making some calls to announce that he was going to the vineyard, maybe spending a weekend in New Zealand instead of Jane's house would be good, so he could show Harry what they did there and do whatever work he needed. He ordered some omegas to pack his and Harry's clothes for the trip and to make sure to put everything that he omega used in his day to day so that he felt comfortable, in addition to preparing one of his private jets and once everything was ready, he went to Zayn's room to let him know that they would leave in the morning. He knocked on the wood three times and after hearing a 'come in' he opened the door and found the omega lying on his bed.

"What's the reason for your visit?" Zayn said in surprise as he settled in better. "You never come to my room."

"Because you're always at the office, but I see those naughty little ones won't let you work." He walked over to the bed and sat down next to Zayn. His belly had started to show even more, Zayn had had to order a whole new closet because nothing he had fit him, all because he always asked for custom clothes.

"My back already hurts and they haven't been born yet." The omega joked. Louis brought his hands to Zayn's abdomen and smiled.

"When they're born you won't even have to take care of them, I'm sure Harry and Niall won't want to let them go." He leaned in to whisper a few words to the babies. "Don't listen to Zayn, he's an idiot, when you grow up you're going to realise that Uncle Louis is much better than him." The omega hit him on the head and laughed.

"Well, I know you didn't come here to advise my own puppies not to hang out with me." The blue-eyed boy sat back down and looked into his eyes.

"I came to tell you that I'm going to go to the vineyard tomorrow, with Harry, we'll be back on Tuesday, you know it's a long flight and I want to have time to show him around." Zayn yawned and closed his eyes as he settled back down.

"You can do what you want." He said sleepily.

"I wasn't asking for your permission, I just came to let you know that we're leaving first thing in the morning, I have work there, but I also thought it would be a good idea... are you really falling asleep?" Zayn opened one eye and smiled, "okay, have a good sleep, see you on Tuesday."

Saying that, he left a kiss on the omega's forehead and got up, it seemed strange to him that Liam wasn't with him, but probably if Zayn was resting he was the one who had to take care of his tasks, everyone in the house was adjusting little by little at Zayn's new rhythm, more omegas helped him in his day to day and fewer alphas approached him out of fear of Liam.

He spent the afternoon in his office and when it was ten at night he returned to his room, where Harry was already waiting for him with his eyes narrowed in his bed, he smiled at the image and lay down next to his omega, drawing it to his chest, it would be a long weekend and they needed to be well rested.

"I got to talk to Shawn a bit today, he said he's not upset, but he did feel bad about what you all said, see? I told you, you alpha goofball, we need to talk to people before we make judgments." Harry scolded and the alpha nodded with a smile.

"I promise that on Tuesday when we return I will apologise to him, okay? Now to sleep, tomorrow we will leave here very early."

"Very well, goodnight, love, sleep well." Harry kissed Louis's lips and settled on his chest, the blue-eyed boy took his fingers to the green-eyed boy's hair and began to caress him loosely.

"Sleep well, little bear, I love you." He kissed his head and closed his eyes.

"I love you more." was the last thing he heard before falling asleep.

At dawn alpha and omega were already, half asleep, in the private jet, Harry was more than excited to get on one for the first time, but sleep won the fight with him, that's why he was curled up with Louis in one of the seats, both with a grey blanket on top, Harry's curls tickled Louis's face, but the alpha didn't care.

"Mr. Tomlinson, would you like something to drink? Something for breakfast?" Asked a beta who was holding a small notebook, he could tell that it was new, because everyone supposedly knew what Tomlinson drank on his business trips.

"Just a tea with two pieces of sugar, please, and for my omega a coffee with soy or almond milk and a spoonful of sugar." He answered and the beta nodded.

"Anything else, sir?" Louis stroked his omega's hair and glanced sideways at the beta.

"I think toast and jam is fine for now, is that okay with you, bear?" Harry nodded, still with his eyes closed, and Louis looked back at the beta. "That's all, thanks."

The boy withdrew immediately and Harry sat up a little better in Louis's lap, rubbing his eyes with his closed fists. As soon as he recovered from exhaustion he jumped and looked out the window, they were already flying, he smiled excitedly.

"LOU, LOOK, WE'RE FLYING NOW!" He yelled excitedly and Louis just laughed at the omega's attitude.

"Yeah Hazz, we're already flying, and settled in because we have 18 hours of travel left." Harry sat next to Louis and his breakfast arrived, something light to start the day.

"And why are we going to the vineyard, Lou? You said you had things to do there." Asked the omega, raising the cup of coffee to his lips.

"Some problems with suppliers and warehouse people, nothing serious, just that apparently a liquor company wants to take our place away from us, and is offering too large amounts of money, I'm going to make sure they don't leave us behind."

"Uhm, but do you know who are the people who want to do that?"

"That's the problem, it's an anonymous company, everything is too suspicious to be legitimate, business may not be that clean on our end, but we don't stay anonymous either," Louis explained, looking quite relaxed judging by the situation, "but let's change the subject, do you want to take a look at the plane?"

Harry nodded with a smile and they both took their time to finish their breakfast, toured the plane and even greeted the captain, all those hours went by pretty quickly and finally, they landed in Wellington, drove a couple of hours to the outskirts of the city and they reached the huge vineyard, there were whole kilometres of vines, and right in the middle of a house that looked small from the outside compared to the main house in London, with huge windows, an outdoor fireplace and a giant balcony, Harry could see a jacuzzi from where they were. A few metres from the house was a facade similar to a barn, completely black with the only difference being that the doors were made of light wood, it was intended to store huge barrels of wine.

Alpha and Omega entered the house and everything was perfectly arranged, the dining room, which could be seen through the large window, the kitchen just a few steps from the dining room, the hall that was adorned with a beautiful giant vase, the living room, the guest bathroom and at the bottom the stairs to go upstairs, where there were three bedrooms, the main one, which had access to the balcony with the jacuzzi, a full bathroom and a huge closet, another room that Harry declared from the beginning for his future puppies with Louis and a small office where his alpha could work in peace.

They arrived so tired that the first thing they did was go to sleep, because the next day Louis would have to talk to partners, it was destined to be a pretty boring Saturday. And so it was, Harry spent most of the morning walking around the vineyard, enjoying the feeling of the wind on his face and the sun kissing his skin, while Louis was in a meeting with three other alphas, in the dining room, from the house

By late night Louis was completely free, or at least that's what he told Harry, since that weekend in the country house, they unknowingly made an agreement that outside the main house, they would take care of themselves, cooking and tidying up what they messed up, it was for them like trying a little of what their life would be like if they had met in a more normal situation.

"Lou, it smells burnt already, are you watching the chicken?" Harry asked, still kneading the dough for the bread he had decided to make.

"Of course I do, Hazz, who do you take me for?" Louis replied and immediately took the chicken out of the oven, it looked a bit more golden on the outside, but he hoped it was still edible.

"You'd better, because I'm not having burnt chicken for dinner." Warned the omega and Louis laughed, giving him a small kiss on the forehead.

In the end, dinner wasn't so bad, the chicken was a bit dry, but nothing that a good homemade mashed potato wouldn't fix, plus the delicious smell of bread filled the entire house. Louis felt at home, the cinnamon with fruit and freshly baked bread had become one of his favourite smells.

"Can we get into the jacuzzi before the sun goes down? Please." The omega asked and the alpha gladly accepted.

They filled the jacuzzi and right after it a bottle of wine and two glasses were waiting for them, Louis already had everything planned. They shed their clothes and little by little they sat in the jacuzzi, facing each other, the water was warm and the sight of the sun going down through the vines was beautiful, but for Louis, that was not compared to the sight in front of him. His eyes, green eyes shining from the sun and love, his bite on his omega's neck, shining by itself, those chocolate curls that he loved to caress so much before going to sleep falling on the forehead of the love of his life, his lips reddish and plump little ones curved into a smile when he caught him staring at him.

"Why are you staring at me, Tomlinson?" Harry asked with a smile, Louis smiled and began pouring wine into both glasses.

"It's just that you look beautiful," he murmured, passing him a drink, leaning down to kiss his lips softly and smiled again, "I love you so much, Harry."

"Uhm, but I don't think you love me more than I love you." The omega replied with a bigger smile.

Then they didn't say anything, because Louis could get lost in that green forest that Harry had in his gaze, just as Harry could drown in the sea of Louis' eyes, they didn't need words because just by sitting in front of each other they already said everything. Harry approached Louis and sat on his lap, rested his head on his shoulder and together they watched the sunset, immersed in their own bubble, where there were no mafia fights, no traitors, much less blood, there where themselves, just alpha and omega, where limits did not exist and they felt free, they were at home.

"Lou," Harry murmured after a while, some stars were already visible in the sky, "where do you think we'll be in 20 years?"

Louis didn't have to think much about it, a smile appeared on his face and he began to barely caress the lower back of the minor with his fingertips.

"Together, in our house in the country." He answered without further ado.

"And did you ever think that you would be here, like this, with me?" He asked even more softly, as if it were a secret.

"Oh, my omega, I don't see myself anywhere if it's not with you," Harry looked at Louis with his bright eyes, "I'm nobody if I don't have you by my side."

And they joined in a sweet kiss, caressing each other and letting each other know how much they loved each other, because those caresses and kisses said more than a thousand I love you.

"Marry me, Harry." Louis murmured against his lips, Harry smiled and tears began to fall down his cheeks.

From a small space between the bottle of wine and the jacuzzi, Louis nimbly pulled out a small dark green velvet box, and inside this a ring with a square sapphire stone, with small diamonds around it, Harry gaped at him.

"So what do you say, little bear? Will you marry me?"

"Yes, of course. A thousand times yes, Lou." He rushed towards the alpha and began to kiss his lips several times, finally Louis was able to put the ring on his finger, and it was official.

They were engaged.