The front door was thrown open, Louis rushed in without noticing the people around him, his torso was bare and he wasn't wearing shoes, Harry followed him without knowing what was happening. Since the alpha ended the call with Zayn, he didn't say a word, he just took his phone and had a helicopter pick them up on the beach, there was no time to pick up their things from the cruise or to say goodbye to the few people they had talked to. .

The eyes of all the people were on them, it was the first time in the entire history of the mafia that they had seen the alpha in that way, his back had marks of sunburn, as well as scratches and hickeys that came down from his neck to lower abdomen. He entered Zayn's office without knocking and found a mess, Niall was standing in a corner of the room with a serious face and Liam was not present, which meant that things were worse than the blue-eyed had thought.

"You." Zayn muttered in annoyance. Harry stood behind his alpha feeling completely oblivious to the situation.

"What the..." He couldn't finish articulating his question by the time the omega punched him in the face.

"Where are the papers, Louis?" He questioned on a yell. Louis was still a bit dazed from the blow and looked at his brother in confusion, "WHERE THE HELL ARE THE STUPID PAPERS TOMLINSON?"

"What the hell are you talking about? What papers?" Zayn growled and rushed out of his office, everyone following him until they reached Louis's office. There were papers everywhere, cabinets were on the floor, and there were broken paintings everywhere, the alpha's eyes widened in surprise. "What happened here? Did someone break in?"

"I spent all night searching your office for the bloody papers, Tomlinson, all night and today I searched your room and there's nothing but stupid accounts, where are the papers?"

"Zayn, I don't know what you're talking about and if you don't tell me I won't be able to answer you." The omega pounced on Louis and started throwing punches in all directions, the blue-eyed didn't respond to any of them since he didn't want to hurt his brother while he was pregnant, but tried to hold his arms to make him stop hitting him.

"Someone leaked accounts, Louis, million-dollar accounts with partners who used to do business with my father, and they're upset because apparently you signed papers proving we stole several million euros, so I want to know where the hell you have the papers proving that it's not true, I need them for yesterday and you don't have them anywhere and I'm fed up, we always have to pay for the stupid things you do, if you hadn't left in the first place none of this would be happening" he shouted furiously.

Everything was silent for a few seconds, only the omega's agitated breathing was heard. Niall approached with downcast eyes, it seemed that Zayn had already taken it out on him before Louis arrived.

"Where are the papers Lou? So we can go find them and get this over with before we lose the biggest partners we have." Niall said in a serious voice, Harry had never seen him like that.

"At the country house, I wasn't going to have them here after everything that happened," Louis said without taking his eyes off Zayn, "not knowing that there was an infiltrator here at some point."

The omega left the office without saying anything, the aroma of frustration emanating from Zayn could be felt in the air; Louis looked at Niall for answers to what had happened and Niall placed his hand on Louis's shoulder wearily.

"Thank goodness you came back, Zayn went crazy when we got a call from an anonymous number saying our empire was going to fall, and after that our biggest partners started calling us saying they wanted their money back in the next forty and eight hours or so they would come to take it themselves."

"Why didn't you call me as soon as it happened?"

"Because you know how Zayn is, he thought we could figure it out ourselves and he didn't want to bother you," he explained and looked at Harry with a smirk. "Hi Curly, I missed you, how was the cruise?" He saw the marks on Louis's body and smiled, "did you enjoy your alone time?"

"Niall, explain to me what else happened, please." He interrupted, still somewhat upset, not paying attention to his comment.

"Well, all we know at the moment is that Liam went off to trace where the call was coming from, and he hasn't come back yet."

"When did he leave?"

"This morning, and Shawn is trying to ask his father for help, but the favours are running out for him and we can't risk that his family is in danger too," he sighed tiredly, "but hey, we already know where the papers and I recommend that you not go to your room, well, neither of you, you will not like what Zayn did, but someone is already cleaning everything."

"How did the account get leaked in the first place?" Harry asked this time, "it's all in Louis' office and no one has access to the place but us."

"That's the other thing we need to figure out, and like I said before, thank goodness you're back."

The alpha went to his room and took the first items of clothing he found, yellow sweatpants and a white t-shirt, dressed himself and left as quickly as he could to catch up with Zayn, who was already heading to the country house. He didn't want him to do the same damage there.

When he finally arrived there were already two trucks outside, Liam had also arrived. He entered the house and found the omega sitting in the armchair in his living room, looking at some photos that were arranged on the fireplace; Liam was watching him from across the room without saying anything and that worried the alpha even more.

"What are you doing here? Did you find the papers?" Louis asked as he approached them.

"You have a picture of when we were little, you have your diplomas and college degrees hanging on the wall, and you even have a nursery," Zayn said in a calm tone. Louis sat next to him on the couch and looked at him in confusion, "I guess I never thought about the possibility of you moving out, or Niall...and maybe it was because you never had someone the way I had Liam, but now that you have Harry I..."

"Hey..." The alpha put his hand on Zayn's shoulder and smiled at him, "who said I was leaving?"

"I don't know, you told me you bought this house and then you went on vacation, what am I supposed to think?" A strong smell of sadness began to emanate from the omega, Liam walked over and sat on the other side of Zayn.

"You don't have to think about that, love, I already told you." He said and kissed the torso of his omega's hand.

"There's a lot going on at the same time, Zee, you shouldn't be in this environment, there are still five months until the puppies are born, let us take care of everything, you just rest and focus on the pregnancy."

"I can't do that, Lou, and you know it, someone broke into your office and took something out of there or I don't know what the hell happened, we don't have time to rest, we all knew that things could get complicated since I realised that I was pregnant, and we were also aware that he would have to continue with the job no matter what." He let out a tired sigh and leaned back in the chair, unconsciously bringing his hands to his belly. "We have softened, that's why people think they can do what they want with us... we are mobsters, damn it!" He exclaimed with annoyance, "we murder those who disagree with us, they should fear us when they hear our names and yet here we are, in a house field crying because Louis wants to move in with Harry," all three had the last laugh.

"So we have to remind them who we are," Liam said with a smile, "who you are."

"He is Zayn fucking Malik, the main crown of Icarus Rose." Louis said proudly and the three of them laughed again.

"Organise a meeting with our partners." said the omega after standing up, "I don't want it to be a party and I don't want them to come expecting us to receive them with hospitality... I'm going to remind them who I am, who we are," he corrected himself, "and I'll make sure they don't mess with my family ever again."

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The blond and the curly took it upon themselves to tidy up Louis's office a bit to make sure no one saw the important papers the alpha kept locked up in his office. Harry had been quieter than usual, it had been a long time since he had seen his alpha so worried and serious and that worried him a lot, he thought that maybe it had been his fault, that maybe if he hadn't agreed to go on vacation with Louis, his office wouldn't have been left alone and none of that would have happened.

"Harry...I didn't want to say it but I'm getting dizzy already, you stink of anxiety, you need to calm down." Niall spoke as he approached the curly man, who sat in Louis's chair and closed his eyes.

"Sorry, it's just that all this scares the hell out of me." Niall sat across from him on the desk and looked at him understandingly.

"Nothing similar to what happened to you last year is going to happen again, I swear on my life that I'm not going to let anything happen to you again, and I'm sure that no one in the house will allow it." He promised seriously.

"I know Niall, and I appreciate it, but I can't help but think that if someone was able to get into Louis' office it must be because he was with me, and that's the exact same thing that happened last time."

"We don't know if someone entered here, nothing was stolen and the corridor was being watched, besides the fact that the door of this office is always locked, someone could have forged Louis' signature from any document, receipt, contract... It doesn't necessarily mean that someone broke in, and if they did, they better run before I get to them because I'm going to put a bullet in their head after they tell me who they work for."

"Yeah, well that just means we're going to have a long week." He yawned and smoothed his hair with his left hand, the blond noticed something shiny on one of his fingers.

"Harry." He called and the aforementioned looked up to pay attention to him.

"Yeah?"

"What do you have there?" The omega frowned, not knowing what Niall was talking about, but the latter stood up and took his hand, and indeed, he was able to check his thoughts.

The beautiful engagement ring that rested on his left ring finger meant only one thing to the alpha.

"Louis proposed to you?" Harry nodded his head up and down as he smiled at the memory. They hadn't told anyone yet, and they hadn't spent enough time together for them to notice before.

"Yes, he did when we went to the vineyard" Niall's eyes widened in surprise.

"The vineyard? Why the hell didn't you tell me?"

"I don't know, we were busy and I just forgot to tell you, but it's not important right now, you're getting married and Zayn is having twins and..."

"No, Curly," he interrupted him, "this is important, you're always going to be more important than work," he sat down again and looked him in the eye, "if there's one thing Mr. Malik always repeated to us, it was that the family always goes first, no matter what, we always have to protect our family like the thorns protect the rose bush, it's our motto, so never think that you're not important or in this case that your commitment isn't important," Harry smiled, "besides I don't know if you've noticed, but since you came here we're all different, so make sure you tell me everything, okay?" Harry stood up and hugged Niall tightly, he couldn't lie, he missed Niall, he missed going with him on deliveries and stopping halfway because the alpha wanted to buy something to eat, but more than anything he missed his friendship, since he began to be courted by Louis he had distanced himself from the blond.

"Thank you, Ni, really." He placed a kiss on the alpha's cheek and he smiled.

"Congratulations Curly."