Zayn had ordered that the meeting room be ready for nine in the morning, the omega had made the decision to organise that meeting outside his house, since he was not willing to open the doors of his home to any kind of mafia-involved-people who doubted his loyalty. Lots of betas and omegas were cleaning every inch of the big building that once belonged to an alpha who thought he could accuse Zayn of being a cheat; this was located in the bare central London, in a fairly public place, but the truth was that Zayn had owned the place from the moment he asked his alpha to put a bullet in that man's head that game night.

"Are you ready, love?" Liam asked as he stuck his head out of the bathroom door, the omega looked at him with a smile and nodded, "fine, your car is ready Mr. Malik."

"I'm Mr. Malik now, huh?" He approached his alpha with a flirtatious smile on his face and he laughed.

"Do you remember when we were there for the first time?" The omega took his hand and kissed exactly where the skull-shaped ring was.

"Soon we'll both be Mr. and Mr. Malik, and that's the only thing we have to remember from that night," he placed a soft kiss on Liam's cheek and started walking towards the exit, "call the others, let them know we're out in five minutes not a second later."

Liam smiled and left the room to do what his omega had asked, still remembering that night and Niall's words resonated in his mind again, things had definitely changed since that day. He first went to tell Niall and Shawn that they should head to the front door and asked them to please try to avoid answering questions about their engagement at Zayn's request, after which he headed to Harry and Louis's door.

"Harry, I need you to help me with something," he said after knocking three times on the wood, the omega opened the door wearing a black suit and a pink shirt.

"Sure, what do you need?" Louis walked up to them both and nodded to the alpha.

"I want you to help me organise the security team, but we leave in five minutes and with everything else I haven't had time," he explained while reviewing some notes he had on a sheet.

"Why don't you tell the alpha that he's always chasing you everywhere?" Louis asked somewhat confused.

"He's not there, I sent him to the building to take care of things there and I also trust Harry more for this, after all he was the best bodyguard we had, and my right hand if you weren't so overprotective," Harry smiled at the compliment and looked at the list Liam had.

"I'll see you there if you want, Lou, you don't have to be late because of me, I'll go in the car behind yours."

"You go with Niall and Shawn, there's no time," Liam interrupted before Louis could refuse and started walking with Harry by his side.

"So that's the way to shut Louis up," he teased and Liam smiled.

"I've done it since we were twelve, the only way for Louis not to complain about something is to order him to leave and then run," they both laughed and went down the stairs until they reached the alpha's office, a place where Harry hadn't been in a long time.

"Did you have something in mind?" He asked as he looked at the list of security personnel.

"Not really, I haven't had time to think about the security I want in the place and I'm the head of security, ironic right?" He sat down heavily and sighed.

"Since you've been expecting two puppies, things have fallen on your shoulders, and I think you've done a great job," commented the curly one with a smile and started making notes on another sheet.

"I've done such a good job that we're doing this now, I've neglected the security personnel a lot to focus on Zayn's and yours... the truth is a lot of pressure, and since I lost my best soldier things have gotten worse," Harry laughed and shook his head.

"I haven't left yet, why haven't you asked me for a little help?"

"I didn't want to bother you honestly, you've been through a lot and technically since you started dating Louis you don't work for us anymore."

"But everyone does something here, Li." Isat in front of the alpha, "and I can always help you with whatever you need, in the same way that I help Louis. You do well to focus on your omega and your pups, it is your nature, your natural instinct is to protect them from the world," the older one smiled.

"Thank you, Hazz." The omega smiled broadly and continued to work in a hurry and in less than three minutes they had already mobilised all the security personnel in the house to divide into different cars and were assigned a different area in the building. Louis, Niall and Shawn got out in the first car accompanied by two guards; Zayn came out in the second accompanied by Liam and two other guards as well as two cars surrounding them; behind him was Harry accompanied by four alphas.

Everyone in a caravan arrived at the building, it was eight forty and by that point all the members were already waiting. There was a huge table, each alpha had a folder in front of them showing copies of the evidence they needed to disprove the scam that had begun to circulate among the partners.

"Mr. Malik, you are quite well, you are not wobbling like the last time we were here" Liam whispered in his omega's ear, who looked at him trying to keep his serious look.

"Liam, don't start, we're not here for games." He said without stopping his walk.

"Aren't we here for games? Because I remember last time you wanted me to undress you on that couch over there," he gestured at the couch and Zayn stopped on his spot.

"I'm going to get you out of here if you keep talking." Liam would have laughed if the elevator doors hadn't opened.

The three bosses entered the room emanating power. Harry walked next to Louis, Shawn next to Niall, and Liam behind Zayn. Everyone in the room stood up and watched as they settled into the table without saying a word, for as with the Queen of England, no one was allowed to speak a single word before Mr. Malik did.

"Good morning, everyone," he began, and with a gesture he indicated everyone to take a seat, "I invited you all to meet here this morning to discuss some important things, as you can see, in front of each one of you there is a folder; I am going to ask you to open them right now. Louis, could you explain to them what they will find there?"

"Of course," he stood up and watched everyone open the folders. "If you look closely at the documents you have in front of you, you will notice that there is the official copy of that account that you have all seen or heard about by now," they looked from one to the other in confusion at what was in front of them, "we don't do scams, we don't need to steal your money and we don't make mistakes." He sat down again and put his hand on Harry's leg and gave it a gentle squeeze to make sure everything was in order.

"I wanted to talk to you about something else, in that folder is a list of things that I would like you to take into account for the future of our partnership," they all began to analyse that sheet without saying a word, the atmosphere was full of tension and fear. "From now on if you don't trust us we will stop being associated with you, and I think you all know what it's like to have the biggest mafia in the world against you."

"This doesn't make sense," an alpha sitting in the background complained, "here it is being insinuated that we will have to sign every transaction that is made from now on, but there are many of us who have companies at stake, empires." His gaze was directed in full to Liam as he spoke. "Mr. Payne, if you'll excuse me I'd like to keep my business with you anonymous." Liam's gaze flicked to the man with confusion, then back to his omega.

He could feel Zayn's frustration flood his body through the bond, the way that the man wasn't talking to him, but to his alpha, like he was insignificant, made his blood boil. A small smile appeared on the omega's face and he reached his hand to the gun he kept on his belt, he got up and fired at the ceiling, everyone jumped in their places due to surprise, Louis squeezed Harry's leg a little making the omega smile, he would definitely tease him about it later; the gaze of every person in that room turned to him.

"I want to make something clear," he spoke loudly so that everyone could hear him perfectly, "I'm the boss, and who you should speak to is me, and whoever doesn't like it then..." He pointed his gun up at the man and shot in the right shoulder without hesitation. "Am I being clear?"

"So now he's going to impose fear in exchange for power because you're an omega?" He laughed, "typical of omegas, besides, how are we going to be sure that all this won't happen again? How are we going to be sure that these documents weren't forged and the account we saw was the real one?" Harry looked at the ring on his finger trying to stay oblivious to what was happening, he didn't want the attention of the alphas to be on him and Louis to do a whole scene while trying that no one looked at him, but upon hearing the words of that alpha addressing his fiancé in that way, he changed his posture and looked at him with annoyance.

"I can assure you, Mr. Speight that you don't have to worry about it, I'm going to make sure things go smoothly, the same way I've done for the last ten years." He reached for the gun in his belt and put it on the table. He watched Harry's expression for a few seconds, he could feel his annoyance through the mark and he smirked before sliding the gun up to him, "if you don't think you can trust us and that we are not loyal people, then you can back off, we don't need to associate with a person who, in addition to thinking that the omegas can't be in command, has no loyalty to us," the green-eyed omega got up with the gun in his hand, pointing directly at that alpha's eyebrows, keeping his eyes fixed in the man's, waiting for Louis to give him the order to shoot. "The door is there, and it's big enough for you and all your pride to get out of here right now, and if you don't like my offer, my omega will shoot you, you choose."

The alpha set his jaw as he looked at the gun that pointed in his direction, he looked at the other partner who had been shot and swallowed hard, he knew full well that if Icarus Rose did not work with him he would lose all his power and his business would disappear in a matter of seconds, and if he didn't work under all their demands and under the command of an omega they would kill him mercilessly, so he nodded and the omega lowered his weapon.

"Smart choice, Mr. Speight," Harry said, "I can assure you that next time I won't put the gun down," he sat back down and put the gun on the table for Louis to take it again and gave him a small smile before looking back at him.

They continued explaining a little more about the new clauses in the contract that they had to sign, most of the partners were cooperating knowing full well that it was not good for them to mess with Icarus Rose.

"Does anyone have anything to add?" Zayn asked and an alpha cleared his throat, motioning for him to speak with a wave of his hand.

"I'd like to ask Mr. Mendes something," Shawn looked up and settled back in his seat to pay attention, "you come on behalf of Swallow, your father's mafia, and I wanted to know how can we trust that you are in your five senses and that you will take decisions that benefit all of us now that you are about to marry Mr. Horan?" The alpha looked at Shawn's hand and noticed the Icarus Rose ring, "besides that I could already notice the ring on your finger... I think it would be much better to talk to your father when these kinds of situations arise, and besides, what will happen to Swallow once Mr. Mendes dies?" Niall was about to speak when Shawn waved him not to, he cleared his throat and spoke.

"I can assure you that my personal life does not have any influence on my father and the decisions that the mafia 'lied', and that you should not care about my relationship with Mr. Horan. I can assure you that I will take the decisions that he deems appropriate for Swallow and for you." he kept his eyes fixed on the alpha at all times, using that tone of disgust so usual for him, "and as for what will happen to the mafia when my father dies, I am still the Michael Mendes' legitimate heir, the only thing that will change is the last name, because I'll be a Horan by then." Niall looked down trying to hide the smile on his face. The alpha didn't say anything anymore and they continued discussing some doubts from other partners for more than three hours.

"If there's nothing more to add, I'd like everyone to sign their contracts so we can retire to continue with our obligations." Zayn said and immediately everyone started signing the sheets, a beta went on to collect the folders of more than twenty members and when everyone finally came out they were able to release the breath they had held for almost four hours.

"I had to go to the bathroom for like two hours, I don't know how I could hold it for that long," Zayn said, coming out of a small bathroom that was in the living room, he sat down next to Liam again and rested his head on his shoulder. Everyone laughed a little, the tension that had been in the place before had disappeared and everyone spoke with a calmer tone; Liam motioned for the guards inside the room to leave them alone and they left, closing the door behind them.

"Well I think your plan worked, Zaynie," Niall spoke as he began to stretch out in his chair, "everyone came out trembling with fear, especially the man you shot, I think we'll have to clean up the blood he left behind or it's going to stain the floor."

"Honestly, I had forgotten that I shot him, if it weren't for the fact that he didn't want to shake my hand before leaving, I wouldn't even remember it," the blond laughed loudly.

"How the hell did you think he was going to say goodbye to you? He couldn't move his arm, and I'd be surprised if he regained mobility after this," he said as he laughed.

"I hope they understand once and for all that they shouldn't mess with us, what's wrong with that idiot, Speight? Why does he think he can talk to you like that?" Harry said, still annoyed and everyone laughed," he spoke seriously, "and also to you Zayn, I hope they have learned or if not I will take care of killing them myself."

"I'm sure you would, bear." He kissed her on the lips and Harry pushed him away.

"Bear, curly, Haz, Hazza... What other nickname can we give Harry?" Niall spoke and Harry glared at him, "well, well, I'm just kidding, we have cute nicknames too, right sugar cube?" He nudged Shawn with his elbow and Shawn frowned at him, but then smiled willingly to play along.

"Of course, my sweetie pie," they all burst out laughing, except Harry.

"And you?" the blond asked in the direction of Liam and Zayn, "what are your nicknames?"

"Well, Zayn calls me stupid alpha all the time... also insolent and ignorant alpha," Zayn got up and punched him in the shoulder while everyone laughed.

"I don't tell you like that, you stupid alph...." he stopped before finishing, "okay, I got it," the alpha kissed him and pinched his cheek.

"Don't worry, I'm already used to being mistreated."

"Oh no!" Niall yelled, "we don't have to start with the abuse that our omegas give us because I have a pretty long list," everyone started laughing and Shawn hit him on the back of the head.

"I don't know what you're talking about, my omega treats me very well" Louis said this time and Harry smiled, "he even told me that he wanted to marry me," they all looked at him surprised.

"WHAT?!" Zayn exclaimed and stood up to see the ring on the omega's hand, "since when? Why hadn't they told us? You're an asshole."He hit Louis, "you had to tell me , I'm your brother, I thought we told each other everything "he said, offended.

"There were too many problems to announce it, besides I think it would be better to keep it between us for now," said the alpha, "I feel that it is not necessary for everyone to know it, or at least not yet, of course, if you don't mind, love," he said addressing Harry this time.

"Sounds like a good idea to me, we just have to tell my mom and Stella."

"Well, whatever happens, I am very happy for you, and it seems that we are full of weddings, we are all engaged!" They laughed.

After a while they decided to return to the house to eat, they talked at the table about the things Shawn and Niall had been choosing for the wedding, they talked about the flower arrangements, the colour palette, the invitations and even the clothes they should wear. each one to make Shawn stand out from all the guests. They also began to suggest possible names for the twins, according to Niall, if they were two girls they would be called Hazel and Nia, and if they were boys one would be called James and the other Lucas, names that Liam and Zayn added to the list of possible names; Harry suggested Isaiah and Jacob if they were boys and Emily and Bella if they were girls, letting them know that he would be the one to baptise them if they decided to do so.

☺☻☺☻

Three weeks passed since that meeting took place and two weeks before Shawn and Niall got married, Harry felt horrible, he had dizziness and he didn't like anything, so he was in his new office with Shawn and Zayn, waiting for a pregnancy test to be ready.

"I'm going to pass out," Harry said hyperventilating, Shawn was looking every two seconds at the pregnancy test and Zayn was holding Harry.

"You have to calm down, you're making me nervous," Shawn scolded and Harry nodded.

"Our pups are going to grow up together! HAZZ, I PREDICTED IT!" Zayn yelled excitedly and Harry looked at him in confusion.

"What are you talking about? How did you predict it?" He asked and sat down on the couch, he hoped he wasn't sending so many things to his alpha, since he wasn't home at the time, but with Liam accompanying Niall with the seamstress to measure his new wedding suit.

"About a month ago I was with Liam shopping for clothes for the twins when I saw a little outfit like the ones you like to wear and I thought it would be nice if the first gift for my niece or nephew from Louis's side was that, something they can go with combined," Harry felt his eyes fill with tears and hugged Zayn as tightly as he could, he didn't want to hurt him and his bulging belly wouldn't let him squeeze any further.

"The test is done! It's already done!!" Shawn yelled and the two omegas ran towards him, they looked at the blue artefact and Harry nearly fainted at the result.

Two well-marked lines had been drawn on that piece of plastic, two lines that meant that he was pregnant, he was expecting a baby boy or baby girl from Louis.

His omega was jumping with happiness, they were going to give his alpha a puppy, but on the other hand, his rational part was very scared, he was afraid that history would repeat itself and he would not be able to keep that little boy or girl alive, what if he loses the baby again? What if Louis got mad when he saw that he was a useless omega?

"Hazz, what is it? Your scent stinks like fear and anxiety, you're shaking... are you crying?" Shawn snapped his fingers in front of the omega's face and he reacted.

"Louis is going to be so happy Harry, why are you so scared?" Zayn asked and Harry sobbed, "Hazz?"

"What will happen if I lose it? Is he going to stop loving me? I'm a useless omega, I don't want to lose my puppy, not again." He sobbed and put her hands on his belly, Shawn and Zayn looked at each other.

"Again? Harry, what are you talking about?" Shawn asked softly.

Harry told them Sebastian's story in detail, as he told it to Louis, the omegas interrupted him from time to time to express their opinions in not-so-pretty words, and once he finished his story, he sighed and looked down, embarrassed, feeling like they were probably judging him at the moment.

"Hazz, you do know it wasn't your fault, right? You didn't know you were pregnant, you were drugged at that party, and without your knowledge, besides, you think it was probably for the best, would you have wanted to bring a puppy into the world with a father who mistreats his mother?" Harry shook his head at what Zayn was saying and the omegas began to caress Harry's curls and cheeks. "When they informed me that you were in the hospital I freaked out, I thought the worst, that that idiot had hit you," he clenched his fists tightly and took a deep breath. "You're not going to lose another pup, Hazz, because King was an absent alpha, he didn't know how to take care of you properly and it was his foolishness' fault that you lost the baby. This pup is going to come to light up our lives, and if something happens it's okay, everything will be okay, Louis will understand whatever happens."

"But he's just going to prove that I'm a useless omega, and he wants more pups," Harry muttered and Shawn wiped his tears gently.

"He does want children, but the desire for his omega to feel comfortable and be well is greater. Believe me that nobody here is going to judge you for something like that. Hazz, we are your family and we are going to support you, okay? Now let's go, we have to go prepare the surprise for Louis," the three omegas got up from the chair and left the office.

Harry had to have blood tests done to confirm, which happened, they had tested positive too, Zayn dragged them into Barbara's room.

"Mom, mom!" He knocked on the door and the omega opened, she was already wearing her pyjamas.

"What happened, honey? Is everything okay?" She asked, stepping aside to let them pass, the three omegas hopped inside.

Barbara's hands went to her son's belly, giving little caresses to the place where her grandchildren were, waiting for them to say whatever they wanted to say.

Saying nothing, Harry handed her the pregnancy test and Barbara carefully examined that piece of paper, going over what she said until the bottom of the sheet said positive, she looked at the green-eyed with a smile and bright eyes.

"Are you serious?" she asked and Harry nodded. "Oh honey, you don't know how happy you make me!" She hugged the curly man and jumped, "now I'll have three grandkids! When will I get the fourth one, Shawn?"

The four omegas laughed and chatted with the elder about the plans they had on how to tell Louis, each idea was crazier than the one before, and the pregnant omegas might have cried a little at the thought of their children and nephews all playing together. In the rose garden, just as Louis, Niall, Liam and Zayn used to do, Barbara asked for tea to be brought up to their room and they spent the time listening to tips from the elder on pregnancy, promising that she would give the order so that each tomorrow they would also bring lime tea to Harry, in the same way that they brought tea to Zayn.

Once the three alphas arrived, Harry hurried to his room and took out of the closet the booties he had bought that day he went shopping with his alpha, he really hoped he could put them on his pup, there was nothing he was more excited about than seeing his little boy or girl running around the house after the twins with those little boots on, a tear of happiness rolled down his cheek and he quickly wiped it away when he heard the bedroom door open, he closed the box of little boots and hid it behind from his back.

"Bear? You were feeling a little anxious today, is everything okay?" Louis asked with concern in his voice, Harry nodded. "Are you sure? You know you can tell me, Hazz, did someone do something to you? Do the bodyguards keep telling you something? Give me names and I swear heads will roll..."

"Lou," the omega stopped him with a soft voice and the alpha approached, "everything is fine, love, I only have some news for you, and I'm a little scared, but I trust that everything will be fine," they both sat down on the bed and Harry put the box on his fiancé's lap. "Open it, please."

Louis removed the lid of the box and stayed for a few seconds staring at those little boots, with that blue pregnancy test in the middle of them, two lines drawn, he looked at Harry with his mouth open in a big "o".

"You're not playing, are you? Please tell me this test is yours and not Zayn's, please tell me they haven't been planning a prank all day," he muttered and Harry shook his head, his bottom lip caught between his teeth.

"It's real, Lou, I would never play with that," the alpha was silent and kept looking at the boots, the omega was trembling.

He handed over the blood tests and Louis read them silently, Harry couldn't feel anything through the mark and that made him even more nervous. Suddenly, the alpha quietly got out of bed, left the tests on the bed and walked to the closet.

"Lou?" He called out with some fear at his alpha's lack of response.

The blue-eyed boy came back with his hands behind his back and his face expressionless. Harry expected the worst, but Louis pulled a little suit from his back that matched perfectly with the boots, finally a smile appeared on his lips.

"Please tell me we're going to be parents." He asked eagerly, with a side soft smile, and all the fear left Harry's body.

"We're going to be parents, love, I'm pregnant," Harry muttered and Louis leaned in carefully to kiss him lovingly.

"We're going to be the best dads in the world, and I'm going to take care of you and our puppy, and..." He put his hands on his omega's belly and pressed his forehead to that same area, "and I'm going to protect you and daddy from anything in the world, okay? I'm going to take care of you with my life because you are the most valuable thing I have."

He kissed Harry's flat stomach and rose ring to then passionately kiss his omega's lips, both men's eyes were brimming with tears, Louis wiped the tears from his omega's eyes and kissed his nose .

"I'm scared, Lou, what if I lose this pup too? What if I'm a useless omega who can't have children?" He sobbed loudly and Louis shook his head heartily, sitting up and pulling the omega onto his lap to hide his face in his neck, within those months he had learned that it calmed him down.

"I'm going to take care of you, love, I'm not going to let anything happen to them, and guess what? If you lose them, I'm going to continue to love you and take care of you, because I want my omega to be healthy, well and happy, okay?" He kissed his head and Harry nodded. "I love you so much, little bear, so much, you just made me the happiest alpha in the universe, do you know why? Because I have the most beautiful omega in the universe carrying my pup in his belly."

Harry laughed and inhaled the scent of his alpha, he caressed his omega's belly gently, pulling up his shirt and leaving his warm hand there.

"But when did it happen? You take those birth-control pills and, with everything that has happened these weeks, we haven't had sex," the blue-eyed asked softly.

"But we had a heat together at the beginning of last month, on the cruise, remember?" Louis nodded slowly and kissed Harry's head again.

"It doesn't matter how or when, but that pup is going to be the most loved in the whole world, just as my omega is the most loved omega, yes?" Harry nodded and sat up to face Louis squarely.

"Lou, uhm, can we keep it between us for now? I want to make sure it's safe first before announcing it to partners and employees, please." Louis hugged his omega and nodded.

"Then this stays between us, my beautiful omega," they agreed and kissed again, happy for the new stage they would enter.

Not knowing that behind the door, a traitor was listening attentively, mentally noting all the information he had just heard. He hurried away from the room before anyone saw him, this is going to interest my bosses so much, he thought as he walked further away, he shouldn't say this over the phone, it was important.

Styles was now expecting a Tomlinson puppy, they would be so happy when he gives them the news, but not for the reasons Harry and Louis would think.