I want to see you. I need to see you. After all these years I was finally hoping that you would come back to me. And even though I'm fully aware that our relationship wasn't the best, and it was all my damn fault, something inside me still wanted you back. Maybe it was the thought that you were happy now, and it wasn't with me.

The thought that now you had an alpha who made you happy.

And I was still here, alone.

I never wanted to hurt you Hazz, I know you'll never know because I'll never have the guts to say it out loud, but I didn't want to hurt you, and although it's hard to believe, after losing you I lost the direction of my life, I no longer wanted to escape to the houses that I had told you about, I no longer wanted to have a family and I no longer wanted to have a job in my father's firm, I wanted more... I wanted you.

Attending that wedding was not in the plans, I had to leave London as soon as Charles' instructions were done and the plan was in place, but knowing that you would be there, knowing that I could see your eyes and hear you again was enough to disobey Tomlinson's orders..

After that warm conversation with you and your alpha I had to leave, I know who he is and I know what they do, and no, I'm not afraid of them, but seeing you there, with your pregnancy and with your family living with him like you never did with me broke my heart, my soul. I walked the streets of the city alone, I had no protection with me because if I took someone Charles and Edmund would know that I was disobeying them and I couldn't risk them hurting you; I was as lonely as I felt. Everything was dark, curiously dark in fact.

I could feel several footsteps behind me stopping every so often, they were following me. Louis had said he'd talk to me later, but it hadn't really mattered, I had hoped to be out of town before he started looking for me, but I hadn't taken into account that he's a Tomlinson, and they usually want things done as soon as possible.

"If they're going to follow me you should at least be two metres away so I don't notice you," I said as I stopped to get a cigarette, I had started smoking after you left, as a defence mechanism or maybe some kind of addiction that helped me fill the void or just another reason for my father to hate me.

I kept walking and the footsteps started to get faster, maybe I would die tonight, or maybe, and if I was lucky, they would use me as some kind of message and let me live, and maybe that would help me change, to leave the dirty business and do something good, I could move to america, change my name and start a family.

And then it all went black.

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Harry did not agree to go to the hotel room where they were staying until long after midnight, when the newlyweds were already saying goodbye to go on their honeymoon. Some people stayed to enjoy the party a little more even without the couple, but the curly one was already tired and even a little sore.

Louis helped him change, delicately removing each piece of clothing and sliding his extremities into the pyjamas that his omega had chosen for that night, a t-shirt from his alpha because, according to the curly, he and his puppy were constantly comforted by the smell of Louis, and that was demonstrated every night, as he rested his head on the alpha's chest and allowed himself to be covered by the scent and heat of the blue-eyed man.

"Lou?" The omega called in a whisper as he caressed his alpha's chest.

"What's up, bear?" Despite the darkness of the night, Louis managed to notice that smile on his omega's face and it didn't take him long to know exactly what he wanted.

And an hour later they both lay under the covers once more, their naked bodies completely covered in sweat, although this time the omega waiting to rest and the alpha accompanying him until he fell asleep.

The clock struck half past two in the morning, Harry was completely asleep and Louis hugged him from behind, leaving little kisses on his omega's shoulder. He would never get tired of seeing him like that by his side, but at that moment he had things to do.

He sat on the edge of the bed, careful not to wake the curly, he took one of his cigarettes and lit it, it had been a while since he didn't smoke so as not to harm his baby, but that night he did, he needed it. He got up and walked to the small closet in the room, where someone had been in charge of accommodating each of the couple's clothes for greater comfort; he took one of his white shirts and underwear, as well as one of his signature black suits and dressed inside the bathroom. He looked at himself in the mirror and smoothed his hair back as Harry had started to get into the habit of clinging to it while they were in bed and it was all messed up. He put on one of his expensive watches, his rings and left the place.

"Two of you stay here with Harry, don't let anyone in and don't tell him where I'm going, and the rest of you come with me." He ordered quietly and the guards waiting in the hallway nodded and the alpha began to walk down the hotel hallway, followed by four other alphas. Minutes later they got into the car and without saying anything it started.

"Do you have him?" he asked.

"Of course Sir."

"Was he hard to catch?"

"No, sir," Louis laughed.

"Of course he wasn't," he said as he looked out one of the windows, "I doubt he knows what he does, but we'll see about that later."

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"There's not a soul out there, no one to hear my prayer," sang the alpha in the middle of the room, tied head and feet to a chair. "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! A man after midnight..."

Louis entered, slamming the doors to announce his arrival, followed by the alphas, the warehouse was small and smelly, but it would serve the purpose Tomlinson had in mind with that bastard, Sebastian whistled.

"Well, well, well. It seems that my order did arrive, after all, someone does listen to prayers," Sebastian exclaimed with that same arrogant smile that he had at the wedding, Louis didn't even flinch.

He walked up to one of the guards and whispered something in his ear, he nodded and left the room followed by the others, leaving the two of them alone.

"Uh, do you want to be alone? I like the direction this whole situation is heading."

"Oh yeah?" He walked over to Sebastian and looked at him with that serious face he gave his mafia enemies. King smiled.

"At first I was afraid, I was petrified," Sebastian sang once more, but this time Louis slapped him, shutting him up, although that only brought another smile to King's face and then he licked the blood that began to come out of his lip inside.

"I don't know what they told you, but that's not how things work here." he took his chin and moved closer until he was just inches away from him. "Singing 'I Will Survive' isn't going to save you." King smiled.

"I don't know what all the attractive villains in the stories think, but if you come up to me like that you just make me want to kiss you," he tried to bring his lips closer to Tomlinson's, but Tomlinson stopped him with the strength of his grip, "you like play dirty, I see."

Louis released him forcefully and took a few steps back without taking his eyes off the alpha, tensed his jaw and took out a knife that his father had given him before he died, it was similar to Niall's, but this one had his initials on it, and in side there was a rose forged in metal.

"Honestly I'm not into those things, but if you like making cuts I'm not going to complain, unless that's what you want, then I can cry like an omega there too." Sebastian said and Louis smiled this time.

"You don't have the slightest idea of what I'll be doing, do you?" He asked as he pulled a chair closer to the other alpha's.

"I know who you are, I know what you sell, and I know your past, so I reckon I know quite a bit about you." Louis took a cigarette out of his jacket and lit it, and after taking a puff, leaned back in his chair and crossed one of his legs.

"So?"

"Yeah."

"I see," he took one more puff. "I also know who you are, I know you sell and I know your past, so I consider that we are equal," Sebastian's gaze separated from the alpha's eyes, there was some fear in him now that he knew that Louis knew him.

"And what do you think you know about me?" The alpha smiled and took another drag on his cigar before speaking again.

"Sebastian Easton King, twenty-three years old, American, Cambridge lawyer," one of the guards entered the room and gave Louis a glass of white whiskey and left. "Your father, Brandon King, your mother, Melissa King, I think you were going to have a sister but your mother suffered a miscarriage two months pregnant, but that's something even you don't know because you were away doing business with powerful alphas, if you know what I mean," Sebastian's breath he had started to shake a little, but Louis remained in the same position, finished his cigarette and flicked it out before pulling out another one. "That's your past and who you are, now what you sell," he finished his drink and one more guard entered and refilled the glass, "you are dedicated to selling lies, dreams, aren't you?"

"They're watching us, right?" He questioned, ignoring him.

"They're just betting on whether I'll finish my bottle of whiskey first or the blood I'm going to drain from your body." He got up and quickly drank all the liquid, then threw the glass and it crashed into one of the walls. "You run into a poor idiot on the street and tell him you're going to make him a millionaire, then you take him to your boss and make him just another soldier in your army," he took a drag on his cigar and looked at King, "but you don't, you are nothing."

"You have no idea what I'm doing, right?" The older man laughed.

"I know you work for my father," Sebastian's eyes widened and Louis smiled as he took a last drag on his cigar, it had taken him by surprise. "You're the one who hasn't the slightest idea what I'm doing," he began to walk around the room, he just wanted to scare him a bit before he started asking him the real questions he had in mind. "You see, you came in here asleep, my men carried you and tied you to that chair you're in, but they left a small dagger for you to use, you could escape." Sebastian looked towards a table that Louis was pointing at, on which, sure enough, there was a small dagger within his reach, "but you didn't, do you know why?" He stood in front of him, "because nobody prepared you for this."

"Who told you I wanted to run away?"

"Who told you that's something they have to tell me?" He put the cigarette to Sebastian's lips and walked to the door, where someone handed him a glass with more whiskey. "You know, I like you, you have the potential to go to prison and meet some alpha who is willing to believe all your lies, then both of you would escape and live a happy life, but I won't even let you do that."

"You're so funny Louis, now I see why Harry chose you," he glared at him hatefully and Sebastian smirked at him.

Louis took his knife again and approached King with a smile on his face, it infuriated him to hear that bastard say the name of his omega but he was not going to let him know it, if he had learned anything in his training it is that emotions cloud your judgement, and he wasn't going to let Sebastian distract him with Harry right now.

"Tell me why you work with Charles Tomlinson," he asked and made a small cut on Sebastian's cheek, causing a moan to escape from his lips.

"I thought first you waited for me to tell you I don't know anything and then you tortured me to finally tell you everything." Louis slashed at the cheek again and Sebastian let out a harsh cry.

"I'm not here to play, my omega is waiting for me at home and I plan to take him to dinner in Paris tomorrow, so if you don't mind, I'd like you to answer my question, what the hell are you doing working with Charles Tomlinson?"

"Louis, Louis, Louis," he sighed, "that's why you smelled so much like the omega," he laughed and spat out the cigarette that Louis had put in his mouth after taking a drag on it, "I see you had to sleep with him to come here with a more open mind to talk, otherwise you would kill me as soon as you heard my voice, or am I wrong?"

"Look King, I don't have time to listen to you say all those stupid things that you are used to telling everyone, if you want me to kill you right now I will do it, but I would like to tell you that Icarus Rose is not limited to just cutting the flower, we cut the problem in the bud and both your parents and your friends and that alpha you sleep with every weekend must know something, and I doubt they won't tell me if I have this knife in my hands," with that being said he buried the knife on Sebastian's right shoulder, he knew perfectly well what he was doing, because his training included an anatomy class so that he would have knowledge of the weakest points of the human body, those with the least risk and the most deadly, and the knife was found in one of his muscles, the alpha let out a cry of pain and that arm had been completely immobile.

"I won't tell you anything you unhappy bastard, there's nothing to tell you because the plan is already done and I'm just one of the faces you'll see until the big day comes." Louis smiled, punched him in the face and walked away from Sebastian .

He walked to the door and was given a full glass again, exchanged a few words with the guards and returned accompanied by two, who began to beat King mercilessly, fracturing many of his bones and causing multiple haemorrhages in his body. And it wasn't until the alpha raised his hand that they stopped, leaving King badly hurt.

"Okay," he sat back down, "I have a lot of questions for you King, like what are you doing working for Charles Tomlinson? Why the hell did you go to the wedding? Why the fuck are you still alive? What did you expect when you came here and faced me all alone? And most importantly, why should I leave you alone after everything you did to my omega?" Sebastian spat out some blood and looked Louis in the eye.

"I work with your father because I want to, I went to the wedding because I wanted to, I'm still alive because you want it that way, I didn't expect to face you and I never asked you to leave me alone, Tomlinson." He replied, "done, I answered all your damn questions, now shoot me so I can die in peace," Louis laughed and stood up, looked at his watch and it said half past three, he had been told that Harry had asked for him on one occasion but that he had gone back to sleep almost at instantly, he needed to get back before he suspected anything.

"Very clever, King, very clever, but you already tired me," he approached him and began to unbutton his shirt and still in the state he was in, the alpha laughed.

"Then I was right, you didn't want to kill me before taking me..." The blue-eyed cut him in the chest and he let out a piercing cry.

"Do you want to know what it feels like to lose a baby?" He began to make a cut in his lower abdomen, from end to end, it wasn't too deep but the blood was dripping quickly, Louis's hands were completely covered in that red liquid just like his white shirt." You see, Harry told me everything in detail, and I'm willing to make you suffer like he did, you'll see hell before and after you die."

He kept inserting the knife until his hand was almost completely inside Sebastian's abdomen, who had not stopped screaming in pain at any time.

"Whatever they're planning to do, it doesn't matter, because I'm going to see Charles and his entire entourage burn down, I'm going to burn them alive one by one if necessary, and you my dear Sebastian King, will be the first." He whispered in her ear, then reached out his hand and began to strangle the alpha without using all his strength.

"You're going to fall, Tomlinson." He muttered with what little strength he had left, "and when you do I'll be waiting for you in hell."

"Well, I'll see you there then." He released him and took a few steps back, trying to normalise his breathing.

He pulled the gun from the back of his belt and looked that alpha straight in the eye. His pupils were dilated and filled with fury.

"Good night Sebastian."

And he pulled the trigger.

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Louis returned to the hotel around four in the morning, covered in blood and running to his room to take a bath and hug his omega until his arms got tired. Louis had never been like that, he didn't kill for fun, he didn't kill unless it was completely necessary, and throughout his life he had only killed three people, the daughter of that alpha he shot by accident had been the first, then he hadn't touched a gun in years; Killian had been the second man he'd murdered and the first he'd shot with intent to take his life, and with him were all the people who died when Harry was kidnapped; and finally, Sebastian.

He entered the suite as silently as he could and went directly to the bathroom, washed his hands with hot water, the blood had already dried and only the memory of that young man who had hurt his omega so much remained; he took off his clothes soaked in blood, the blood of that bastard, now his mind felt at peace, and he hoped that the nightmares would stop tormenting Harry. He took a quick shower and went back to bed, hugging his precious omega from behind as if nothing had happened.

Not realising that Harry had already been watching him.

Lunch with the bride's family went as normal, Harry had pretended not to see that Louis had huge dark circles under his eyes and that he was about to fall asleep anywhere, not to mention that every time someone approached him from behind he was startled a little and clenched his fists, he was suspicious about what he had gone to do, but he decided to keep quiet until his alpha decided to tell him.

"Did you enjoy the party, honey?" Alana's father asked, a very smiley and pleasant omega, Harry nodded.

"It was a lovely evening, and Alana looked gorgeous in her wedding dress," Harry nodded in her parents' direction, "but I wanted to ask about one specific guest."

He felt Louis stiffen next to him, Alana's mother nodded.

"Of course, honey."

"Yesterday I met a young man, an ex-university classmate, his name is Sebastian King, do you know where he knows your daughter from?" Harry asked with a smile on his lips, which grew bigger when he heard Louis clear throat.

"Sebastian King? We don't know anyone with that last name, dear, let alone any guests, are you sure?"

"Sure, he was wearing a red suit, quite colourful, and tacky if you ask me, it draws too much attention and the omega is supposed to stand out in their day." He drank some of his strawberry smoothie and Alana's mother agreed.

"You're right, honey, but I think you're getting it wrong, the young man introduced himself under a different name, he was the event coordinator." Harry frowned and nodded, "and now that you mention him, we haven't been able to find him to thank him for such a beautiful event."

The omega nodded again and breakfast continued as if nothing had happened, Louis was nervous and Harry could feel it through the mark, and of course he was going to ask him once they got out of there.

They were walking side by side in silence in the hotel garden, Harry looking around, one hand entwined with Louis's and the other resting on his belly, Louis keeping his free hand inside his trouser pocket to hide his trembling a bit.

"Where were you last night, love? I felt you get out of bed at dawn," the omega asked casually, without looking at his alpha, who started to get nervous.

"Me? I went for a smoke, bear, because I didn't want to do it with you there, it might hurt our pup." Louis lied, hoping it would sound convincing, but Harry nodded, making a sound like an affirmation in his throat, Louis had smoked a cigarette inside the room when he got up.

"And for smoking a cigarette you arrived drenched in blood at four in the morning," the curly man blurted out as if it were the most normal thing in the world, Louis stopped suddenly.

"Love, I can explain..."

"I just wish that if you were going after my ex, you would have the decency to tell your pregnant omega, I don't like you keeping things from me, Lou."

"I'm sorry, honey," Louis whispered, stopping to stroke his omega's belly. "I didn't want you to worry about that crap, I could take care of it myself."

"I know you can do things alone, but don't feel like you can't talk it out with me, or that I'm going to stop you," Harry said, pressing his face against Louis's chest.

They stayed like that for a moment, Harry listening to Louis's heartbeat, and the alpha with his hands clinging to the omega's hip, a quiet moment where through the bond they could say everything.

"Did he suffer?" Harry asked barely in a whisper, Louis pulling back a little to meet his eyes.

"He would have to live a thousand lives to forget all the pain I put him through," the alpha replied, firm and serious, Harry smirked.

"That's all I needed to know, alpha."

Their lips met in a soft, sweet kiss, one that tasted like a promise for a bright future.