Four hours earlier.

Blows from tiny hands were what woke Liam and Zayn, their little pups were already more than awake and ready to start the day. Zayn went straight to his office, as he still had some pending before breakfast, but not before, of course, kissing his alpha.

"Good morning, Malik here, is everything in order at the entrance?" Liam began to check in with the guards at the entrance like every morning, his voice was still a little hoarse because he hadn't quite woken up yet, but a cry turned his attention to his son. "Why are you crying, my beautiful prince?" He said changing his tone of voice to a friendlier one and walked up to take his baby in his arms.

He put the walkie-talkie down on the small dresser and completely forgot that he hadn't received a response from the guards at the front gate.

Answer that he would never actually have because the only ones who had witnessed that message had been the crows that flew in circles over the house, being the messengers of death and witnesses of the corpses that lay at the entrance of the mansion.

Three hours before.

Alphas and omegas had started their day first thing in the morning, donning their signature matching black suits. Breakfast had already been served at the dining room table and the family was sitting in silence, feeling the same tension that everyone had perceived the day before, even Barbara, who in the most tense moments was able to lighten the atmosphere, was silent that morning.

Little River's crying broke the gloomy atmosphere of the family moment, discomfort from lying in the little bassinet that Jane had given them when she was born was what had caused that crying; Harry stood up and went over to his daughter to pick her up and calm her down, since if she kept crying the twins would second her.

"I'm going to take the twins to the playroom," Liam said suddenly, getting up from the table and placing the napkin that was resting on his lap to the side of the plate where he was eating. He approached the chairs of his sons and lifted them up, finally before leaving he looked at the green-eyed omega "Will you come with me, Harry??"

Said nodded and took River's bottle from the side of Louis's plate and placed a soft kiss on the top of his head before leaving the dining room following Liam in silence.

The others continued eating for a few more minutes, Zayn checking his phone from time to time and Niall playing with one of his rings under the table. Hardly anyone touched their food, and they all exchanged brief glances from time to time.

"Omega, we have to go, we're late for the ultrasound" Niall announced as he left his napkin on his plate and stood up, Shawn nodded and they both left, but not before thanking the omega who was standing next to the door leading to the kitchen in case they needed anything.

The dining room fell silent again, only with the sound of plates being removed and cutlery crashing against the fine porcelain of the house's dishes, all of which only made the omega's hair stand on end.

"Guys, I'll go shopping, I won't be long." The omega announced and withdrew, even though it wasn't her job anymore, she liked doing it.

Zayn quietly got up from the table, leaving his napkin on his plate and retreated to his office while he stared at his phone screen, and minutes later Louis did the same.

☺☻☺☻

The beginning of the end.

Barbara

"I need you to put everything in the cupboard." Barbara said as she entered the kitchen without looking up to realise that none of the omegas were there as usual.

But when she didn't receive an answer, Barbara stopped and looked up to see a green-eyed alpha with a few years on her, his face was familiar, but the dark and icy look in his eyes caused her to drop the bag she had in her arms and all the purchases fell to the floor.

"What a surprise to find ourselves in a situation like this again," the alpha said, irony bathing his voice.

"I know you..."

That tragic afternoon Barbara was sitting at the kitchen island, her locket between her fingers, a photo of her postpartum with her baby in her arms, and on the other side a more recent photo of Zayn, their little and only son, an omega.

She closed her locket when she heard a thud outside, after a few moments a somewhat scared green-eyed alpha entered, she could deduce that it was the first time she had been there, and she was so naive to think that it was a new employee.

"Can I help you with something, young man?" The omega asked with a smile, the alpha pulled a weapon from his belt.

"G-keep quiet," he demanded with a shaky voice and Barbara swallowed dry, she tried to press the panic button, but she felt a blow to the back of her neck that left her unconscious.

They were invading the house.

"You were here the day the Maliks were murdered." She muttered in surprise, the alpha smirked.

"I see you have a good memory, you are right."

"What the hell are you doing here?"

"We come to take revenge," announced the alpha, walking towards Barbara with a dark smile. "And not even you will survive to tell about it. To tell that Edmund Styles and Charles Tomlinson took control of Icarus Rose."

The omega trembled, but did not back down. Tomlinson and Styles.

"Shoot me then, don't let me watch my children defeat you, each and every one of you if that is your wish" she challenged with her head held high, the alpha seemed to consider it.

"You know what? I've got a better mission for you than being the first victim of all this shit." He pulled out a pair of handcuffs and handcuffed her to a bar on the kitchen island. "Tell that bastard, Harry, his daddy's coming for him."

Edmund

I took out my weapon and hit her hard on the head, causing her to fall to the ground in a faint, the plan had to be followed to the letter and I couldn't risk her escaping and being discovered.

I still had to go for Malik.

I walked slowly until I left the kitchen, reaching a corridor hidden by a huge pillar, there were many like these around the whole house since it was an old construction, I took a small copy of the house plans from my bag and was able to see where I should hide if necessary, although I wasn't afraid of being seen by one of the three idiots who claim to be the head of Icarus Rose, I was going to kill them if they tried to stop me.

I took a few steps until I reached the large dining room and a guard managed to see me from the other entrance. I pointed my gun and fired without stopping to think; the alpha fell and a bloodstain painted the white walls of the house. Blessed be the inventor of silencers.

"One down." I said to myself and walked out of the dining room and into the hallway.

I had to get to Malik's office somehow, but first I had to make sure no one saw me, so I started to sneak my way to the main stairs. A guard was leaning against the wall facing the front door. I knew he had a gun with him from the bulge it made in the back of his jacket, however he wouldn't have a chance to get it out by the time I got there.

I quietly walked up behind him, put my gun away and quickly put my arm around his neck, just under his jaw and the other over his forehead and twisted his head to the right using all my strength, thus breaking his neck. His body fell against mine and I held him tight so he wouldn't make a noise, I had to make him pretend in some way that he was still alive, so I leaned against the pillar at the beginning of the stairs and against a small table that was one side of it; a small trail of blood dripped from his ear due to internal trauma.

I wiped the sweat from my forehead and drew my gun again to finally walk back down the hall, this time going to the right side of the property, where the offices of all the employees were. I approached one of the pillars that stopped the stairs and hid myself. From there I could see Malik sitting in front of his desk, writing some things on his computer.

"Blake!" I heard someone behind me say. I tried to go around the pillar to avoid being discovered, feeling the footsteps and babblings getting closer.

Blake and Zayn.

The little boy entered his dad's office on all fours, yelling nonsense and a smile immediately appeared on Zayn's lips.

"What is my precious prince doing here?" He said as he walked over to the baby. He picked him up in his arms, placed a small kiss on his forehead, and walked to the window that overlooked the courtyard. "Someday all of this will be yours, you know that?

Blake smiled even though he didn't understand the meaning of the words the omega was saying to him, he simply reacted to his father's loving tone.

"You and your sister will take care of the whole business like I did, although of course, we'll be here to help you as long as life allows us," he left a kiss on his cheek and Blake hugged him.

The omega looked outside again and watched Niall's car pull up, smiled and turned around. Liam was leaning against the door frame watching him with a smile.

"I bet you didn't know he was here" the alpha said and reached over to take Blake into his arms.

"I could feel you from before you came to my office." He kissed his cheek and smiled "Where is Blair?"

"In the game room with Harry and River, I'm going over there, do you need anything?" He asked and the omega shook his head. "Okay, if you change your mind, call me."

Saying that, he turned around and left the office.

Liam

He walked with his little baby in his arms, looked sideways and could see the guard leaning against the pillar, he better not be asleep, because that would cost him his entire salary for the month.

In half an hour he was scheduled to go out to the park with Zayn, and in the meantime, he planned to wait for him in the playroom. He entered the elevator, seeing how Niall and Shawn entered, the omega made a sign for him to wait for him and he nodded.

Fortunately for the intruders in his house, Liam didn't notice the line of blood dripping from his ear, much less the little red trail that slipped from the corner of his mouth.

Shawn

He was exhausted, his back and feet aching from even thinking about standing or walking any more. Niall was gawking at the ultrasound, with his eyes shining and a huge smile on his face, his baby seemed to be the most beautiful in his eyes even without being born.

"Just look at him, he has my eyes!" He exclaimed enthusiastically, Shawn sighed.

"Niall, his eyes don't even look right and you're already harassing him with that," he muttered wearily, Niall shrugging.

"And he has your hair too!"

"Niall...you can't look well yet," he sighed again, "good morning." He greeted the guards at the entrance, as always, without waiting for an answer, until...

"Good morning, Mr. Horan." They greeted him back, and Shawn stared at him with knitted brows.

The guards never greeted him back, and that was a recurring complaint.

He stared at her strangely, until he noticed a red stain on the wall.

"Niall, did you see that?" He asked cautiously.

"What, sweetie?" Niall replied, Shawn shook his head.

"Nothing, forget it."

He looked straight ahead again, almost forgetting that Niall was still talking to him. Liam was about to leave by the elevator, he signalled for him to wait.

"Alpha, I'm going with Liam to the playroom, okay? See you later. I love you."

They kissed each other goodbye and each one went their way.

Niall

He kept his eyes glued to the ultrasound, it was a precious little thing, and his. The alpha walked over to Zayn's office, and seeing that it was open, he just gestured towards the ultrasound, then pulled the phone from him and gestured that he would send him a picture, Zayn nodded with a smile.

Niall walked towards the stairs without paying much attention, about to take a picture of the ultrasound until a call came in.

"Horan here." He said changing to his professional tone of voice, the client started to speak when a thud sounded from the floor below. He stopped a few steps from the second floor.

If he had looked a little better, he would have noticed his legs lying on the floor below, but he was too distracted.

"Mr. Horan?" He listened on the other end of the phone, shook his head.

"I'm sorry, sir, I think someone fainted, but what were you saying?" He continued with his call, until he spotted Harry. "I'll call you back later, okay? I'm a little busy right now, Harry!"

The omega stopped and looked at the blonde running in his direction with a huge smile decorating his face, he smiled at him too, standing in the same place he was going.

"Curly, you have to see this!" He handed over the ultrasound and Harry took it between his fingers, admiring his little nephew on the paper.

"This is a huge baby, Niall!"

"Doesn't he have my eyes? Shawn is treating me like I'm crazy, but the Horan genes are powerful." He said with pride puffing out of his chest, Harry rolled his eyes in amusement.

"Of course, Niall," he answered not to make the alpha feel bad, he looked towards the door of Louis's office. "Send me a picture of the ultrasound, okay? I need to go with Louis."

"Of course, Curly." They said goodbye and parted ways..

Not knowing that just below them, the body of that guard lay on the ground, with his clothes stained with blood that came down from his mouth.

Harry and Louis

The curly man opened the door to his alpha's office without knocking, looked at him sitting behind his desk and smirked before going inside and closing the door behind him. Louis was writing some things in his notebook, Harry walked over and took a seat in the chair across the desk.

"Do you need help?" He looked curiously at some of the notes finding millions of dollars of money, Louis smiled and shook his head.

"Don't worry, bear, I know you don't like numbers." The omega smiled and leaned back in his chair, carefully watching Louis' movements.

"Lou, I think we should talk about..." He started, but two knocks on the door interrupted him.

The alpha looked at the source of the sound and frowned, Harry for his part got up and walked in the direction of it, taking out his pistol and removing the safety, with the intention of seeing who was on the other side, but Louis stopped him.

"Go away." He said in a whisper. Harry glared at him but kept the gun pointed in the direction of the door.

"Why? I'm just going to see who it is." He reached for his hand to the knob, but Louis quickly walked over to him and stopped him again.

"Did you hear?" He asked quietly, and Harry nodded.

"In the house there is a code to know who will enter the rooms," began one of the academy instructors, "always and without exception, knock three times." He hit his desk three times slowly, causing several of the bodyguards to be startled."

The omega's look changed, someone had entered the house.

"Go with River." Louis ordered again and Harry refused.

"I'm not going to leave you, if someone is knocking on the door of your office it's because they already have the entire first floor, I'm not going to risk something happening to you." He looked fearfully into his alpha's eyes, unconsciously returning to his attitude of when he was still his bodyguard. If I were to lose Louis, I couldn't go on living.

Two more loud bangs followed, Harry gave a little jump and looked at the door and then back at Louis.

"Please, Hazzie..." His voice trailed off between a whisper. He took Harry's hands in his and looked into his eyes. "Please, you have to go tell Liam what's going on, you have to go find River, make sure she's okay, do it for me, love."

He wiped a tear that fell down the curly's cheek and kissed his forehead.

"Go." They both walked to the bookcase that adorned a corner of the office, Louis pressed it hard and it opened.

"Wait, wait." He offered him his weapon, "I know you don't have one with you, you're going to need it to defend yourself." The blue-eyed smiled and walked over to his desk, then opened the bottom drawer where there were two black pistols, both with silencers. Harry smiled and looked at Louis.

"You need this to take care of our daughter, so go ahead." Harry nodded and entered the tunnel, slowly closing the door to avoid being overheard.

Louis for his part looked in the direction of the door again, picked up one of the pistols and started walking.

He sighed quietly and turned the knob.

"Father?"

Harry was stunned at Louis's words and ran outside, hoping that Niall's office hadn't been taken over yet. A shadow on the right side made him shudder and run towards the blonde's office.

He wasn't far away, but when he arrived and was about to open it, it was already too late.

"Who are you and what the fuck are you doing in my house?!"

He ran as he saw the same shadow he had left behind approaching in his direction.

Niall

A tall alpha with black hair already greying with age was standing in the doorway, a smirk on his face and arms folded across his chest.

"Niall Horan, it's a pleasure to finally meet that alpha who calls himself perfection, that he's so good with business." The man gloated, still with that hateful smile on his face, his brown eyes shining with cynicism. The Irish accent slipping off his tongue.

"What the hell are you doing here?" The alpha asked again, the man didn't even flinch.

"Oh, don't you want to talk about your parents? Amelie and Robert Horan, a really exemplary couple," he said carelessly, Horan froze, "But were they really that exemplary?"

No one ever mentioned that subject.

"What do you have to know about that? And who are you?" He tried to remain calm, settling into his chair to make himself look bigger and more intimidating.

"That doesn't really matter, but you can call me Richards," he announced, inching toward the office, his hands behind his back. "And what do I know? Oh, little Niall, I know more than you can imagine."

Niall thought the man was going to sit down, but instead he ran his finger across the surface of the chair's back, checking for dust, finally settling there.

"I remember that day perfectly, an unfortunate accident, don't you think? Surely you saw it on television, a poor couple who was going to pick up their little son from a sad camp," he began to recount, Niall had his full attention on him. "I remember seeing Amelie, you know, and she was the ugliest omega I've ever seen. I really wondered what your father, such a respected man in this business, could have set his mind to mate with her."

A growl left Niall's throat, and Richards laughed.

"Why are you mad, pal? She's already dead anyway," he said with mockery and a touch of contempt. "Was it an accident? Of course not, and I bet the news showed you the wrecked car, but not the flat tire."

Niall tried to remember, but his mind had erased all memory of that day as a defence mechanism.

"A flat tire, a bullet that would make the car run out of control." Richards leaned forward, gun in hand. "A bullet from this same gun you see here."

He took out a bullet and put it on the desk, Niall studied it from afar, and knew it was true when he saw that symbol.

The barely eleven-year-old boy was sitting on the floor of Kasper's office, going through those boring file cabinets in search of a sheet to draw on. He knew his father wouldn't scold him, he was the darling after all.

"Niall James Horan... That's me!" He read to him from a grey envelope that he pulled from the bottom drawer.

He opened it and the first thing he found was an adoption document, and instead of saying Horan, he was listed as Niall James Malik, which made him smile.

The second page was what made him drop the pages in shock. Photographs of his parents' accident, of the autopsies, and what most caught his attention; a symbol of a four-pointed star, with a bow above it.

"Niall, are you there?" He heard one of the guards and hurriedly put the folder away.

The guard opened the door, the little boy was standing next to the file cabinet with a small innocent smile, trying to hide that the air wasn't reaching his lungs correctly.

"What are you doing here, boy? Mr. Malik is going to get upset!" The guard sighed, although he knew it was a lie, nothing Niall did bothered the boss.

"I was looking for a sheet to draw on." He replied as normal as he could, although his voice came out a little shriller and girlier than usual. The older alpha sighed again.

"Okay. Now go to the dining room, it's time for dinner."

And the boy ran away, upset and with tears flooding his little blue eyes.

"And you won't believe it really was an accident," the older alpha scoffed, Niall looking at him in confusion.

"What are you talking about?"

"Oh, my dear Niall, did your father keep it from you?" The man laughed, playing with his pistol, enjoying Niall's confused expression. "Kasper Malik is your real father, you silly boy."

His soul fell at his feet, he felt the tears in his eyes and a huge weight settle on his chest. He felt that his life was a lie.

"You're lying." Growled the younger one, another laugh escaped the older's lips "You're lying you fucking son of a bitch!"

"What would I gain by lying to you, Niall?" Richards said, with a huge smile on his face, enjoying everything he was provoking in Niall. "You are the biological son of Kasper Malik and Amelie Horan, absolutely everyone knows that, and you, one of the heads of Icarus Rose didn't know? This is really amazing." He continued to sneer.

The alpha's gaze was lost somewhere on his desk, trying to distract his mind from the man in front of him.

"Well, let me tell you the tragic story of your parents," he sighed dramatically and spoke with an unpleasant tone. "Amelie, a poor omega who worked in a public library, met the great Kasper Malik, a millionaire mobster who promised her the sky and the stars, they fell deeply in love in less than a week and in an oversight, well, you came out." Niall was already flooded with tears, although more than pain he felt as if fire were burning him from the inside, what that unfortunate man was saying was not true, he could not be Kaspers baby. "Then Kasper left and Robert decided to take care of the used omega that was your mother and the bastard of a mob boss, why do you think your mommy didn't want to have another child with Robert?"

"Damn," Niall muttered between a snarl, he jumped up and pulled out his gun, smacking the wood of the desk with it. "Listen to me you fucking son of a bitch! My life may be a lie, but there are two things I'm One hundred percent sure of; first, Dean and Castiel were dating; second, you're not going to get me out of here unless I'm dragging your dead body, you fucking bastard."

The door to the secret passageway flew open, and two more men stepped out, beating Niall and grabbing one of each arm, dragging him out of his office.

"I told you, dragging your body is on my list now!" The alpha yelled before passing out.

Zayn.

The omega was still in his office, he was still trying to figure out why Niall's deliveries had been cancelled the day before, but he couldn't figure it out, it was too rare for deliveries of that size to be cancelled, but he decided to put it aside for a moment. It was almost the time he and Liam had agreed to go out with their puppies and he wouldn't let work ruin that little moment of happiness they would have.

"Isn't it lunchtime?" Said a voice from the hallway. Zayn looked up and managed to see how a man approached his office.

First, he observed how his shoes were staining the floor with blood, he raised his gaze a little higher, finding a completely plain black suit, leather gloves of the same colour that hid any trace of guilt, and a weapon pointed in the direction of the ground adorned his hands.

The omega looked into his eyes and his gaze hardened. He knew exactly who he was facing. He smiled and looked at the time on his watch.

"You are late." He looked at him again, "I've been listening to you for about three hours when you were parking your car," he brought his eyes to the window that overlooked the parking lot of the house.

"If we'd wanted to hide, we would have, but we're not afraid of you, we're the ones inside your house after all, right?" Zayn's jaw tightened and he reached for the panic button under his desk, this would send a signal to all the rooms of the house to alert that they were in danger, as well as the alarm would go on. Edmund looked at him carefully and moved a little closer to the desk, looking at every inch of the omega's office, all the photographs hanging on the walls, the filing cabinets full of valuable information for Icarus Rose and finally smiled. "It won't work, Malik." Zayn looked at him confused. "The panic button, I mean. We've cut the phone signal since last night and also the alarm system, not to mention of course, most of the guards protecting the entrances and exits are on our side.

"What do you want here, Edmund?" He asked, feeling disgusted to think that this man was Harry's father, how could such a loving and pure soul have been the product of that soulless and unscrupulous bastard?

"Watching Icarus Rose go down, like it must have been years ago when your daddy was killed by the Calders." Zayn's expression changed and Edmund laughed.

"Well, I think you'll have to wait many years before that happens, because as long as I'm here," he said and stood up, "Icarus Rose won't go anywhere and the only one who will fall for having the simple audacity to enter my house will..."

"Yes, yes, I know," he said, interrupting," save that speech for someone else, I don't have time."

The omega discreetly moved his foot to one of the floor tiles, at first glance it seemed to be part of the wood that adorned the floor, however, when pressed, it sent an electrical signal to important places in the house, causing a small light to start blinking.

Liam

Liam and Shawn were talking quietly, sitting in front of the little ones, River was lying on her animal rug and the twins were surrounding her, since they were so little they loved being around their little cousin.

"So you say that you saw a red stain on the wall in the entrance?" Liam stated after hearing everything Shawn saw when he got to the house.

"I can't be sure it's blood, but it's pretty suspicious..." The lights in the room began to glow a vibrant red, and Liam knew something was wrong. Shawn didn't know what it meant, but he could tell it wasn't a good thing. "Liam?"

"Shit." He muttered and got up immediately. "Grab the kids, wait here and if I'm not back in ten minutes, run away, got it?"

"But what does that mean?!" Shawn yelled, getting up to pick River up off the floor and sit with the twins.

"It's the second panic alarm, in case the first one doesn't work." He announced and Shawn blanched. "My omega is in trouble, don't move from here, Shawn."

And the alpha walked out the door, locking it from the inside, rushing downstairs to a horrible scene.

All the guards were dead, their corpses scattered all over the floor, I couldn't even see the thin old wood anymore, it was all blood and corpses. He ran towards Zayn's office.

"I'm going to watch them fall, Malik, one by one, you have taken everything I have, now it's my time to take revenge."

Zayn envisioned his alpha in the distance, but he hid the fact that they had company pretty well, looking at Edmund with boredom.

"And what makes you so sure of that, Styles?" Liam froze, was that man a Styles?

"Totally, I didn't even have a problem getting into your house, killing all your staff, do you think I'm going to have a problem putting a bullet in your head right now?"

"But you haven't, Edmund." The omega leaned back on the desk, with a cocky grin, but Liam could feel he was dying of fear. "What exactly is stopping you?"

"I want all your power," he answered smoothly, leaning back in the doorway. "Everything you have."

Zayn got up from his chair, making a sign to Liam, one the alpha understood perfectly, pretending he was combing his hair with only two fingers.

Run away immediately.

"And you think breaking into my house is going to make it," he sneered, walking towards the older alpha.

Liam was already crying, Zayn had already given him two clear signs that he had to get out of there, signs and phrases that they had agreed years ago meant, 'drop everything and run' but Liam couldn't leave without his omega. He needed to protect him.

And with a quick movement, Zayn hit Edmund against the door frame, immobilising him, and then punched him hard in the lower part of the jaw, leaving the figure of a rose marked on his face, and Edmund fell unconscious for a few minutes, enough to talk to his alpha.

He ran to Liam, letting all his worries spill out of him as the alpha wrapped his arms around him.

"Didn't you understand?! Get out of here, get out of here, Liam!" He yelled, pulling away from him.

"I'm not going to leave here without you, omega." The alpha whispered in a small voice, Zayn shook his head, his eyes brimming with tears.

"We're screwed, Liam. You need to go, take our kids away from here, and don't let anyone catch them, do you understand, you idiot alpha?" Zayn threatened him with tears streaming down his cheeks, Liam nodded ruefully.

"Zayn..."

"I love you, alpha, I love you like you don't have an idea, since you don't know when, and if I don't survive, I want you to know that you have always been and will be the love of my life, no matter which one we are in." He kissed her lips, without knowing if it would be the last time, they tasted salty because of the tears, but they were still just as soft as the first time, he hoped to remember the sweet taste they used to have and not the bitter and salty taste due to the tears and the goodbye that they didn't know with certainty if it was a see you later.

"I love you, and I'm going to rescue you from wherever they take you."

"Don't make promises you don't know if you're going to keep, alpha," the omega sobbed, squeezing the alpha's shoulders.

He jerked away, feeling the cold burn his bones from the distance he was putting up. They knew it was a painful goodbye until a miracle helped them out of that situation.

"Remember the necklace." He told him before turning around, Edmund was starting to wake up.

And Liam ran towards the playroom, leaving his heart behind him and feeling his soul break more with each step he took.

Zayn pulled out his gun, he wasn't going to let himself go without first fighting for this, for his family's legacy.

"You're a strong omega, I must admit," Edmund muttered, wiping the blood from his lip. "But enough was enough.

"Over my dead body." Zayn spat and fired, hitting the alpha in the shoulder.

"Enough!" He yelled using his alpha voice, Zayn froze, never before had an alpha try to use his voice on him.

And thanks to his stupid omega he managed to get him out of the house, with his eyes full of tears and feeling his dignity on the ground.

He could only hope for a miracle.

Harry

He kept running through the hallways, remembering the plans he had had to memorise for the entire house.

He needed to get to the playroom, he couldn't go wandering through the halls without getting caught. He stopped in front of what he thought was the wall that gave entrance to a false corridor through which he could access the game room. This was the only room that did not appear in the plans and which could not be accessed so easily through the secret passages, you had to access another passage that, at first glance, seemed like a normal corridor in the house.

The lights came on red, blinking every two seconds. The emergency alarm had been activated.

He pushed against the wall with all his might, feeling tears pool in his eyes and his hand burning from a scratch caused by the texture of the wall. He wiped the blood on his fine silk shirt so as not to leave a trace and finished opening the doorway. Everything seemed normal, only darker and dirtier, he could even see a few cobwebs.

He was in the right place.

He stepped into the hallway and quickly closed the wall behind him, careful not to make a sound to give away his location.

He surveyed the place and began to walk, counting each of his steps. "Twenty steps to the left, it's very important that you pay attention to the doors," they had been told at the academy. One, two, three, four... there were many false doors, opening most of them would show you nothing but bricks.

Fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen... he was about to open a door, but he remembered that it must be the one on the left.

He went to the other side of the hall and opened the door, pausing for a moment before going all the way inside.

The mark itched, Louis was afraid, and he was letting him know.

"Someone broke into the house, we must leave as soon as possible."

And he entered.

Louis

"But just look at this," Charles said as he walked into my office, brushing me aside like he always did.

"What are you doing here?" I asked with a serious voice, just seeing his face made me want to kill him.

"Isn't it obvious son?"

"Don't call me that, you have no right to do it!" I stopped in front of him and looked into his eyes, my alpha had started to growl. Charles laughed and shook his head.

"You're right, I buried my son years ago, you're a bastard," I wanted to hit him, I wanted to point my gun at him and shoot him in the forehead, but I couldn't.

I watched as Charles began to walk around my office, looking at all the documents on the shelves and analysing what he was doing. He still looked the same as when he took me out of his house, his critical gaze continued to haunt me as when I was little, and even though more than ten years had passed, I still felt small when I was with him.

"What do you want in my house?" I asked, trying to keep my voice from shaking. He stopped and looked at me.

"Me?" He laughed, "I don't want anything, well, I already have what I really want." He approached me slowly.

"And what is that?"

"You on a silver platter," he pulled the gun from him and pointed it at my head.

My eyes closed due to inertia, I couldn't think of anything other than Harry and River and how much they would suffer when they found me with a bullet in my skull. Charles laughed and walked away from me.

"You didn't even have the nerve to introduce me to my granddaughter," he said as he took a photo of River and Harry from my desk. "Don't think I don't know you see your mother from time to time." I clenched my jaw and swallowed, if he knew i see my mom he would probably do something to her or the girls.

"She's not your granddaughter." I said annoyed, River would never have to see him, he doesn't deserve it. My sweet girl doesn't deserve to meet someone as low as Charles Tomlinson.

"And what about your omega? Does he think the same?" I frowned in confusion, "because I'm sure when we find him..."

"If you go near them I swear I'll kill you."

"Please Louis, I think it's more than clear that we are the ones who have the upper hand in that, well, from what I understand we already have what you call "your brothers" and finding your sacred omega will not be difficult."

"If you touch them I'm going to rip your skin off with my teeth!" I moved closer until I was in front of him.

"I want to see you try," he smirked and didn't take his eyes off mine. My breathing was agitated and my heart was beating a thousand an hour. I had to think about Harry and River, I had to make sure that they would be okay, so I took a step back and lowered my gaze."

"Good boy, always so obedient... although we both know you don't have the balls to shoot your dear daddy."

"Take me, do whatever you want, but please leave my family alone, they haven't done anything." I said softly.

He had given me up.

"Are you begging me, Louis?"

I took a breath in and then sighed.

"Yes, yes I am Charles, so please, let's save this conversation and go wherever you have your dark cave." Charles laughed.

And for the first time, the three heads of Icarus Rose came out of the mansion with their heads lowered.

Defeated.

I guess they did fly very close to the sun after all.

They went down the steps at the front entrance and a black van was already waiting for them. Louis looked up to the side of the house and smiled.

September 13, 1995

Dear son:

I hope you can forgive me one day. You probably think that I did not love you from the beginning and that is why another alpha took care of you, raised you and gave you his last name, but I want you to know that it is the opposite, I love you and I have loved you from the moment I learned of your existence.

Your mother and I had one of the most beautiful stories of all time. With her I learned what love is, what they meant with all those stories that seem so fanciful about destiny, the famous "love of life"; but you know what? With her I also learned that sometimes there are loves destined to simply be remembered, to reach an end where each one takes different paths and simply longs to return to those yesterdays running through the streets of a small town, feeling the wind hit our faces and the sweat of our hands combine. Amelie is the love in my life, but unfortunately she is not the love of my life.

And believe me when I tell you that I wish I had you here with me, to have your mother next to me, to see you and Zayn run through the gardens and laugh at anything, to chase butterflies and cut my precious roses just for the fun of it, to be the united brothers that surely they would have been. Amelie and I met very late, I was already linked and she of course refused to stay by my side even in secret, she made it very clear to me that she did not intend to be seen as the boss's lover who doesn't care what have a marked omega and a son; and I respect her, I can even admit that I admire her a lot, and I hope that she instils that courage she had to face an alpha who in the eyes of the whole world is the most dangerous in you, that you grow up and be able to see in you the reflection of your mother, a strong man, determined and respected by everyone around him.

You're going to be a great man, my boy, just like your mother, just like Robert is, because I know he'll take good care of them for me. I hope you can forgive me, my son, and that you can look me in the eye and hold me tight the day I tell you the truth, that you can understand that I only wanted to respect the wish of the love of my life to stay away, to leave her alone and allow you to have a childhood out of this, out of perversion, blood and revenge.

I love you my Niall

Sincerely yours, Kasper Malik, your father.