A month later, Harry registered a lot of movement among the bodyguards, they didn't talk to him much, since he was beta, supposedly, so they tried to interact with him as little as possible.

He wasn't going to lie, it hurt him that they referred to him as the beta, as if that were a bad thing, and definitely if they discovered that he was an omega it would be worse, for them it was a shame that a beta was in such a high position considering that they were alphas. Stupid alphas who didn't see anything under their noses.

Harry was in his free time, because Niall had told him to rest, apparently they were going to make a delivery relatively far away and he needed him with all his energy, it was a good thing, because he needed to take his suppressants before the effect wore off and he began to stinking up the house with its strong odour, but just as he had the box of suppressants in his hands, someone knocked on the door. He hurriedly put the box back in his coat and opened the door, meeting Liam.

"Harry, mister Malik needs you now." He said with his usual neutral voice.

"I'll be there in a second, sir." He answered immediately, he couldn't go back to take his suppressants and soon everything would start to smell like him.

They walked to Zayn's office, Liam with a serious face and Harry quite nervous, praying that the effect would not wear off quickly and reach to take the pills as soon as he left Mr. Malik's office.

They entered the office and as soon as Malik saw him standing in front of his desk, Liam walked out of the office and closed the door behind him.

"Hello, Harry. How are you?" Zayn asked with a smile, he really liked the curly lad.

"I'm pretty good, Sir. And you? I was told that you wanted to talk to me,sir."

Harry put his hands in the pockets of his coat and something fell out of it, a white box with blue letters, Zayn looked at the pills, and then at Harry, who was already beginning to give off a soft smell of cinnamon and fruits. Zayn raised both eyebrows and smiled.

"Harry, what is this?"

"Nothing, sir, that's my..." And before he could say anything else, or pick up the box, Zayn motioned for him to stop and picked it up from the floor.

He looked at the box carefully, he was more than familiar with the suppressors and those definitely were. But he had to act surprised, because Harry must not know that he had been aware that he was an omega for a long time before he met him. He brought his eyes up to the 'beta's' without saying anything and he spoke with panic in his voice.

"Sir, I can explain this, but please, I need the job to help my mother and sister. I am the only one that can help them, please..."

"Harry, please be quiet." Zayn interrupted, Harry shut up automatically, the other man thought for a moment before returning the box to the bodyguard.

"Finally." To Harry's surprise, his boss breathed a sigh of relief. He started to loosen his scarf, revealing a mark on his neck, and Harry couldn't be more confused. "Another omega in the house, I was tired of being surrounded by so many asshole alphas all day, aren't you too?"

"S- Sir?" Harry asked confused, Zayn still smells like an alpha, but he had the mark that was clearly given by an alpha to an omega.

"Yes yes, I know, I smell like an alpha, I look like one, but I'm marked, do you know how tiring it is to be covered up all day so they don't know I'm a great omega? And then the idiots of Louis and Niall, 'you can't let Harry know it too, he's new', pure bullshit with those stupid animals."

"You... You are an omega?"

"It's kind of obvious. But please, sit down, I haven't talked with someone like me for so long." Zayn motioned for him to sit down and Harry obeyed.

"You won't fire me?" He asked, with a scared voice.

"Of course not, Harry, and tell me about yourself, we're the same, and I like you. Now tell me, how did you manage to hide it for so long? Ah, that's why Louis keeps talking about you, right? I already said that there was something special in you. I knew it since I saw you in that bar."

"Thank you so mu..." The door was flung open, and Liam's head appeared.

"I smelled someone nervous, is everything alright?" He asked, worried.

"Yes, everything is alright love, now go, we're having an omega to omega conversation."

"Omega to omega?" He looked at Harry and when he paid attention, he understood everything, he looked back at his omega. "Zayn?"

"I told you." He said with a smile. "He's too pretty to be a beta, no offence to betas. And I don't want you to say a single word about this, Liam, I'm warning you, or you'll sleep on the couch for a week."

Liam leaned in to give Zayn a quick kiss and pulled back, leaving them alone.

"Well, getting on with this. I'm not firing you, Harry, don't worry. But you have to tell Niall and Louis, don't worry about them, they'll understand. Now take your pill before someone else comes in, you smell a lot and very sweet, those irrational and stupid alphas won't be long in coming to see who is the person that gives off that smell."

Harry took the pill, under the attentive eyes of his boss. He was relieved that it wasn't going to cost him his job.

"Now tell me why you didn't tell..."

A second interruption came, blue-eyed and brown-haired, with several sheets in his hands and a worried expression.

"Zayn, there are now five boxes missing." He said hastily, but as soon as his gaze settled on her bare neck and the curly-haired guy that was in the room with him, he paled. "What do you think you're doing? Cover your neck, idiot."

"Harry already knows." Said the other omega, relaxed, he looked at Harry and how he was staring at the blue-eyed alpha, he smiled mischievously. "In fact, Harry has some valuable information that he gleaned from the guards, so why don't you take him to Niall and let him tell you what he knows?"

Harry looked back at Zayn, eyes wide, Zayn winked at him and kicked them out of his office.

"Hey, Zayn's office smelled good." Louis pointed out, and Harry blushed knowing it was because of him.

"Yes..." He replied, a little bit uncomfortable .

"Did you have something to say? Did you notice something strange?" Louis asked, his tone surprisingly softer than expected, he tucked all the papers he was carrying under one arm and brought the other to Harry's waist indicating that he should continue walking down the hall.

"Yes, a few days ago I saw that one of the guards was talking on the phone, very hidden. As soon as he saw me he hung up immediately and continued as if nothing had happened. Apparently he doesn't speak to any of the other guards and is a little bit rude."

"What is his name?" Louis asked with curiosity

"I think that his last name is Brown." He answered, and before they could say anything else, Niall came running towards them.

"Come on Harry, I looked for you in your room and you weren't there, we must leave now." The blond man announced, breathing heavily.

"Well, see you later, Louis." Harry said goodbye to the chestnut-haired alpha, who hadn't let go of his waist in all that time.

"See you later, Harry," He kissed his cheek and walked away, leaving Harry with the Irishman.

"So Louis, huh?" Niall whispered teasingly, Harry blushed and nudged him lightly, gaining a small chuckle from the blond. Harry shook his head and walked to Niall's side ignoring his questions "Come on curly, I had to threaten you to call me Niall and you call Louis by his name from the bottom of your heart? Also, don't think I didn't see where his hand was."

"It was a mistake, one that won't happen again."

"I already heard the gossip that you left his office very late the other night." Harry looked at him blushing.

"What are you talking about?"

"Please Harry, you're talking to one crown of the most powerful mafias in the UK, I'm the first to know what's going on here." Niall smiled flirtatiously at him. "I also saw you on the security cameras."

"We were just talking, Mr. Tomlinson and I have a professional relationship." Harry clarified. Niall let out a laugh.

"Mr. Tomlinson and I have a professional relationship. " he repeated in a mischievous voice and then burst out laughing. Harry ignored him and they both headed out of the house towards the car.

☺☻☺☻

The streets of London were full of cars, and the sun was at its highest point. Harry drove as fast as he could because of the traffic, Niall kept teasing Harry with Louis but he just ignored him thinking all alphas were the same at the end of the day.

"Can we get something to eat?" Niall asked as he swung his legs up onto the dashboard of the car.

"We're five minutes away from where we're going, we can get something on the way back." Harry answered without taking his eyes off the road.

"Curly, I never thought I'd have to do this with you but you leave me no other option." He sat back in his seat and looked him straight in the eyes "I'm ordering you to get to a place to buy food."

Harry looked at him with a raised eyebrow and smiled.

"As you order, Mr. Horan," he said sarcastically. Niall looked at him and opened his mouth to speak but no words escaped his lips. Harry for his part just smiled and sped up a bit.

They arrived at a cafeteria and both got out to order something to eat, after having the order they returned to the car and Harry moved until they reached Wembley, where they would meet a man to whom Niall would deliver an order of weapons.

"All right, we're going to meet the man in one of these alleys, you can wait in the car, there's no danger and he prefers to keep his identity a secret." Harry nodded and stopped the car at the corner of an alley.

Niall got out of the car and walked to the back seat, from which he took a black bag with the weapons and walked to the place. Harry had parked the car so that he could keep an eye on Niall and stay away at the same time.

"Mr. Horan." Greeted the man when he saw that the blond man was approaching him. "How are you?"

"Everything is in order, it's a pleasure to see you again." They both shook their hands and smiled without emotion "Okay, I know you like to be direct so here's what you asked for, do you have the money?" The man took an envelope out of his coat and handed it to Niall, who at the same time handed him the bag.

Harry checked the time on his phone and reckoned they'd be home soon if Niall didn't ask to stop somewhere else, which was pretty common for him. He directed his gaze to the window to make sure everything was in order, he could see Niall's back and an older man in front of him. He was wearing a black suit and was a little shorter than Niall, he had white hair and his face looked strangely familiar. He looked like his father, and although Harry hadn't seen his father in many years he still remembered his face perfectly. The face of rejection.

"Okay, let's see." The man opened the bag and looked at its contents. Making sure everything was in order, he closed the bag again and looked at Niall. "My boss asked me to give you this list for the next order." The man put his hand in his pants pocket and took out a small sheet, but a plastic bag fell out next to it. Niall bent down to pick it up and looked at the initials on it, they were printed on it.

KC. read in his mind. The man handed him the list and Niall nodded.

"Do you need this bag?" He asked and the man denied

"No, I was about to throw it away, it's from a delivery I made a while ago." Niall smiled and put the small bag in his coat

"Alright, that's all for today, I hope you have a good day." They both shook hands and Niall walked back to the car with Harry.

His face had turned serious. Harry looked at him before starting the car and noticed that something had happened.

"Everything okay?" He asked and Niall started counting the bills inside the envelope.

"Yes, just... We have to go to the house now. " He said worriedly.

"Okay." Harry started to drive back and neither of them said a word for the entire ride.

They arrived at the house in less time than expected, because strangely, Niall did not ask to go for food as was always, and without giving him time to ask anything, he guided Harry towards Zayn's office.

"We've got a problem." He said as he stormed into the office, finding Zayn and Liam in a situation he would prefer not to have seen "Wow, am I interrupting something?" He asked mockingly, and Liam growled at him before he burst out laughing.

"Why don't you knock before storming into somewhere?" Zayn said as he fixed his clothes and seated in this chair.

"We've got a problem." Repeated Niall, going back to the serious face he had before. "The man I handed the order to threw this away."

He put the small bag on Zayn's desk, and Zayn glared at it.

"Why did you come to put garbage on my desk? For God's sake, Niall, you need to stop being so childish."

"You don't get it." He took the bag and approached the bag to Zayn's face, gaining another growl from Liam. "Stop it Liam, you sound like a dog. Look at the initials printed there, aren't they familiar to you?"

Zayn read the initials on the bag, sinking into his chair thoughtfully. Liam snatched the bag from him and looked at it too.

"What is happening?" Harry asked, confused.

"Get Louis right now. This is very, very bad."

Harry nodded and ran from the office to Louis', up the stairs and turning right as usual, stopping at the second door.

"Louis." he said as soon as his knuckles touched the wood, the named opened the door and saw a quite confused Harry. "Zayn need's you in his office, he says it's an emergency."

He arrived at the office and when he entered the room, he knew it was something more important than that.

"Louis." Zayn called, his voice was dark and preoccupied.

Niall handed him the bag with the initials on it, and as soon as he read it, he knew they were in trouble.

"We need to send someone to collect some information." Zayn announced. "Niall, can you arrange a small delivery with these people? Don't let them know it's us behind this, please."

"What are you planning?" Louis asked, confused, he thought his friend would be more affected by the situation.

"We are going to kidnap someone, my dearest Lou. We need information about these people, who they are and what they want." Louis didn't look too convinced but nodded. "Harry, you will do the delivery, they already know Niall, and they could catch us. On the other hand, you are new, and they have no idea that you work for us."

"Yes, sir." Said Harry as he nodded.

"What?" Louis shouted, not believing what he just heard. "You are going to send Harry? With all the risks this implies?"

"Yes." Zayn said coldly "He is our only option."

"No no no no no and no, I am not okay with this." Louis answered and Zayn rolled his eyes.

"Useless alpha, you know what I think of you disagreeing? That I don't care, Harry is going whether you like it or not, because we have no choice, and I'm not going to argue with you or the animal instincts you've developed towards Harry, do you understand? Now back off, I need to think about what we're going to do. Harry, rest. Niall, as soon as possible, please."

Harry was silent, with his eyes fixed on the floor and left the office towards his room. This was going to be his first solo mission and he couldn't do anything wrong. As soon as he was in his room, he went to the bathroom to take a shower, and thought about what he should do.

☺☻☺☻ Louis ☺☻☺☻

I left the office upset, I didn't know why Zayn had to behave that way, animal instincts you've developed towards Harry, I haven't developed any animal instincts towards anyone, I don't know what the hell he was talking about. I sighed and headed to my office to finish the things I was doing earlier.

How was it that Harry would go on the mission? He clearly knows nothing about drug or gun sales let alone alpha essence, what was he going to do? Would you nicely ask them to get into the van and put the blindfold on? Of course not. Harry wasn't going to that place, I wouldn't let him.

I left my office and walked to Niall's, he was a few doors from mine so it didn't take me long to get there. I opened the door without knocking and found him in front of his computer behind the desk.

"Louis, do you need something?" He asked with a frown.

"Harry won't go, how will he do that?" I asked angrily.

"Louis, don't ..."

"No, don't interrupt me, I'm being serious" I closed the door behind my back and sat in front of him. "I'll do it, Harry has no experience on this."

"Neither do you. You don't have experience in that, you weren't a dealer even on your time outside the house" Replied Niall as he stood up.

"But what is Harry going to do? He has the face of an angel who goes to church every Sunday, they won't sell him drugs and he doesn't look like a dealer." Niall bursted out laughing.

"Well, then..." he opened the door and walked outside. I frowned and stood up to follow him.

"Where are you going, you stupid Irish man?" He looked at me offended and continued walking to the third floor. That was where the rooms of the employees of the house were located, we never came to this floor.

"If you are going to be the one that goes to that place, you should be the one to inform him that he is no longer going." He said and knocked the door in front of us three times and ran towards the stairs.

"You son of a b..." Before I could finish the word, Harry opened the door. I looked into his surprised eyes, his hair was wet and fell over his shoulders, which were uncovered and showed his tattoos; he had a white towel wrapped around his waist and in his hand was a small bottle of shaving cream.

"Louis, what are you doing here?" He asked me, confused. I swallowed a little nervous at the situation in which I had found him.

"I... I came to tell you that I am going to the mission, you don't... don't have to go." Harry smiled and raised his eyebrows.

"Mr. Malik was very clear with his orders" Having said that he tried to close the door and turned around, but I was able to stop him before, and I entered her room. I had never been there before, it was much smaller than mine although it had the same style in terms of decorations.

"I am also your boss and I am telling you that I will be the one to go." He looked at me somewhat surprised to be standing in front of his bathroom door but shook his head and looked at himself in the mirror.

"Mr. Tomlinson, I think we are both aware that Mr. Malik has more jurisdiction than you, in this case."

"I am not asking you if you want me to go or not." I said seriously. "I am telling you I'll be the one going and will do everything that is necessary, I am the alpha after all."

Harry let out a laugh that I had never heard before, it was like music to my ears, I wanted to keep hearing him laugh that way. But it was a serious moment, so I frowned and looked at him.

"And because you are an alpha I am supposed to do as you say?" He stood in front of me with a clenched jaw. "Because I strongly disagree and I also don't like when alphas talk that way, like the rest of us are just left overs, not strong enough... like we are trash." His gaze had turned dark, he no longer looked like the little Harry I had known, now you could even say he looked like an alpha and was trying to intimidate me. He was right though.

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to say it that way." there was something in his green eyes that calmed me down "But my decision is the same, I'll be the one..."

"Yes, and what are you going to do?" He asked with a strong voice "I understand that you haven't been on any missions in a long time, and among many of the stories that Niall tells me I remember that he mentioned something about you preferring to take care of business from inside the house."

"You know nothing about me, Styles." His words had begun to annoy me. Who did he think he was to talk to me like that?

"But I know enough to realise that you never carry a gun with you, and that you only go out of the house to the gardens or when it's totally needed for you to be somewhere. "

"You want me to thank you for doing your job?" I couldn't help but feel annoyed and he could probably smell it in the air.

"Not exactly, I just want you to know that I will be following Mr. Malik's orders and that you will not be attending the mission simply because you have no experience in the field."

"I was trained, Styles, just like you. And I am feeling like you are underestimating my abilities."

"Tell me, Mr. Tomlinson." He walked towards me. "What would you do if someone had a gun pointing to your head?" Saying that, he took out his gun from one of the drawers in the bathroom and pointed it at my forehead. I felt the cold metal right between my eyebrows. "What will you do? I'm assuming you're going to growl like alphas do, or if he's an omega you're going to use your alpha voice to make them leave you alone, am I wrong?"

I kept my eyes on him, I wasn't going to let him intimidate me, he was a beta and didn't have any kind of power, he was a simple bodyguard who had too much ego.

"Mr. Styles, I'm going to ask you to take this gun off my forehead right now." I said seriously. His facial expression changed from one moment to another, he lowered the gun and looked at the ground. I had used my alpha voice without realising.

"Sorry." He apologised and swallowed before taking a few steps back. A scent began to appear in the small room, it was sweet and similar to the one in Zayn's office, it was probably some new scented candle they used throughout the house.

"What do you think if we both go?" I offered it as a fair option. "This way, we both gain that experience that we lack and it helps that you don't go alone." Harry looked up and nodded.

"Sounds good to me." I took a few steps until I was in front of him and put my hand on his shoulder.

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to use my alpha voice, I don't know what happened to me." I spoke softly and he shook his head.

"It's okay, It's in your nature. And I overstepped." I moved my arm behind his back and closed the distance between us with a hug. Something inside me told me that was what I needed to do. Harry smelled quite mild, it was fruity but also sweet like cinnamon.

"Curly, are you..." Niall walked into the room but stopped in front of the bathroom door. I quickly moved, stepped away from Harry and turned around. "Am I interrupting something? Why is it always me that walks into these kinds of situations?"

"No, no you're not. I was leaving." I said and left the bathroom. Harry didn't move and Niall looked at him with a frown.

"Okay... I was going to ask you if you were ready, but I can see that you are not, so I'll wait for you in Zayn's office." Harry nodded and Niall walked to me.

"So, you and curly?" A playful smile appeared on his face and I rolled my eyes.

"I'm gonna murder you Niall, with my damn bare hands." I said and left the room.

"What is it now?" He walked behind me. "If I hadn't left you two alone, I wouldn't have found you all huggy snuggy with him in that bathroom."

I looked into his eyes with a frown and he started walking in the opposite direction.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry." He exclaimed as he ran down the stairs.