☺☻☺☻ Niall ☺☻☺☻

I woke up early to go for a run with the dogs,and on my way I checked that everyone was doing their job. An hour later I'm back at home to get a shower.

As I approached the hallway where my room was, I saw a curly headed man coming out of Louis's room. I hid behind the wall and saw him go to the stairs that led to the third floor. Was he? Did they...? Nope, it couldn't be. I ran to Zayn's office and stormed in without knocking, earning a look from disapproval on his part.

"Niall, I have already told you many times to..."

"Shut up and check the damn security cameras."

"Is there any reason for why you want me to check the cameras?" He asked, I rolled my eyes and took his computer to check the video myself.

"I saw Curly leaving Louis' room" I said, and Zayn looked directly at the screen. "Here." I screamed as I found the recordings from last night, where Harry was seen entering my friends room. I skipped the video until the hour where I saw Harry leaving Louis' room. And yes, Harry had effectively spent the night with Louis.

"Did you see what I did?" Zayn asked. "Well, Harry is an omega and Louis is his alpha, is it normal for them to spend the night together. After all, Harry..." He went silent. I looked at him with my eyes full of surprise, and he looked like he noticed. "I wasn't supposed to tell you that."

"Harry is an omega? I knew curly was hiding something."

"He told me the other day, but I told him to tell you and Louis. I guessed that he had already done that by this time."

"He hasn't said a word about that. But that's not a problem, he will tell me when he's ready." I walked to the door and looked at him. "I'm going to take a shower, I have to go to a delivery. See you later."

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A few hours later, Harry and I headed to a hotel in town where we were supposed to meet up with

an associate of Zayn's for a gun drop and after that we were supposed to go see something about

one of the companies we are affiliated with, as there seemed to be a problem

with the money, and now that I think about it, it would have been helpful to bring Louis today.

"Are you okay?" Harry asked me, concerned. "You haven't said a word in all this time, and don't get me wrong, but you never shut up." I looked at him, like he had offended me.

"I beg your pardon? Let me remind you that I am still your boss" I said with a fake serious voice, but as soon as I saw Harry's fear in his eyes I started laughing. "I'm just playing, Curly." I gave him a little bump on the knee.

"Ouch!" he complained. I look at him with surprise.

"Oh hell no!" I laughed. "I saw you leaving Louis' room, but I didn't imagine that... Well, I was trying to give you the benefit of the doubt."

"What are you talking about?" He frowned with confusion.

"You know... You and Lou." I did a sign with my hands and Harry fastly started to move his head in denial.

"No! We just talked, mister Tomlinson is my boss, I couldn't... That would be unprofessional." He said with some nervousness in his voice and all I could do was laugh.

"Curly, you are funny when something makes you nervous, but don't worry, your secret is safe with me..." I did a small pause and a cruel smile appeared in my face, "and Zayn"

"Does mister Malik really know?"

"Don't worry, be calm. By this point Liam must also know."

Harry made a quick movement in the car to avoid colliding with the car in front, as he had

stopped paying attention to the road. I let out a laugh.

The rest of the ride was silent, Harry was read as a tomato and I was thinking of the many ways I would be able to bother Louis with this.

☺☻☺☻ Louis ☺☻☺☻

I went out of my office just to hand some documents to Zayn, some daily money reports. I said hi to Liam, who was standing outside the office and walked in.

"Here is the report, later in the evening when Niall arrives I will send you the other one." I left the documents on his desk. Zayn had a suspicious smile on his face and I stared at him confused. "What?"

"Nothing, just smiling at you." He said, happy. I rolled my eyes and turned to leave the room, but there I remembered the conversation I had with Harry.

"Hey, I'll go with Harry to his mother's place. We'll be back on Sunday." I said and Zayn opened his eyes with surprise.

"Really? Well, I didn't think your relationship was that serious."

"Relationship? What the hell are you talking about? You do talk nonsense sometimes"

"I saw Harry leaving your room this morning, and we'll, I thought... He already invited you to meet his mother, but I am no one to judge."

"No, no, no, no. I think you are misreading the situation, Harry and I aren't in a relationship. I am just going to give him some company, yesterday I spoke with his mother and she said that he hasn't been home in months and..."

"You spoke with his mother?" He interrupted me.

"Yes? " Now I really was confused, "but that's not the point, Zayn, I was just letting you know that me and Harry will be absent for a few days. I wasn't asking for permission."

"Okay, okay." I opened the door and started to walk out. "Don't forget the protection!" He shouted and all the guards stared at me. Liam frowned and entered the room.

"Nothing to see here." I said and they went back to their jobs.

The night had arrived and Zayn was ready to go out, he was wearing a black suit with gold details that made him show more power. That night he and Liam were going to a business meeting, with a mafia associate and some other alphas that Zayn planned to affiliate with, they were chiefs of small businesses that were mainly involved in trafficking omegas and drugs, but Zayn was only looking for them to join him so he could have more control over them.

"Here is your tea, Darling." Liam said as he entered the omega's room. Zayn walked to where he was and took the silver tray to place it on his desk.

"This is the only thing that I don't like." He said with a little sorrow. Liam hugged him and left a small kiss on his head.

"The effect will vanish within the hours, don't worry about that." Zayn raised his head a little and with a smile he gave his alpha a small kiss on the lips.

"Before I start to stink like an alpha." He said and they both laughed.

Since he was little, he had begun to drink alpha essence diluted in tea, that was for the essence not to be so strong that it molested him, and for Zayn not to feel dizzy due to the change of aroma.

That night he had drunk a double dose to look more imposing at the alfas with whom he would gather, for him it was like an intoxicating smell that caused him a slight headache, but for others, it was the smell of power and superiority and it made everyone feel intimidated with his presence. Both left the house and hopped into one of Zayn's luxury cars. They arrived in approximately half an hour to the place, it was a luxurious hotel with a big casino that was usually attended by people with a lot of money and power. The alpha stopped the car at the entrance of the building. He walked to the co-driver's door and opened it, helping Zayn to get out of the car.

"We will go in and out probably, I don't think that there is going to be much new things today." Said the omega as he approached the door " they are all stupid alphas that know nothing about businesses and think that they have all the money of the world. "

"So you'll drink tonight?" Liam asked, totally ignoring what Zayn just said.

"Yes, I will, and please don't growl at the people, it's embarrassing." Liam laughed and gave Zayn a little pinch on his forearm, he frowned at him and walked faster.

"Good evening gentlemen, do you have a reservation?" Asked an alpha that worked there. Zayn took a card and handed it to him.

"Icarus Rose, don't worry it's on your list." The man swallowed hard and nodded as he started to type something on his computer. Then he showed them to follow him to the lift.

"The casino is on the first floor, an omega will show where mister Baldwin is." They both nodded and Liam pressed the button to close the door.

"You almost made him piss his pants." Liam mocked.

"What did you want? Did you want me to tell him 'Oh big and strong alpha, take me and my handsome bodyguard to our business meeting." Liam laughed and moved his head.

"You forgot super strong." Zayn bursted out laughing and gave him a kiss.

"My super strong and handsome bodyguard." Liam smiled and the door opened.

They got out of the lift and walked to the entrance of the casino, where, as they had been indicated, an omega guided them to a private room where there were five alphas sitting around a table, beautiful omegas in quite revealing dresses were trying to seduce the alphas at their sides, who in turn talked about trivial things while drinking huge amounts of alcohol.

"Malik!" One of them shouted with excitement, jumping off his seat to greet him. "I thought you would never show up."

"You know I wouldn't let you down, Baldwin." they shared a hand shake and walked to where the other alphas were waiting.

"Gentlemen, this is mister Malik, you might be familiar with his job already, he is the boss of Icarus Rose." Zayn took a seat in the only free place and an omega approached instantly.

"Good evening gentlemen." Zayn said and Liam clenched his jaw.

"So you are the famous 'Mister Malik', the one who everyone fears." One of the men commented.

"The one and only. I'm glad to leave that impression on the people I work with." He replied to the man, who smiled.

"Gentlemen, would any of you like something to drink?" Asked an omega who was dressed in a tiny black dress and a white apron.

"Bring us all a round of drinks, and make them strong, so that Malik reaches our level." Baldwin ordered, and the omega went fastly to the bar.

The omega that had approached Zayn started moving her hand up and down his arm, trying to draw his attention, but Zayn ignored her completely, keeping his face fixed on the alpha's in front of him, he could feel through the bond that Liam was upset for the actions of the omega, but it was something normal in him.

"Mister Malik," called one of the men who were sitting on his right side. "I know this might sound a little odd. But, do you think that you could explain to me a little more about what you do in Icarus Rose?"

"Of course, our most produced product is the alpha essence, because that is the business that my father started and also the most requested one. In addition to selling guns, drugs..."

"Omegas." One alpha added "I heard you buy and sell omegas."

"No, we don't deal with omegas." He said with a serious face. The man looked at him with surprise.

"Really? I thought an alpha like you would do it, but it doesn't matter, the omegas are useless." Before he could reply to the man's comment, the omega that had taken their order before came back with the drinks. Zayn nodded his thanks and glanced sideways at Liam, who kept his gaze fixed angrily on the alpha's face.

"I think it is already time to start, gentlemen." Baldwin announced and a beta approached the

table with a cart. He dealt the cards and they all played poker in a friendly way.

"Are we here just to see Malik win against us all or are we going to talk about businesses?"

"Of course we will talk business." Zayn replied fastly, with some anger in his tone. "Payne, bring the briefcases."

The alpha left the place and went to look for the briefcases, which were on the car's back seat and walked back.

"Here they are, Sir." Zayn smiled at him, making sure no one saw the gesture.

"As you might know, my mafia is about family, and I would like for you to become part of it " he started. "We can be associated and share incomes, it would be a benefit for us both plus you would have the security that my bodyguards provide us with."

"And what if we don't want to join your little alpha circus?" One of the alpha's questioned, with superiority imprinted on his face. Zayn looked at him up and down, and smiled.

"I believe that if you have that opinion about being in my 'little alpha circus' I wouldn't be necessary, I can assure you that who needs this alliance the most is not us." One of the alphas laughed.

"He kicked your ass Lincoln." The mentioned looked at him furiously.

"What do you think about starting the real bets?" He said angrily. "We are here for that, aren't we?"

Liam took that as a sign and walked over to the table to pull out the rings that were in the briefcase, each one was custom made for the alphas sitting at the table and had a rose engraved on them. In the mafia there were ranks and each member had a ring that showed the position in which they were, Zayn had the highest rank, it was a silver ring with a rose made from diamonds, that ring was not the most common one, and people knew that it showed power; the rings worn by his associates had less details, they were simple rings but at the same time had a lot of authoritarian value.

Everyone at the table knew exactly what Zayn meant by 'start with the real bets'. There was a game that had been created by the biggest mafia crowns in Italy many years ago, and the rules were simple for those involved in the game business, but for those who had no idea how to play it seemed irrelevant to bet all your belongings in a game of chance.

It is a card game that the biggest mafias meet once a year to play, this is called 'all or nothing'. The game consists of everyone playing one round in a friendly way, but after there is a loser, they start making big bets, such as the merchandise of their own mafias, unusual products, precious diamonds, properties, drugs, exorbitant amounts of money, people, usually omegas, among others; on the second round the cards are dealt and the former loser has the choice to say 'all' if he has a very good hand, or 'nothing' if he considers his hand to be no good. Once the old loser makes his decision, he shows his cards to the other players, after that, players reveal their cards. In case the former loser had a loser hand, every one of his belongings is taken away; he is left on the street and everything is lost the honour and respect of him the other mafias, distributing his belongings among the others players; but if the former loser has a good hand that is considered a winner, he is the one who keeps the items that were staked. This game is played only once, after that everyone starts making lower range bets like money and drugs, and continues to play as if nothing had happened.

"Okay, gentlemen it is time for an all or nothing round." Spoke the beta once again. "You know the rules, first you will play a friendly round and the loser goes for everything or nothing. "With the rules clear, he started to deal the cards, the atmosphere started to feel tense and anxious, the alpha's even stopped drinking so they could focus on the game.

They played for around five minutes, until Zayn was declared the winner. The alphas called their people so they placed the bets on the table.

Baldwin offered ten omegas along with various illegal weapons; another alpha offered a beautiful diamond that he had extracted from one of the mines that he owned; the other two alphas offered what same, drugs; and finally Lincoln offered his precious jewellery company, usually diamonds valued at millions of euros. Zayn, for his part, offered a new liquid that he had started working on, was similar to the alpha essence they trafficked, but this was more like an omega essence, its aroma was sweet and caused anyone who consumed it to obtain a different scent, a more concentrated one, of course it was something he was patenting and that hasn't been finished yet, but it had a lot to offer and the alphas at the table were interested.

"Well gentlemen, it's time for the real all or nothing." The beta said again. " Mister Lincoln, you were the loser in the friendly round so you have to say. All or nothing?"

The alpha grunted at the beta's words, but he ignored it and dealt the cards again. The rules said that they couldn't be revealed until the loser made the decision for him, so everyone looked at him expectantly.

"Mister Lincoln, you can now reveal your cards." The alpha did as told and saw the cards that he was given, shivers ran down his back and everyone started to notice the nervousness in his scent. "Sir, all or nothing?"

"All, I have the best hand in the game." He mocked and showed his cards to everyone else , revealing that, in effect, he had a good hand that round. But it wasn't impossible to get a better one.

"Gentlemen, you may now reveal your cards." everyone did as the beta said, and stared at the cards before noticing that, once again, Zayn had won.

"This is bullshit!" Lincoln yelled, throwing his cards to the air.

"Sir, I am going to have to ask you to please be calm." The beta asked, only gaining a loud growl from the alpha.

"Everyone here are some big damn stupid people!" His rage became far more noticeable when he looked at Zayn with his smile, bragging that he had won the game again. He stood up and he spoke. "And you!" He pointed at him. "Oh! You are the most deplorable thing that has ever existed on this planet."

"Mister Lincoln, I am in need to ask you to please sit back down." Liam said this time as he took a few steps forward and brought his hand up to the gun he wore on his belt and he placed the other one on Zayn's shoulder.

"What are you going to do if I don't?" He said, trying to sound intimidating, Liam smiled but it was Zayn who answered the question.

"I have no idea about what could be the reason for you to feel like you have so much power, mister Lincoln." He mocked. "I can assure you that my bodyguard has more power than you ever did."

"Shut your mouth." He murmured. "You are just a child who took advantage of the death of his father to take all of the power, but without this you are just another useless and weak alpha."

"Lincoln, don't talk like that to mister Malik. Not now that you just lost it all to him." One of the other alpha's suggested.

"This dumbass means nothing to me and has no power." He stepped towards Zayn, showing menace in the process. Liam moved to be in between the two men, holding the alpha by the collar of his shirt. "Let go! You useless dog!"

"Sir, I'm going to ask you a second time to please return to your place." Liam asked kindly,

but the alpha mocked him and spat in his face. Liam stepped away from him and Zayn stood up, he walked quickly to a table and grabbed a napkin.

"I'm going to tell you a story since we've lost the formalities." He spoke while walking back to the table and handed Liam the napkin so he could wipe his face. "Years ago, there was a man, just like you. He was a bloodthirsty man who thought he had everything in the palm of his hand, there was no one with higher power and no one had the right to call his name." He stopped once he was standing in front of him. "But one day, another man came, he had more money, more land, more power in his hands than he could have imagined." He smiled. "And said 'sir, I hope we can have a pleasant conversation about our kingdoms', but the man refused to look at him, assuring that no one was worthy of even looking him in the eye, but the other man was not interested and he continued talking and talking about things they could do together."

"And why the hell would that story be of my interest?" He interrupted.

"Well, this should be from your interest because the man offered him a deal, which he clearly refused, but he gave him another chance, told him that he would let him think things through, and do you know what he did?"

"What?" He asked with anger.

"He took away all his belongings when no one was looking, since the man was blinded with all of his pride, he did not realise that he was losing the only opportunity to continue living. And that, my dear friend, is what just happened to you." Zayn said proudly in his face, the alpha took him by the shirt and lifted him a little, but Liam separated him from a push making him fall to the ground.

"Will you go crying to your omega?" Zayn mocked. "Will you tell her that an excellent and powerful mafia boss left you on the streets?"

The alpha got up from the ground and threw himself at Zayn, Liam grabbed him by the arm and threw him to the ground face down, then hovered over him to hold him in place.

"Look at you. What kind of alpha are you?" He mocked again, "bragging about all of your things and now you are on the floor, you really should think twice before messing with someone that is feared by everyone."

"You are an idiot." He blurted out. "You don't deserve a single penny of all of this power, you and your little empire will go down one of these days, you will see."

"Liam." He called, the alpha looked at him and knew what he had to do.

He took his gun and shot him in the head, nobody said a single word about it.

"Omega, I am going to need some more drinks for the table." He ordered, and the omega nodded with fear.

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They spent hours playing games and betting enormous amounts of money. Drinks came every five seconds and Zayn was too drunk to be aware of what he was doing or what was happening around him. Someone had taken the body and no one mentioned anything about it, Liam handed out the rings and Zayn promised that the next time they met he would give them a million euros each.

They walked out of the place, and Zayn was barely able to move one foot in front of another and Liam had to help him so he wouldn't fall.

"Li... I don't know... what I would do... do without you." He muttered as the alpha placed him on the car's seat.

"I know Zayn, please stop moving." He asked tiredly and locked his seatbelt. The omega grabbed him by his shirt and pulled him until their lips reached, Liam moved instantly and closed the door.

Zayn smelled like an alpha and liquor, two things that Liam didn't like coming from his omega. He drove slowly through the streets of the city to prevent Zayn from puking in the car.

"Li." Zayn called. "Li, look at me."

"What do you want?" He asked, seriously.

"I... I want you to take me to... take me to, you know where." Liam looked at him and went back to the streets.

"Where do you want to go?"

"To the building of... of the dumb... dumbass" Liam frowned thinking of what he meant, but after a second he got it.

"What do you want to do there? It's three in the morning, I am exhausted and you are far too drunk to even speak."

"I want a ring." He looked at him. "For... I want a... so I can..."

"Yes, I got it. Go to sleep."

"No!" He complained. "I want... I want the ring. It's... It's an order."

"An order? Since when do you order me to do something?" Zayn moved towards him until he was seated on his lap "Zee... What are you doing?"

The omega began to place kisses on the alpha's neck while he was driving. Luckily for Liam, Zayn smelled too much like an alpha to even distract him a bit with his actions.

"Will... Will you take me there?" He whispered in his ear. Liam placed his hand on Zayn's back and rubbed it slowly.

"Of course, my love." Once this was said, the omega comfortably cuddled the alpha by the neck, feeling satisfied that he was going to make his impulse happen.

The alpha drove until he reached a huge building in the centre of the city, there was not a single person in the streets to see them so he parked the car in front of the principal door. He put his hands on Zayn's hips and held him tight so he could get down with him in his arms, once they were outside the vehicle he tried to make him stand by himself.

"Can you walk?" Zayn looked offended.

"Can you walk?" The alpha rolled his eyes and started walking toward the door, with a drunk Zayn trying to follow his steps without falling in the process.

A security guard walked to the door, he was wearing a white button-up and black trousers. He was shorter than Liam and smelled like a beta, he looked at them a little confused and spoke.

"Good night gentlemen. May I help you with something?"

"Y- yes, you can be... useful." The omega walked faster and tripped with the stairs. Liam stopped him from falling and Zayn smiled at him. "You are super strong." Liam rolled his eyes and looked at the guard once again.

"I need you to open the door." He said with a monotonous voice. The beta frowned.

"Do you have permission to go inside?"

"We have the authorization that we want to have." He said with a fake smile.

"Then I am afraid that you won't be able to go in, have a good night."

He turned around ready to continue his guard. Zayn took Liam's gun from his belt and shot the man in the head with a quick movement, of which he was somewhat surprised due to his drunken state. The beta fell to the ground and blood began to paint the concrete in red, Liam looked at Zayn in surprise and snatched the gun from him before he could do another stupid move.

"Zayn! Are you crazy?" He scalded, winning a soft laugh from his omega, who walked to where the body was and stole the keys.

"I didn't... have no time for..." He drunkenly started looking for the key that opened the door in front of him. "This damn... you should be the right one..."

"Zayn." He called using his alpha voice. Shivers ran down the omega's spine, he turned around and noticed the anger in the alpha's face.

"Yes, my love?" He replied softly and swallowed hard. Liam snatched the keys from his hands and opened the door.

The reception of the place was huge, there were several armchairs around the place and a desk in the background, the walls were painted in light colours as was the floor, although it was complicated to distinguish it due to the darkness that reigned in the place. Liam took Zayn by the waist and he helped to walk with him, but in a quick movement the omega began kissing him.

"Zayn." He said in between the kisses. The omega walked towards one of the couches and pushed Liam so he lied there.

"You are too drunk." He said, but Zayn ignored him and started to unbutton his shirt. "Zayn, no." He stopped him.

"Why?" He asked with surprise.

"You are too drunk and I would be taking advantage of that." He sat down, with Zayn still in his lap, put his hands on the omega's waist and hugged him. "I don't want you doing something you will regret tomorrow, you have done so much already."

"You are my alpha, it's not like you would be taking advantage of me or something, Li." Liam smiled and nodded his head.

"Of course not, that's why I am stopping you." he laid a soft kiss on his lips and they both laughed.

"But just for you to know," he kissed him again, "my heart is almost here."

Liam smiled and kissed Zayn again before standing up and leaving on the couch.

"So we will take care of that later"

He began to walk to one of the walls to turn on the light and when he was going to return

with Zayn he had already fallen asleep. He smiled and walked to the elevator door as he pulled out his phone and called Niall.

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The blond alpha was sleeping in his room when he heard his phone ringing, and for experience he knew that a call at thee am is never for something good, he sat down and answered without looking at the name of the caller.

"Horan." He replied, tired.

"Niall, it's Liam." The blond guy now separated the phone from his ear and looked at the screen, effectively the caller was Liam.

"What do you want? It's three in the morning! Am I the only one in this house that actually sleeps?" He complained and the other alpha rolled his eyes.

"I need you to come get Zayn, he fell asleep and told me to steal some rings of the man he killed. Oh! And I need you to get rid of the guard, he also killed him."

"ZAYN DID WHAT?!" He stood up and walked to his closet to get dressed.

"Long story. I am going to send you the address, drive fast."

Liam ended the call and Niall got dressed as fast as he could at the same time he complained. He walked out his room and ordered two of the alpha's that were in the hallway to follow him. They arrived at the place within a few minutes.

"Holy hell." He said, staring at the body on the ground. "Take care of that, I will take care of the boss."

Both guards nodded at his orders and continued to load the corpse into the truck they were in. Niall entered the building and looked up at the ceiling meeting two security cameras, he sighed and walked over to Zayn.

"Hey." He said, and received no answer. "You stink to alpha, I have no idea Liam deals with this thing."

He moved him a bit but Zayn didn't cooperate. One of the alphas that had followed him helped to put the omega in the car and he instructed them to take him home, they nodded and left the place.

Liam was checking the top floor, where the executive offices were located, he searched behind every picture on the wall until he found a box with some passwords in which he supposed was the ring that Zayn was looking for. He really didn't know what it looked like or the reason why Zayn wanted that, but asking Zayn wouldn't solve anything at all.

His phone rang, it was Niall.

"What happened?" He asked as he tried to open the box.

"Nothing, I already sent Zayn home. Where are you?"

"Top floor."

With that said, Niall ended the call and opened the door.

"That was fast."

"Well, yes, I was looking for you." He got near the alpha to look at what he was doing. "These alphas believe that having a safe in their buildings will keep their things protected, what they don't know is that this Irish man can open any lock."

He took a metal clip from his pocket and entered it in the lock, he moved it a little bit until a soft 'click' sounded and the door opened.

"Niall one, door cero." Liam rolled his eyes and took a crystal box out, inside of that was a small black box.

"Do you think the ring is here?"

"Well, it's the only thing in here, isn't it?" Niall said with a smile "Did he say the reason for why he wanted it?"

"No, he just said that he wanted me to steal it." Niall smiled even more and took the ring.

"He wants to propose to you." Ae said as if it was nothing, checking the details of the ring. Liam almost choked with his own saliva and looked at Niall.

"He wants what?" Niall laughed out loud and gave him the ring.

"He wants to propose, but that is irrelevant now. And we don't even know if that's the ring, or he just wanted to have it." He started to walk to the door and turned around to see Liam, who was still frozen by what he had said. "Are we gonna leave or... ?"

"Yes, yes, I just need to erase the videos that the cameras captured and..."

"Leave that for someone else to do, I need to talk to you about something important right now"

Liam nodded and they both walked out of the building and towards the place where Liam had left the car. Once inside, Liam started to drive to the house, but Niall asked him to stop a few blocks away.

"What did you want to talk about?" The alpha asked with a peaceful voice. Niall sighed and smiled.

"Li, you know you are like family and you have been since before I was," he started, "but I think that you don't really know how to use your position in this place, in other words, you have no idea on how to tell Zayn 'no'"

"What are you talking about?"

"Look, Zayn is a bit... impulsive. And when we talk about work, sometimes he doesn't know what the best decisions are, to himself and not just for him at that moment."

"But that is what you and Louis are for, to help him make decisions."

"That's right. But sometimes, well, most of the time Zayn does what he wants and you know that because he does the same with you." Liam frowned and moved his head, like a little puppy not understanding what Niall was saying. "I say it in the best way possible, don't get me wrong, but you know it's true." He sighed. "My point is, Zayn needs someone to stop him before doing stupid decisions that affects us all, like killing two men in a night and rubbing a building at 3am while being drunk in hell knows how many types of alcohol."

Liam looked down knowing what he meant, Niall was right and as hard as it was for Liam to accept, he knew Zayn needed someone to tell him no sometimes.

"Things like this affect the reputation of our mafia." He kept talking with a serious voice. "It's not normal that the main crown of one of the biggest mafias of Europe is seen walking drunk in the streets at 3am. And that's when you get in the picture." Liam looked at him again. "I need you to keep an eye on him, more than now, and when he tells you to steal a ring from a building you say no. I know he can be persuasive sometimes, especially to you. But as you have been doing, you have to pretend to be just his bodyguard when he gets like this, also when he is drinking too much or betting way too much money."

"So you want me to be his babysitter?"

"I want you to be his alpha." He corrected him. "I want you to say no, and teach him to behave like he has to, the same way we have to behave sometimes even when we don't want to." Liam nodded. "Well then, you know what to do. I want this to be kept just between us two you can tell Louis, but no Zayn."

"If he asks I won't lie."

"I know, just don't be the one that sets the idea in his head. He has to learn, and won't listen to Louis or me."

"Okay, is that all?" He asked and Niall nodded.

They drove the few blocks that were missing to get to the house. Liam was angry, but he understood Niall's words and, after all, he was still his boss so he had to obey.