A/N: I forgot that some of you guys either don't know much about EXO or weren't around in the Kpop scene when EXO was OT12. So, Kris Wu and Wu Yifan are the same person. Yifan is just Kris's Chinese name. I'll use both named in the books interchangeably.

Queen's POV

I lay in bed as I stared at the ceiling above. Beside me Taehyung was fast asleep. He had been given medicines after which he kind of dozed off due to the tiredness from earlier coupled with his condition.

Kris did not come to the warehouse today. Then how the fuck did his locket end up there?

I did not want to think negatively. Maybe he gave it to one of the boys to wear. But he was overly possessive of that locket. I recalled how Kai always asked to wear it and Kris would refuse.

Then it could mean only one thing.

I gulped and my throat was parched dry. No, Yifan would never do any of this. He had been with us for 8 years now. He had at so many occasions proved his loyalty for the group. Why would he all of a sudden turn against us?

Conflicted and disturbed, I stood up as I headed for the door. I should go talk to Suho or Xiumin. I slowly opened the door as I stepped out. The hallways were empty. The EXO boys must be asleep. I had given Bangtan Tao, Sehun and Kai's rooms.

I approached Xiumin's room and I knocked. After the sound of approaching footsteps, the door was opened.

"Hyelin", the door opened and I saw Xiumin with a glass of whiskey. "Is everything alright?"

"Yes— I mean no. Not everything is alright", I said pushing past him and into the room. "I am here to talk to you about Y—"

I stopped as I noticed Kris, Luhan and Suho sitting there and sipping on their drinks. Shit. Shit. Shit. I could have really spilt everything.

"We were just having a Hyung line drink session", Suho said pouring some Bacardi in his cup. "You know about our ritual right?"

"Yes", I answered calmly. I could feel Kris's eyes on me so I composed myself and brought the usual look on my face that they were accustomed to.

"What did you have to say?", Yifan asked. "When you entered you said you had something to talk about"

"Oh yeah", I gulped nervously. "I—I was actually here to talk about Yves from Loona. You guys she is so pretty—", I immediately changed the topic.

"Oh cut it out Hyelin", Luhan yelled. "Go away. Shoo. Shoo. We don't want to talk about Kpop with you"

"Fine. Fine", I raised my hand in defense. "Make me a drink as well Suho"

Suho nodded, pouring my favorite mix of in a cup.

"So Yifan", I turned to the older. "Where were you the whole day? We needed you today. You just disappeared"

"Yeah, I am sorry. I had some issues with dealers from Hong Kong. So I went to meet them at the port. I just came home 5 minutes ago and Xiumin was in the kitchen getting ice so he whisked me here to join them for drinks"

"Wait", I turned to the boys. "Did you guys not tell him?"

The rest three looked at me blankly.

"Tell me what?", Kris was getting impatient.

"Bangtan", I said. "They landed in some shit today at Warehouse 31. We helped them and now they are crashing at EXO mansion for some days"

Kris was taken aback for a second. I swear I saw his eyes cloud like he wasn't expecting to hear that at all. He pushed his chair and stood up. "They are crashing here!?"

"Yeah", I replied as I noticed how worked up he got. "We are allies now. We will help them eliminate Leo and the other people involved in this shit"

"You have to be kidding me", Kris shot back, though his tone was full of anger and danger. "We will not aid them. Please remove them from this mansion first thing tomorrow"

"They are not going anywhere. They stay here. And you make your peace with their presence"

"You are literally shielding our enemies. Just because you think you are in love with one of them, doesn't mean you put all of us in danger"

"First of all", I stood up and walked up-to him, pushing my finger in his chest. "I don't think I am in love with one of them. I am actually in love with Taehyung. Second, don't fucking tell me what to do. This is my Mafia and I don't have to remind you about that"

Kris glared at me which I returned with equal force. He slammed his glass on the table before pushing past me and walking of the room.

"Hyelin!", Suho scolded me. "What's wrong with you? Why did you snap like this?"

I said nothing, just glanced at Xiumin who understood something was wrong.

"We'll go talk about it", he said standing up and holding my arm to take me along. "Luhan, go check on Kris". I let Xiumin take me to the garden of our mansion. While alone, he turned to me. "I know something's up. What is it?"

I said nothing but removed Kris's locket and held it for Xiumin to see.

"Isn't this Kris's? Why do you have it?", he was confused.

"You know where I found this?", I began, clutching the golden accessory in my palm. "At the warehouse today. In the explosion, it was thrown right at me"

"But Yifan never came to the warehouse with us. It was only 11 of us", he stated confused before he realized what I was saying and his eyes widened.

"Exactly!", I concluded. "If Yifan never came to the warehouse, how did his jewellery end there? It can only mean one thing. He was there before all of this happened"

"Hyelin", Xiumin was appalled as he said my name. "This— this is a serious accusation. You know what this means right? Its our Yifan. We cannot just accuse him of things like this"

"I know Xiumin", I sighed. "We could be wrong or we could be right. But you know in this business. Never trust anyone. Right now Kris is only a suspect. We need to keep tabs on him"

"Let us tell the others", Xiumin suggested. "That way they can be vary of him"

"No", I immediately corrected. "No. Keep this between us now. If the others get involved, it will become a big mess. And I don't want Kris to get a whiff of it"

"I—I am out of words", Xiumin sighed. "Why would Yifan do this to us? He is part of our family. And what could have Bangtan done to him that he is so hell bent on destroying them without even telling us his intentions?"

"I don't want to believe this too", I looked at my feet as I said that. "But the saddest thing about betrayal is that it never comes from enemies"

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Third Person POV

Kris slammed open the door to his room as he entered. He closed it with a thud and headed for the bed. Luhan was outside but he dismissed him, clearly not in the mood to talk. Removing his coat, he threw it on the bed before proceeding to fall on the mattress himself.

He grunted as he recalled the conversation from earlier. Just the thought of being in the same house with Bangtan made him mad. He couldn't stand any of them and murderous thoughts started clouding his mind.

He sat up straight and grabbed the gun from his coat before heading towards the door. Maybe the best thing to do would be to end them. Head into their rooms and shoot Namjoon to death.

But he couldn't do that. Hyelin would skin him alive if he so as to even touched Bangtan here. After her little stint at the Bangtan mansion for some weird reason she had become attached to all of them. And this was becoming a hindrance to him.

With a sigh he threw the gun away. He stood up as he approached a safe in his room. He removed a necklace from around his neck which had a key to unlock the safe but something felt weird.

He touched his neck again to see that there were no signs of another necklace he wore. A golden one with his name engraved in Mandarin. Kris's eyes widened as he realised he had dropped the necklace somewhere.

He mentally cursed himself for being this irresponsible. He had to find it somehow. Maybe he dropped it in the house somewhere.

Dismissing this irrelevant thoughts, he opened the safe. At the back was a little box which he removed. Rested in that box was a burner phone. He turned it on and dialled a number.

"Leo, meet me at our place after three hours. Get Lawrence too"

"Yess Boss", Leo replied from the other side.