Sienna POV
Sienna had always been the pack princess.
It was supposed to mean something. It was supposed to matter. She'd grown up knowing that her future was locked in place. A strong Beta male as her mate. A Luna position waiting for her. A life of power and respect and importance. That was her birthright. That was what being the Alpha's sister meant.
Then Rose showed up.
Sienna sat in the dining room and watched her brother avoid eye contact with everyone. Watched Kade stare at nothing with that broken expression. Watched the entire pack fracture around a girl who didn't even know pack law. A girl who'd been here for two days and had already destroyed everything.
And no one was doing anything about it.
Sienna made a decision.
She found Rose in the compound's garden that afternoon. The girl was sitting alone on a bench, looking lost and terrified like she always did. Sienna walked over and smiled her prettiest smile.
"Hi," she said, sitting down beside her. "I wanted to welcome you to the pack properly. I know all this is overwhelming."
Rose looked up and there was relief in her eyes. Relief that someone was being nice to her. Relief that someone was treating her like a person instead of a problem.
Sienna hated that relief.
"I'm Sienna. Chase's sister," she said, and she touched Rose's arm gently. "I just wanted you to know that you're safe here. Even though things are complicated."
"Complicated how?" Rose asked, and she sounded scared.
Sienna leaned in closer like she was about to share a secret.
"The council met about you," she said quietly. "About your scent. About the fact that both the Alpha and Beta are claiming you."
Rose's body went rigid.
"What did they say?"
Sienna let herself smile. Just a small smile. Just enough for Rose to understand that what she was about to hear was very bad.
"They said that if you become a threat to pack stability, they're going to execute you. As an example. As a warning to other rare omegas who might think about destabilizing the hierarchy." Sienna watched Rose's face go pale. Watched her realize that she wasn't safe. Watched the fear bloom in her eyes like a flower opening.
It felt good. It felt so good to hurt someone.
"But don't worry," Sienna added, squeezing her arm. "My brother will protect you. He's very powerful. He won't let anything happen to you."
But Rose was shaking now. Rose was understanding that her existence was a problem. That her life hung in the balance. That everything Sienna had been saying was true.
"Why are you telling me this?" Rose whispered.
Sienna stood up and looked down at her. "Because I want you to know the truth. You're a threat. Not because of what you are. But because of what you're doing to this pack."
She walked away leaving Rose sitting alone on that bench, completely broken.
That night, Sienna sat in her room and opened her laptop. She had a message to send. One that had been waiting for the right moment. One that was about to change everything.
She found the contact and typed quickly.
"Blake, it's Sienna Winters from the northern pack. I have information you'll want to hear. The Alpha has a rare omega. A girl with a scent that's making the entire pack unstable. The Beta is challenging him. The council is considering executing her. The pack is fracturing from the inside. I think now might be a good time to test the territory. They won't be able to defend it properly."
She hit send and waited.
The response came almost immediately. Blake was always ready. Always waiting for an opportunity.
"How rare? And how unstable are we talking?"
Sienna smiled and typed back.
"The rarest. The kind of omega that shouldn't exist. Both the Alpha and Beta are claiming her as their mate. The pack has never seen anything like it. The council is terrified. The Beta might challenge the Alpha. This pack is about to tear itself apart from the inside."
She waited. The little dots appeared. Blake was typing. Blake was thinking. Blake was planning.
"This is perfect. If the Alpha and Beta go to war over her, the pack will be weak. I can move in. I can take the territory. I can expand my own pack."
Sienna's hands were shaking as she typed.
"When?"
"Soon. Give me a week. I'm gathering my strongest wolves. When I attack, the northern pack won't know what hit them. And Sienna? I'm going to remember that you helped me. You're going to be rewarded for this."
She closed the laptop and sat back in her chair.
What had she done?
The thought came to her suddenly and it made her stomach clench. She'd just started a war. She'd just sent word to a rival pack that would lead to bloodshed. She'd just put hundreds of wolves in danger because she was jealous.
But when she thought about Rose sitting on that bench, broken and terrified, when she thought about Chase being distracted, when she thought about her Luna position being taken away by a girl who didn't even understand pack law, the guilt disappeared.
Rose deserved this.
Sienna opened her laptop again and sent another message to Blake.
"The girl's name is Rose. She's half-human. Half-shifter. Her scent is sweet and wild. The Alpha won't let anyone hurt her. But if you take her, if you threaten her, Chase will lose his mind. He'll make mistakes. You can use her against him."
Blake's response made her blood run cold.
"I don't want to hurt her. I want to keep her. A mate who can bond with two alphas? With the right training, she could strengthen my entire pack. She could make me unstoppable."
Sienna's hands went numb.
She'd sent Blake a target. She'd told him where to find Rose. She'd given him a reason to invade and now he wanted to capture her. Wanted to take her away. Wanted to use her as a weapon.
And it was Sienna's fault.
But there was no taking it back now. There was no unsending the messages. There was no stopping Blake from coming. The war was already in motion.
Sienna closed her laptop and sat in the darkness of her room and tried not to think about what was about to happen.
Tried not to imagine the blood that would spill because of her jealousy.
Tried not to feel guilty about the innocent people who were about to die.
But she could already hear the sounds of war echoing through the mountains. Could already smell the violence coming from the south. Could already sense that everything was about to change and there was nothing she could do to stop it.
Downstairs, her brother was probably still awake. Probably still dealing with the crisis he didn't know was about to get a thousand times worse.
Sienna sat alone in the darkness and finally let herself cry.
Not because she felt guilty about Rose.
But because she suddenly understood that her jealousy had just destroyed everyone.