Victoria's POV
Victoria slammed her fist on her father's desk so hard that his coffee cup jumped and spilled everywhere. The brown liquid spread across important papers, but she didn't care. Nothing mattered except the rage burning through her chest.
"Three months!" she screamed. "He's been sneaking around with that little omega for three months!"
Alpha Cross looked up from the spy report in his hands, his face calm while his daughter fell apart. "Victoria, control yourself."
"Control myself?" Victoria laughed, but it sounded more like a growl. "My future husband has been cheating on me with kitchen trash, and you want me to stay calm?"
"You weren't married yet," her father pointed out. "Technically, Kai hasn't broken any promises."
Victoria wanted to throw something else, ideally at her father's stupid logical face. "Do you know what this means? Everyone in both packs will be talking about this. They'll say I wasn't good enough to keep my own mate interested."
"Which is why we need to handle this carefully," Alpha Cross said. "The engagement news was just made yesterday. If word gets out about Kai's... side actions... it could ruin everything."
Victoria walked back and forth like a caged animal. She had worked her whole life for this moment. Ever since she was a little girl, she'd been told she would marry the most powerful Alpha in the area. She would be a Luna, the most important woman in the werewolf world.
And now some nobody omega was trying to steal her future.
"What do we know about her?" Victoria asked.
Her father looked at the spy report again. " Maya Rose. Age eighteen. Parents died in a car crash two years ago. No other family. Works in the Sterling pack house kitchen. Lives alone in a small house on the edge of pack territory."
"So she's poor and desperate," Victoria said with pleasure. "Perfect. Desperate people will do anything for money."
"Actually, there's more." Alpha Cross's voice got serious. "According to our spy, Maya Rose is pregnant."
Victoria froze. The room went totally silent except for the sound of her heart pounding in her ears.
"Pregnant?" she whispered.
"Three months along, which matches the timeline of when she and Kai started their affair."
Victoria felt like someone had punched her in the stomach. A baby. Kai had gotten that little omega pregnant while he was supposed to be planning their wedding.
"The baby could be anyone's," Victoria said desperately. "She probably sleeps around."
"Our spy says no. Maya Rose has only been seen with Kai. The whole pack knows she's been his regular woman for months."
Victoria's hands started shaking with anger. This was so much worse than just an affair. A baby meant a permanent link between Kai and Maya. Even after Victoria married him, that omega and her child would always be there, telling everyone that Kai had chosen someone else first.
"We have to get rid of her," Victoria said bitterly.
"Victoria," her father warned.
"No, listen to me. As long as she lives, she's a threat to everything we've worked for. People will always wonder if Kai really wanted to marry me or if he was pushed into it. They'll look at her bastard child and remember that Kai loved someone else enough to make a baby with her."
Alpha Cross was quiet for a long moment. Victoria could see him thinking, weighing the possibilities like he always did.
"What do you suggest?" he asked finally.
"We make her disappear. Tonight. Before the rejection ceremony tomorrow."
"And if Kai finds out we were involved?"
Victoria smiled coldly. "He won't. It'll look like an accident. Poor little omega, so sad about being rejected, chose to run away in the middle of the night. Unfortunately, she had a car accident on the dark mountain roads. So sad."
Her father nodded slowly. "I have men who can handle that kind of accident."
"Good. But first, I want to talk to her myself."
"Victoria, that's not wise."
"I need to see her face when she realizes her little fairy tale is over. I need her to know exactly who destroyed her pathetic life."
Alpha Cross sighed. "Fine. But make it quick. The men need time to set up the accident properly."
Victoria felt a rush of energy. Finally, she was taking control of her own life instead of waiting for other people to fix her issues. Maya Rose had no idea what was coming for her.
An hour later, Victoria was driving through Sterling pack territory toward Maya's house. Her heart was beating fast, but not from fear. From anticipation. She was about to destroy the one person standing between her and everything she wanted.
When Victoria reached the small house, she saw that the lights were on inside. Perfect. Maya was home.
Victoria parked and walked to the front door. She could smell something strange in the air - fear, sadness, and something else she couldn't name. Maya must already know about tomorrow's rejection event.
Victoria knocked on the door. "Maya? I'm Victoria Cross. Kai's fiancée. I think we need to talk."
No answer.
Victoria knocked harder. "I know you're in there. Open the door."
Still nothing.
Growing angry, Victoria tried the door handle. It turned easily. These small-town people never locked their doors. How stupid.
Victoria walked inside and immediately knew something was wrong. The cabin felt empty, like no one had been there for hours. And there were things spread around - an open dresser drawer, papers on the floor, a coffee cup still half full on the kitchen counter.
"Hello?" Victoria called out. "Maya?"
She walked through the tiny house, checking every room. No one was there. But in the bedroom, Victoria found something that made her blood run cold.
The closet was empty. The dresser drawers were pulled out and mostly empty. On the bed was a note written in messy handwriting: "Sarah - Thank you for everything. I had to leave sooner than planned. Take care of yourself. - M"
Victoria stared at the note, her mind racing. Maya had run away. She'd packed up and left before Victoria could get to her.
The omega was gone, and with her, any chance Victoria had of controlling this situation.
Victoria pulled out her phone and called her father. "She's gone. Maya Rose ran away."
"What? When?"
"I don't know. Recently. Her things are gone and she left a note."
There was silence on the other end. Then her father's voice, cold and angry: "Find her. Use every resource we have. That girl cannot be allowed to leave with Kai's baby."
"What if we can't find her?"
"Then we have a much bigger problem than a simple affair," Alpha Cross said grimly. "If Maya Rose emerges in a few years with a child that looks like Kai, it could destroy both our packs' reputations. We'll spend decades fighting rumors and challenges to our power."
Victoria felt fear rising in her chest. "So what do we do?"
"We expand the search. And we make sure that when we find Maya Rose, she disappears forever. Along with any proof that she was ever pregnant with Kai Sterling's child."
Victoria hung up the phone, her hands shaking. This had gone from a simple jealousy problem to something much more dangerous. Maya Rose wasn't just a foe anymore.
She was a threat that had to be removed.
But as Victoria turned to leave the empty house, she heard something that made her freeze.
The sound of a motorbike getting closer.
Victoria looked out the window and saw headlights coming up the road toward the cabin. Her heart stopped when she recognized the bike.
It was Kai.
And he was going to find Victoria standing in his pregnant girlfriend's empty house.