Chapter 250:Humiliation and a Late-Night Call

(Grace's POV) The cold bit through my blankets as I sat outside the Amber Pack estate's imposing gates. My wheelchair offered little protection against the harsh Northern territory winds, and I pulled my coat tighter around my frail body. The silver poisoning had weakened me significantly, but desperation drove me here tonight. Everything had collapsed so quickly. Mother's arrest, Father's abandonment, Daniel's coldness... the Winter Pack was in shambles. Without money for my treatment, death loomed closer each day. Alexander was my last hope. "Miss Winter, please leave. Our Alpha Heir will not see you," the pack guard announced upon his return, not bothering to hide his disdain. I gripped the wheelchair's armrests tightly, feeling my nails dig into the padding. "No, I must see him. Tell him if I don't see him, I won't leave." My voice sounded foreign to my own ears – pleading, desperate. So different from the commanding tone I once used when the Winter Pack stood strong and Alexa