"Jas..." Alyssa looked at Jasper with an unfocused gaze.

Her breaths were shallow, and she was slipping in and out of consciousness.

Mentally, she was confused.

"Yes, it's me—Jasper!" Jasper's heart clenched as he saw the color drain from her face.

Her body trembled uncontrollably, fragile as a leaf caught in the wind.

She resembled the kitten he had saved as a child—frozen and alone in the alley that bitter winter night.

A deep sorrow flooded his chest.

"Jas... per..." Alyssa murmured his name, her voice strained, her tongue numb from the cold.

A faint, mocking smile tugged at the corners of her lips, and tears streamed down her cheeks.

"It seems...

like I am about...

to freeze to death...

How could he be here...

He will not come back...

He doesn't want me anymore..." Alyssa's vision blurred as her eyelids grew heavy.

began to lean, her body sagging to one

awake!" Jasper's heart was pierced, the pain unbearable as he saw the

the agony, opening his

a state of hypothermia, falling unconscious could be fatal,

terror as he watched

up if she

though it were closing in,

tears, gazed at the man

fire

skipped a beat, racing

been replaced by shadows ever since he'd

once full of light, had become darker

person she wanted to see at

laugh escaped

eyes fluttered closed, and with what little strength remained,

"You are Jasper...

but...

brow furrowed, a wrenching pain twisting inside

cold had clouded her mind

word sliced through him,

fabric clinging to her, the icy slush

"Don't touch me...

Alyssa's eyes

could do nothing else to resist him

a somber expression, Jasper stripped off his coat and wrapped it around her

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