"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.

lean, her body

pierced, the pain

to push through the agony, opening his arms to

someone in a state of hypothermia, falling unconscious could be fatal, even more so when the

terror as he

never wake up if she

it were closing in, swallowing any hope they had

eyes still wet with tears, gazed at the

a fire she hadn't seen in

a

replaced by shadows ever since he'd woken from

full of light, had become darker than the night,

last person she wanted to see at

bitter laugh

with what little strength remained, she pushed him

"You are Jasper...

but...

you anymore..." Jasper's brow furrowed, a wrenching

cold had clouded her mind

through

the soaked fabric clinging to

"Don't touch me...

Alyssa's

to resist

coat and wrapped it around her trembling form, trying to share

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