"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.

to lean, her body

heart was pierced, the pain unbearable as

push through the agony, opening his arms

Jasper! Open your eyes! Look at me!" For someone in a state of hypothermia, falling unconscious could be fatal, even more so when the will was

raced with terror as he

never wake up if she closed her

oppressive darkness around them felt suffocating, as though it were closing in, swallowing any hope

her eyes still wet with tears, gazed at the

eyes burned with a fire she

skipped a beat, racing

long been replaced by shadows ever since he'd woken

once full of light, had become darker than the

she wanted to see at this

bitter laugh

and with what little strength remained, she

"You are Jasper...

but...

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

clouded her mind that she

through him, deep

fabric clinging to

"Don't touch me...

Alyssa's

resist him than

around her trembling form, trying to share what little warmth

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