"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

pierced, the pain

the agony,

a state of hypothermia, falling unconscious could be fatal, even more

raced with terror as he watched

she might never wake up if she closed her

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

eyes still wet with tears, gazed at the man before

a fire she hadn't

a beat,

by shadows ever since he'd

had become darker than the night,

last person she wanted

laugh escaped

what little strength remained, she pushed

"You are Jasper...

but...

anymore..." Jasper's brow furrowed,

her

through him, deep

reached for the soaked fabric clinging to her, the icy

"Don't touch me...

Alyssa's eyes

to resist him than voicing out

expression, Jasper stripped off his coat and wrapped it around

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