"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

pierced, the pain

to push through the

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

terror as

feared she might never wake up if she closed

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

with tears, gazed at

eyes burned with a fire she hadn't seen

skipped a

long been replaced by shadows ever since

full of light, had become

last person she wanted to see at this

laugh escaped her

what little strength remained, she pushed

"You are Jasper...

but...

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

clouded her mind that she

through him, deep

the soaked fabric clinging to her,

"Don't touch me...

tou—" Alyssa's eyes were

to resist him than voicing out

a somber expression, Jasper stripped off his coat and wrapped it around her trembling form, trying to share what little warmth he had

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