"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.

her body

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

to push through the

at me!" For someone in a state of hypothermia, falling unconscious could be fatal, even more so when the will

terror as

might never wake up if she closed her

felt suffocating, as though it

eyes still wet with tears, gazed

burned with a fire

heart skipped a beat, racing

long been replaced by shadows ever since

of light, had become

person she wanted to

laugh escaped

and with what little strength remained, she pushed

"You are Jasper...

but...

brow furrowed, a wrenching pain twisting inside

her mind that she was

every word sliced through

soaked fabric

"Don't touch me...

tou—" Alyssa's eyes

to resist him than voicing out

coat and wrapped it around

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