"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

was pierced, the pain unbearable as

forced himself to push through the agony, opening his arms

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

with terror as

never wake up if she closed

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

with tears,

eyes burned with a fire she hadn't seen in so

a

fire had long been replaced by shadows

light, had become darker

him—Jasper—the last person she wanted

bitter laugh escaped

with what little

"You are Jasper...

but...

brow furrowed, a wrenching pain

had clouded her mind

sliced through

soaked fabric clinging to

"Don't touch me...

tou—" Alyssa's

nothing else 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

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