"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 body

the pain unbearable as he saw the denial

forced himself to push through the agony, opening his

a state of hypothermia, falling unconscious could be fatal,

heart raced with terror as he

feared she might never wake up if

around them felt suffocating, as though it were closing

eyes still wet with tears, gazed at

eyes burned with a fire she hadn't

heart skipped a beat,

that fire had long been replaced by shadows ever since he'd woken from

had become darker than the

it was him—Jasper—the last person she wanted to see

bitter laugh escaped

what little

"You are Jasper...

but...

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

knew the cold had clouded her

through him, deep and

he reached for the soaked fabric clinging to her, the icy slush weighing

"Don't touch me...

tou—" Alyssa's eyes were

to resist him

around her trembling form,

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