"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 body sagging to one

heart was pierced, the pain unbearable as he saw the

the agony, opening his arms to

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

terror

she might never wake up if

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

wet with tears, gazed at

burned with a fire she

heart skipped a beat,

by

had become darker than the night, colder

last person she wanted to see at this

bitter laugh

with what little

"You are Jasper...

but...

Jasper's brow furrowed, a wrenching pain twisting inside

the cold had clouded her mind that she

through him, deep and

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

"Don't touch me...

tou—" Alyssa's

nothing else to resist him than

coat and wrapped it around her trembling form, trying to share what little warmth he

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