"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 sagging to

heart was pierced, the pain unbearable

to push through the agony, opening his arms to

someone in a state of hypothermia, falling unconscious could be fatal, even more so when the will

terror as

she might never wake up if she

them felt suffocating, as though it were closing in,

wet with tears, gazed at the man before

eyes burned with a fire she hadn't

a beat, racing

fire had long been replaced by shadows

eyes, once full of light, had become

she wanted to see at

laugh escaped her

what little

"You are Jasper...

but...

don't need you anymore..." Jasper's brow furrowed, a

her

sliced through

protests, he reached for the soaked fabric

"Don't touch me...

tou—" Alyssa's eyes were

else to resist him than voicing

Jasper stripped off his coat and wrapped it around her trembling form, trying to share what little warmth

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