"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

was pierced, the pain unbearable as he saw the

forced himself to push through the

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

heart raced with terror as

wake up if she

felt suffocating, as though it were closing in, swallowing

eyes still wet with tears, gazed at the man before

burned with a fire she hadn't seen in so

a

replaced by shadows ever since he'd

become darker

person she

laugh

closed, and with what

"You are Jasper...

but...

brow furrowed, a wrenching pain twisting inside

knew the cold had clouded her mind that

every word sliced through him, deep

the soaked fabric clinging to her, the icy slush weighing

"Don't touch me...

tou—" Alyssa's

could do nothing else to resist him than voicing

and wrapped it around her trembling form, trying to

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