"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

Jasper's heart was pierced, the pain unbearable as

to push through the agony, opening his arms to cradle

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

terror as

she might never wake up

though it were

eyes still wet with tears, gazed at

fire she hadn't seen in so

skipped a beat,

by shadows

eyes, once full of light, had become darker than

person she

bitter laugh

fluttered closed, and with what little strength remained, she

"You are Jasper...

but...

brow furrowed, a wrenching pain twisting inside

had clouded her mind that she was

sliced through him, deep

reached for the soaked fabric clinging to her, the

"Don't touch me...

tou—" Alyssa's eyes

nothing else to resist him

a somber expression, Jasper stripped off his coat and wrapped it around her trembling form, trying to share

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