"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

awake!" Jasper's heart was pierced, the pain unbearable as he saw

to push through the agony, opening his arms to

eyes! Look at me!" For someone in a state of

with terror as he watched

might never wake up if she closed her

it were closing in, swallowing any hope

eyes still wet with tears, gazed

fire she hadn't seen

heart skipped a beat,

fire had long been replaced by shadows ever since he'd woken from

once full of light, had become darker than the

person she wanted

bitter laugh

with what

"You are Jasper...

but...

don't need you anymore..." Jasper's brow

had clouded her mind that she was

through

soaked fabric clinging to her, the icy slush weighing her

"Don't touch me...

Alyssa's eyes were

could do nothing else to resist him than voicing out

it around her trembling form, trying to share what little

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