"Justin, you bastard! If anything happens to Ms. Bella, you'll regret it for the rest of your life!"

The frigid night air was biting, with the temperature plunging to a bone-chilling minus 20 degrees Celsius.

The blizzard in the mountains grew fiercer, cutting across Bella's face like a bone-scraping razor-cold and sharp. The frenzied shadows of the trees, the howling wind around her, and the unspeakable eerie atmosphere added to the suffocating sorrow already weighing on her heart.

Bracing against the piercing wind and trudging through the snow with the support of her cane, Bella moved forward, each step deep and uncertain. She had no destination in mind and no idea where she was headed.

Her heart was broken, in a state of despair. The plummeting temperature lowered her willpower, leaving her with no motivation to keep going.

Adrift in the savage mountain wilderness, a person without the will to live on was no different than a lamb before being slaughtered. One wrong step and nature's merciless hand could easily swallow her whole.

"Justin... I hate you... I hate you so much..."

Bella forced her numb legs to keep moving as she muttered hoarsely, her eyes reddened, and tears frozen at their

corners.

She had planned to use this climb as a chance to revisit the places they'd been, to return to the cave where they had once sought refuge from a landslide, reliving their shared moments of peril.

all a dream, turned to

no more

it's time to wake

her eyes

you anymore... To him, you're no longer

escaping as she spoke. Helplessness, resentment, and pain gnawed at her heart, torn and

staggered forward, Bella's foot slipped,

collecting snow until she resembled a snowball

Even though she was wearing a down jacket, the dull pain shot through her entire body, paralyzing her and making it impossible

she laid there staring at the

her teeth and tried to rise, only for her frozen legs

in, her

during a storm when she was eleven and lost in the mountains.

around, she ended

into a pitiful ball. She

into

Forest Park

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