Can’t Win Me Back by Ginger Sue

Chapter 2343

Elias frowned deeply; his worry etched onto his face.

"We've been shouting Ms. Alyssa's name the whole way. With so many of us calling out, she should've heard us by now if she were nearby!"

In a deep voice, Jasper said, "The wind is too strong, and then there's the heavy snowfall. Our voices are being drowned out. Lyse might not hear us at all.

Lyse.

Her nickname slipped from his lips before he even realized it.

"I'm just afraid she's injured-or worse, fainted. If she blacks out in this cold..." Elias trailed off, his voice heavy with dread. "On a day like this, she won't survive long. She'll freeze to death."

The group exchanged uneasy glances, the reality of his words tightening their chests.

It wasn't that Elias was being a doomsayer. Rather, this was the cruel reality that might actually happen.

Crater Mountain claimed lives every year. Danger lurked unpredictably in the woods on the mountain-anything could unfold.

"Let's split up," Jasper commanded, his eyes fixed on the shadowy forest. His voice carried an edge of desperation. "We're not leaving until we find her."

Elias hesitated. "But what if-

off, his voice trembling with fierce

strode into the darkness, his

heavy sigh. "They're right when they say aristocratic families raise people with

the

their past. If he were Alyssa, where would he go? Jasper's heart

surged back-the harrowing brush with death, the suffocating fear, and the

protect

in dizzying chaos. A heavy thud echoed as his strength gave out, sending him crashing to

have

clawed at the frozen ground, forcing himself to stand. His muscles screamed in protest, but he pushed forward. "I

the midst of hopelessness, the temperature continued to

as ruthless and cold

into a tight ball, pressing herself against the rock. The pure white snow blanketed her almost entirely, rendering her

hypothermia took its

frozen stiff, and she would be at

tighter into herself. Lost in a daze, fragments of heartwarming childhood memories

unexpected warmth. In the depths of her daze, her late mother had appeared, her arms wide open, enveloping

girl. Don't be

hair. "I know that you've been through a lot. Go to sleep. I'll keep

"Mom... I'm exhausted...