Ruined Night: His Embrace, The Only Safe Harbor

This protracted war has turned everyone into an isolated island. Adelaide Blackwood, an elite agent codenamed "Cork," has just lost her husband, Chen Mo—a legendary camera soldier who fell in an ambush by the Interstellar Toilet Legion. On the surface, she remains the top agent whose very name strikes fear into the enemy, but every night she is swallowed by an abyss of grief. That evening, utterly devastated, she sought out Jasper Thorne, a sound soldier and fellow war orphan. Not out of love, but out of the instinctive grasp of a drowning person reaching for driftwood. Jasper Thorne, a hardened man long accustomed to solitude and silence, had now become the one thing Adelaide Blackwood, in her darkness...