Despite the Guns in Our Hands

Early spring, 1943, Two years had passed since the war ended and the flames of war once again swept across the entire continent.

It was around that time when Ainkle’s spy, Grace, first met that man.

Ian Turner, He was a spy for the enemy nation that had stolen her homeland and her family. He was the man who, for the first time, handed her a crushing defeat.

He was the one who, to satisfy his desire for her body, held the life of the person she cherished most in his hands, toying with it.

“Grace, how long are you going to keep pushing me away?”

“…What kind of question is that? Until either your head gets blown off or mine does, I’ll keep pushing you away till one of us dies.”

She believed nothing would ever change.

Yes, she had no doubt.

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The two moved slowly to the flowing music. Their pressed-together bodies shared warmth.

A warmth that wrapped around a life left in ruins.

Even if she would have to point a gun at him tomorrow, for this one moment, she wanted to forget the harsh reality in his embrace.

No, maybe it wouldn’t be so bad to stay trapped in this moment forever.

Sadly, such infinity would never be permitted.

The music, which lasted barely three minutes, would come to an end. And their night, too, would inevitably reach its limit. Whether they wished it or not, tomorrow’s sun would rise.

“If we’d met under different circumstances… do you think things would have turned out differently?”

Grace didn’t answer, but she believed they would have.

➤ Male Lead: Ian Turner – An assassin belonging to the Milan Security Bureau.

A human weapon, forged through countless drugs and seven relentless years of brutal training.

Once he escaped the research facility and stepped into the outside world, he realized something, That he could never be an ordinary man.

He observed people without rest, imitating them, and little by little, managed to wear the mask of a proper, well-mannered gentleman.

But if there was one thing he failed to learn, it was pleasure.

Swept away in waves of desire, when he finally opened his eyes, he found himself standing somewhere far too distant.

➤ Female Lead: Grace – A spy working for Ainkle’s Intelligence Bureau.

During the First Great War, while imprisoned in a detention camp, she was saved by Colonel Kyle Ashmore. From that moment, she vowed to dedicate her entire life to him.

To live for him, to become a spy for him, and to personally deliver to his hands the victory of Ainkle, which he desired most.

Even in a war where not a single step ahead could be predicted, she believed everything was moving without issue.

At least, until a man driven by blind, obsessive desire for her appeared.

And when that desire twisted into love.

The very foundation she had fought so hard to protect began to crumble.

➤ When to read: When you want to experience a grim love story between two people, destined to be enemies in the bleak 1940s wartime.