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    Summary

    There are loves that don’t save — only shipwrecks gentler than death.

    Mikasa has known their sting too soon.
    Beneath the varnish of youth and the silk of her silences, lies a girl who has never learned to be loved without pain.

    And then — there is him.

    A man who carries his ruin like a second skin, who hides his grief in the immaculate folds of restraint. He speaks little, but when he does, the world seems to hold its breath. In his gaze there is neither pity nor desire, only the quiet knowledge of someone who has seen too much, and still chooses to stand.

    When her chaos meets his silence, when her need to be loved meets his refusal to need, somewhere in that narrow space between tenderness and ruin, they will learn that salvation sometimes wears the face of another wounded soul.

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