[KIYOMI]
"Yes, I'll be your wife," Sakura said in earnest, a light blush coating her cheeks. She had dreamt of such a day, when things would not just be surface-level anymore. She hoped and waited, and now it was happening.
Oh, but the mad queen was excited and glad that this was finally happening. That the realm would finally stop looking at her Erasthai like a conquest and not the love of her life.
Of course, she could decide to announce their bond and no one would question it, but Sakura had always wanted to go through the proper channels. To make it feel real, to make it a normal interaction, not something that was forced by a contract.
That was why she had annulled the contract the moment she had heard that Kiyomi had come to hunt her down in Doiwa. When her beloved had come back home in a fit of rage.
She had cancelled it then.
Because Sakura saw the love of her life, not the Kimura woman who was so ready to take her out, regardless of what it would do to the good doctor.
