“No… I won't.”
“Oh, petal, I wasn't asking. You WILL marry me.”
****

Dr. Kiyomi, a neurosurgeon rogue lycan, lives in & never leaves the human hospital— the safest place for her. That’s until a high-profile mafia surgery goes wrong and she’s blamed for it despite being on leave. 

Suddenly the limelight is on her, forcing her rare last name back into the memories of people who have long wanted her dead — the Bogdan Lycans. As if that isn't enough, the Ivanov Russian mob is after her with vengeance in their hearts. 

Scared, Kiyomi leaves the hospital pretending to be a night-shift male nurse — which works, only for her to be kidnapped at the hospital’s entrance, by the cruel lycan queen’s guards who drag her to the queen Sakura’s human home.
— — — 
Sakura Watanabe; the soulless crazy queen known to screw up everyone for fun. She ruins everything she touches and sucks the life out of everyone around her. She is bad, cruel, and a menace who does whatever she wants, however, and whenever she wants it.

When she hears of Dr. Kiyomi’s misfortunes, she is curious to see what will make that lycan break, and orders that Kiyomi be brought to her, so she can sign the infamous Sakura contract that always leaves the signee dead, dead and dead. 

What Sakura doesn't factor in is the fact that the woman who walks through her door is her soulmate. And even worse is the desire she gets to protect Kiyomi. Not one to relent in the hands of fate, Sakura forces Kiyomi to sign the oppressive contract.

What happens when Sakura's heart starts beating for Kiyomi, and she goes after everyone who hurt her soulmate? Will she cancel the contract and embrace love, or will she stay the stoic soulless queen with nothing to live for?

And even better, how long can Sakura fight fate?

Not at the familiar voice and scent, no. 


Because if she did and there was no one here, she would be offering Tsuki and the team more reasons to bench her when she wanted to go with them. She didn't want to stay in Doiwa while the only people she knew on this side went off to fight in her name. 


All she wanted was Sakura and she was not going to stay back. 


She was not going to be the one who was left to guard a kingdom she had just been formally inducted into. 


She wasn't scared of them, no, but the memories of letting herself be buried alive had stayed haunting her for a long time. The way she had almost died with soil in her lungs. The way her head had hurt was worse than the bruises she had endured. 


Kiyomi had been sure she would never be able to pick up a scalpel or a ten-blade again, and that was something that still horrified her. Because without Elif, medicine was all that she had. 


Chapter 481 - She Was Home… Always Had Been