Kingdom Hearts fic: Connections of the Heart - Chapter 1

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Summary: In order to buy a political alliance that could get her officially crowned, Princess Kairi has to bring a partner on a diplomatic mission. Her fiancé, Sora, doesn't care for the spotlight, and is terrified of messing the opportunity up for her. They come up with the perfect plan - their mutual friend, Riku, can pose as her partner for the duration of the mission. He's far more well-acquainted with the social expectations for the royal consort, and is close enough to her to make it seem completely natural.
In the interests of ensuring they don't compromise the friendship between any of them, they set a few ground rules. Rule No. 1: displays of affection in public only.
Handling themselves in public is surprisingly easy... it's turning the affection and attraction off when in private that becomes the problem.
And as the stakes of the mission itself grow higher, that's far from the only inconvenient complication...

This was written for unconventionalcourtship 2021. The goal of the challenge is to write a fic based on the summary of a romance novel (allowing for adjustments to suit the canon and ship you're writing for).
The novel I picked is a Mills & Boon novel called Wife for a Week by Kelly Hunter. The original summary is behind the second cut.

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