We're in a Contract Marriage, But I've Imprinted - Chapter 15
Chapter 15
Translator: Effe
Editor: Yonnee
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So I asked him after I signed the contract.
What’s an imprint?
I saw his golden eyes slightly widened at my question, then returned to their normal state. Instead of answering, he sent me a book.
He sent me other books as well, so my daily life had recently become composed of eating, walking on the nearby path, and reading.
Even now, after taking a walk, I was sitting on a single sofa. I hadn’t read a book about imprinting after putting it off until now, but today I decided to read it.
For some reason, I was reluctant to open the book because I was nervous. I had been procrastinating while looking at other books for no reason, but I thought it would be good to know.
The book on imprinting was well explained in detail, but the writer was likely an alpha. It was probably a book published for alphas to read, not for omegas.
Imprints were divided into three types.
Two-sided imprint, one-sided imprint, and forced imprint.
The imprint itself was romantic in a way. In particular, the two-sided imprint was somehow ecstatic.
The fact that even when you die, you can die together could be said to be terrible from other’s point of view, but it came to me a little differently.
Although it was a suicide, Mother did not leave Father. If so, I think she would have been less lonely. Even though they couldn’t have a funeral together.
Focusing on the fact that this is a love that even death can not separate, I thought that both sides could prove their love.
And I also liked that this was something that betas can never imitate.
However, it was painful just reading the contents of the one-sided imprint. This was because most of the subjects who had imprinted one-sidedly were omega.
For omegas who imprinted one-sidedly, their minds would gradually collapse if they would not receive their alpha’s love or receive their pheromones.
It was written that there were many who chose to escape rather than die. I briefly thought Mother would be in this category.
Could it be that Mother had a one-sided imprint?
However, after turning the next page, I learned that there was a type of imprint containing an alpha’s greed that was more blatant than the one-sided imprint.
Forced imprint was an imprint that only an alpha could do, and it was explained that it was done by forcibly biting the omega’s neck during their coupling.
It was written in detail that forced imprint was possible only when their heat or rut cycles matched with each other, or after soaking omega in a pheromone shower. It’s done not only through becoming one in bed.
I turned the page with trembling hands.
It was stated that one of the characteristics of forced imprinting were the alpha’s teeth marks. Omegas who successfully received an imprint have teeth marks left like tattoos from an alpha bite.
I was trying to read the book to the end, but in the end I just covered the book. I felt sick to my stomach.
“U-Urk…”
I felt like all the food I had eaten was coming back up, so I hurried to the bathroom.
I was able to come to my senses only after I completely emptied everything.
I wanted to withdraw my earlier comment about the two-sided imprint as romantic.
I regretted and reflected on the fact that I had briefly thought that Mother’s death was beautiful.
The closest person to me was Mother. So there was no way I, who saw everything about Mother, could not have been unaware of the teeth marks on Mother’s nape.
I’ve seen it since I was very young. I once asked her a question. What was Mother’s expression like back then?
Maybe she looked sad. Was it the sadness of not seeing her imprinted alpha, or was it the sadness of feeling sorry for her situation?
“Wretched brute…”
Father left Mother alone after forcibly imprinting her, and only later called her to the County. I remembered what I had read in books.
It was written that even if they were forcibly imprinted, they would show the same symptoms as one-sided imprints.
Regardless of whether they imprinted first or got forcibly imprinted upon, if the imprinted omega could not receive their alpha’s pheromones and love, they would gradually collapse.
It was kindly written that any omega would end up taking their own life, unless it was a two-sided imprint.
Ah—
My dear Mother.
Did she get revenge?
Or, did she win his love?
If the means she chose to win Father’s love was suicide…
That’s so sad.
“Huuuh, huu.”
Tears flowed non-stop. Tears poured out as if the ducts were broken.
Even if she committed suicide for revenge, it was sad to me. For whatever reason, I ended up losing my one and only family member.
“Ha… It must have been difficult to say these words directly.”
Ian, the man who told me about imprinting. It may have been due to his determined temperament.
Like the other alphas, he had no intention of forcibly imprinting me, so he told me not to imprint on him.
The fact that what he needed was just an alpha heir, not me, was neatly put into the contract. It was like telling me who the woman he loved was.
“…Yes. That’s better for me, too.”
One part of my heart broke when I realized he was using me to create a perfect marriage with Monica.
I swore I would never love him.
It was the conclusion I came to after thinking over and over again that I was also using him while I am here..
“That’s right. I’m using him, too. I won’t die, Mother…”
I muttered as I recalled Mother’s shabby funeral. My future was bleak, but I thought that somehow there would be a way.
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Ian tended to wake up early in the morning. He had never felt physically limited, so he only slept for about three hours.
After coming back from the training ground wielding his sword for a morning exercise, he showered and changed his clothes.
He typically started the day by looking at simple documents with the breakfast prepared in the meantime.
But today was a little different than usual. Instead of paperwork, he carefully examined the purple and pink bottles on the silver tray.
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