We’re in a Contract Marriage, But I’ve Imprinted - Chapter 16

Chapter 16

Translator: Effe

Editor: Yonnee

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On the silver tray were not just the bottles, but also a small card.

He picked up the card and read the contents quickly.

It was a heat cycle and a rut cycle inducer he had ordered separately.

He had no intention of coupling with an omega while fully conscious of it. If necessary, he would not hesitate to cut out every moment of it from his memory.

House Bryant had a very dirty custom.

The custom of not handing over the household’s successorship unless to an alpha.

Also, if there was no successor, they could not inherit the dukedom.

So Ian had to find the omega he despised so much. He did, but it was hard to find an omega even if he overturned the whole Empire.

Ian was annoyed at not being able to find one when he needed it most, but he understood why the number of Omega was shrinking.

As they were harassed and looked down upon, of course they would decrease.

Even the one-sidedly imprinted omegas all took their own lives. Alphas did not hesitate to push omegas into the fire.

Of course, betas could not be said to be at fault.

Thinking in an altruistic sense, omegas were indeed pitiful beings. But in reality, the most greedy beings were also omegas.

Omegas were those who would do anything to get the attention of the alpha they imprinted on. Even if it was their own child, if they could use it, they would use it all.

The wounds he sustained as a child never healed. It was none other than his mother who called him aside and intentionally hurt him.

His mother deliberately pretended to be hit by someone to get her alpha’s attention.

However, his father, who was seldom interested in his mother, showed little reaction to his mother’s wounds.

Then, by chance, Ian was injured when he was young.

His father saw his wounds and went on a rampage. Not because he was affectionate towards Ian, but because someone had dared to hurt the heir to House Bryant.

His father did not know how his mother, who lived in the annex, found out about the large reaction. But after that, she started leaving small scars on Ian’s body on purpose.

People find everything difficult at first. Clearly, he remembered that his mother also began to abuse him with a fearful face, but later she had a more and more casual face.

An alpha’s extraordinary memory was a bit annoying at times like this.

With the child at the forefront, his mother moved into the main building instead of the annex. His mother, who gained strength from him, became more and more involved, saying that she could not leave her hard-earned son alone.

His father, a recessive alpha, could not completely disown his mother, a dominant omega who gave birth to a dominant alpha.

So his father left his mother as is. Being annoyed was the nature of not paying attention, so in a way, it was a fairly predictable reaction.

In fact, he wondered if his mother took advantage of that.

He had thought about that once, after he had grown a bit.

“Inducer…”

Ian glanced at the bottle and put it down with an annoyed gesture. Having gone through rut cycles before, he didn’t want to go through it without deliberately taking an inducer, but the fact that he had to rub his skin against someone was the most terrifying.

In addition, he hated himself for having to deal with his sexual desire as he was reduced to only his instincts.

He didn’t just hate omegas. In fact, the subgender that he hated more than omegas were alphas.

Betas tended to respect alphas first. Ian was skeptical, although he did not know why they viewed alphas as superior to betas in terms of physical strength and intelligence.

Betas didn’t know— just how low and beast-like alpha’s were.

Alpha’s were basically greedy and had strong dogmatic tendencies, so it’s difficult for them to live in harmony with others. Also, they were well aware of their own pride, so they would treat those around them like chess pieces.

In terms of emotions, they also lacked empathy, so they couldn’t express anything other than the basic emotions they had acquired.

Ian’s manners, which were consistently praised by young ladies and noblewomen, were also something only learned. He did not hand over a handkerchief or help a fallen woman out of pity for them.

Ian thought of Monica as he drank the strong black tea.

In fact, he wasn’t very impressed when he first met Monica.

He had been repeatedly abused by his mother since he could not even remember, and he had bad feelings with women that he could get a seizure.

However, since the person he admired was her grandfather, he felt more familiar with Monica than the other young ladies.

Then he met Monica every day, and as the three of them played together with Alex, he was closer to her than any other woman.

He had such a woman, so he had no intention of marrying another noble lady.

The only person that deviated from his plan was Melissa. He was trying to get an omega he didn’t know where possible. Because he didn’t want to feel uncomfortable.

However, he did not know that there would be no other omegas, so he had no choice but to pull in Melissa. Unlike the previous Count, the current Count Rosewood was a greedy person.

Ian had to pay a fortune to get Melissa.

“How I knew she was an omega…”

He thought of his wife, shaking and saying things with such hardship in the carriage.

When he first saw her, she looked as shy as a single iris. It was a memory from his childhood, but it was vivid. It was the first time he saw an omega other than his mother, so it came to his mind more vividly.

Her flushed cheeks, her eyes were sparkling with curiosity and anticipation. The sparkling eyes were beautiful, shining like amethysts.

Well, all the omegas he saw couldn’t be compared with any betas in terms of appearance.

Because of her suspicious appearance, he deliberately spilled pheromones. Sure enough, he immediately noticed the gaze flying at him as soon as she smelled his pheromone. That’s how he recognized her as an omega.

But he couldn’t smell her pheromones.

He saved Melissa from drowning because he decided that, if she was an omega, it would be a waste to let her die. Monica bothered him for a long time while trying to figure out why exactly Ian had saved Melissa, but he kept quiet about it this whole time.

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