We’re in a Contract Marriage, But I’ve Imprinted - Chapter 29

Chapter 29

Translator: Effe

Editor: Yonnee

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How do alphas know about omegas? I’m sure the author just wrote down the results of their research.

They would never know an omega’s true heart.

“Ah, my heart is a little relieved.”

However, her expression did not look very relieved.

It was as if she felt regret, as if I wasn’t the one she wanted to talk to about her inner feelings with. As though her insides felt suffocated, the way she tapped her chest felt like hitting a lump.

Mother was also like that often.

Could it be that this person had also imprinted?

Was that why she smiled, though it seemed like she was breaking out in a cold sweat?

I didn’t know it when I saw Mother, but when I saw Lady Nicola’s behavior, I saw something in common between the two of them.

At first glance, her face, which contained incompatible ambivalence, looked distorted and unnatural.

She was laughing happily, but it seemed like she was laughing, and she was angry at the same time. Her eyes were dark.

Mother was often like this.

‘Mom isn’t sad at all. I’m fine.’

While saying that… there were many times when she couldn’t breathe properly, in pain.

“You know. Did Ian give you living expenses?”

“…No?”

“Really? That can’t be, though? Oh, isn’t it possible that the chief handmaid is stealing it?”

My head couldn’t keep up with the sudden change of subject. After starving for two days, the food that I barely ate seemed to have already been used up by the tough conversation, and it became physically difficult.

Also, I couldn’t understand what she was saying. Why would Ian give me living expenses?

I don’t even go out, I just need to live on what the Duchy gives me.

I didn’t understand, so I couldn’t answer. I just stared at Lady Nicola, but she clapped her hands.

“I’ll figure it out for you. Nothing to worry about.”

“…Yes, thank you.”

I didn’t dislike her, but I wanted her to go back soon.

I was getting more and more nauseous. It seemed like it was because of the sweet pheromones that were vibrating from earlier.

Why did I just now know?

Did my head become stupid because I miss people?

Just like when I had foolishly visited the pond, I forgot the duality of people who had been in noble families for a long time.

She had been emitting nasty pheromones at me since earlier.

I was new to omega pheromone except for my mother’s, so I hadn’t thought that Omega would ignore it, so I found out too late.

Lady Nicola muttered as she looked at my face, complexion ashen due to her pheromones.

“What. You’re a recessive? But how could you receive the seed of a dominant alpha?”

Omegas were further divided into classes. Just like an alpha treats an omega.

Her words made me feel as if I had been hit in the back of the head. People were divided into alpha, beta, and omega classes, but I found out that there is a lower rank than that.

“……”

I couldn’t answer anything, but luckily the butler came to visit.

“Oh, Henry. It’s already this time, but you haven’t slept yet?”

“I came to pick you up just in case, but why are you still in such a shabby place?”

Henry’s words, which seemed to be concerned about Nicola, made my stomach twist even more. As the temporary owner of his shabby place, I was treated like an invisible person, he politely escorted Nicola and went outside.

I was then able to raise my body. After sitting for several hours, my legs faltered momentarily, but the two of them were already far away.

“G-Goodbye.”

I belatedly said my goodbye, but the lights were low, and only the dark and empty narrow road was visible.

“Ugh.”

Exposed to the hostile pheromones, I ended up having to regurgitate all of my food. And then I had this thought.

Why were people from noble families all weird?

It’s just…

Everyone was crazy. Of course, I would be no different if I lived with them.

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After Lady Nicola left, the chief handmaid stopped sending me strange food.

I was starving alone in this place, which looked so full of riches that I even doubted whether they were truly thinking of starving me to death.

However, the reason I didn’t visit the main building was because of my pride that I didn’t even know I had.

Or maybe it was because of fear.

I was afraid that if I went to the main house and saw Ian with Monica again, my heart that I was barely blocking it would flow on its own.

Unseemly jealousy towards Monica reared its head. But on the other hand, admitting that was tantamount to loving him.

I was so hungry that I couldn’t get enough energy and everything bothered me, so I sat on the single sofa in the living room and dozed off.

While doing so, the door to the annex suddenly opened. I lifted my head helplessly following the sound.

The person who opened the door without knocking and without manners was none other than the chief handmaid. She still glared at me with contempt.

“You’ll have to follow me for a second.”

The butler was the same, and the chief handmaid was the same. Maybe it’s Ian’s influence.

What’s the point of talking? Just being subject to their gazes and silent seething was enough to know that they were treating me as someone below them.

I didn’t even have the strength to argue with her, so I obediently followed her as she wanted. Even though I stumbled several times on the way because my body didn’t have enough strength, the chief handmaid didn’t help.

Even in the County, I saw a lot of people like the chief handmaid. Every time I ran into these people, I had questions.

Did I do a big mistake to them without even knowing it?

If not, why were they so hostile towards me?

Unless I had lost my memories, I don’t think I had done anything wrong to the Duchy’s chief handmaid, nor to the County’s employees.

My body was tired, so my thoughts flowed even more negatively. Dissatisfied with myself, I let out a small sigh.

Perhaps hearing my sigh, the chief handmaid suddenly raised her eyebrows and glared at me. But she didn’t say anything else. Just when I thought that was strange, the chief handmaid stopped herself.

I, who had followed the chief handmaid only by looking at her back, noticed belatedly that this place was the main building.

At that time, I remembered the two people laughing happily in the glasshouse.

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