We're in a Contract Marriage, But I've Imprinted - Chapter 37
Chapter 37
Translator: Effe
Editor: Yonnee
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I took the potion she gave me. I intend to use it on the day of my union with him.
Time passed quickly and that very day approached. After I drank the pheromone-enhancing potion before meeting him, I noticed that I was exuding more pheromones than I usually did.
It was certainly effective, but it was difficult to control because it was the first time I had an excess of pheromones.
I concentrated all my nerves to somehow pull back the pheromones before he came. Although it was slow, the pheromones seemed to be stabilizing little by little, so I felt relieved.
It felt as if time passed by slower while I was waiting for him. The setting sun felt so meandering that I wanted to cover it with the palm of my hand.
That’s how I hoped the night would come.
During this heat cycle, I wanted to cover him with my pheromones, even if only a little.
Because my otherwise weak pheromones could not even leave a single trace on the dominant alpha that was him.
Even now, my pheromones were incomparably weaker than his, but I wondered if the chances of being able to lather him with mine rose just a bit.
I was very excited at the thought of seeing Ian with my pheromone on him after today.
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#05_Misunderstandings start with trivial things
From the moment he woke up all throughout the time he went to work, Ian somehow felt differently than he usually did, like there’s something special going on.
Although he wasn’t showing it on his face, he was quite aware that he was excited.
When he opened his eyes in the morning, her face was the first thing that came to his mind. He tried to feel her pheromone in the tea he drank after eating.
It was obvious with the way that he kept getting the urge to go to the annex out of the blue. Even though he was going about his usual daily life, he was suddenly plagued by a compulsive need to check on her.
The image of her refusing to eat food that even a beggar wouldn’t eat out left him breathless.
The look on Melissa’s face as he entered the dining hall table was something he’d never forget for the rest of his life.
Eating was a basic human right, and she displayed her will to protect that fundamental part of her humanity by standing firm, yet her eyes had become reddened from her anguish.
And how could he forget about her pheromones?
They were normally weak, but at that moment, her pheromones felt so precarious that it felt as if they would soon go out like a candle in front of the wind.
His mind was filled with the singular thought of wanting to protect those fragile pheromones, to the point that he couldn’t even see anything else.
He stormed into the annex like a madman, though he drank tea together with her pretending nothing was wrong.
Then, he confirmed it with his own eyes.
Could someone else have bothered her?
Whoever dared to mock his omega would suffer a fate of no less than decapitation.
Only then did he seem to be able to escape from this curse-like obsession.
So that the fair and slender woman can safely stay in the annex.
He had to repeat the act of deceiving the people around him over and over again to be satisfied.
That aside, this was the day he had been waiting for. On this day, he would not have to hide his base instincts, and he would not have to pretend to be a gentleman.
He did not have to approach her pretending he didn’t know, didn’t have to pretend she did not belong to him. It was a time when no one would say anything even if he coveted his omega as if they were the only two people in this world.
The heat and rut cycle and the period of protecting his omega who may be pregnant.
It was a time for just the two of them, a time when no one else could interfere.
“Young Lord, shall we finish today with this?”
“Yes.”
Ian replied as he finished the signature on the last document.
He got up without delay, put on his jacket, and took the inducer that he had put in the drawer.
He headed for the annex with lighter steps than usual. As he made his way away from the main building, he had a belated question.
“It’s farther than I thought.”
Clearly, he had instructed Henry to have her stay in the annex, but he did not mean to assign her to such a secluded place.
Like the annex where his mother used to live, it was moderately far from the main building and had a luxurious exterior and interior enough to be used for receiving esteemed guests.
“I need to move her after this night.”
And he had to choose a maid he could trust and have her stay in the annex.
As he thought of the future plans in his head, he arrived at the annex. He had expected that the moment he grabbed the familiar doorknob and entered, the weak and feeble smell of grass would greet him.
But the scent that was waiting for him was not the scent he knew.
No, it was neither the same nor not the same.
The delicate scent of grass and wildflowers was suddenly replaced by the scent of rain-soaked lilies.
The pheromones, which he could usually sense only lightly, became thicker, headier. It felt exceedingly unfamiliar.
Upon entering the annex, the calm face suddenly became unpleasantly distorted.
“You’re here?”
Just then, a pale, flower-like face peeked out of the bedroom. Her face, which was more red than usual, lit up as soon as she saw him.
He felt as if he had witnessed a scene in which flowers were in full bloom. The scent that irritated his nose was exactly like that.
But it was strange.
He wondered where the emotions he had been feeling had disappeared, and only a feeling of discomfort remained in his head.
Ian, who had been obsessively watching Melissa as she cautiously walked up to him, opened his mouth when she stopped with just one step left.
“What is this.”
“…What are you talking about?”
“This. Your pheromones are vibrating right now.”
“Ah…”
She didn’t give much of an answer, but her sighs had the nuance of knowing the reason.
Unpleasant.
The pheromone he had been picturing since this morning wasn’t such an overt scent.
It should not have been the same kind of pheromones that vulgarly seduced his father, regardless of whether they had children, like his mother.
“Why are you like that?”
Ian, who was still staring at Melissa, who was still making a delicate face of not knowing why, burst into laughter.
“Ha, I was careless.”
“What?”
Yes, this is an omega.
Feigning to be weak, yet truly cunning. A being who knew how to use their weapons very well in order to keep an alpha tied to their side.
From now on, it was easy to imagine how much she would shake and hold him until a child would be born.
That’s why he drew a line with the contract from the beginning.
Yet here he was, being lured away by a misunderstanding until now.
The obsessive compulsiveness that had followed him from the morning, no, from that day onwards, evaporated just like that.
The things he couldn’t easily shake off when he tried so hard disappeared as if it had never even been there.
Melissa felt her heart plummeting as she watched Ian’s expression sink coldly with each passing second.
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