I Accidentally Imprinted On The Wolf Duke (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 82

When Chloe first started working at the Duke’s mansion, she claimed that her mother had collapsed at the time she was supposed to take her medicine, making the suppressant’s effect weaker. But even before the imprinting, he hadn’t been able to scent her at all. Of course, after imprinting, he became so intoxicated by her scent he couldn’t think straight.

In any case, it was nearly impossible for a wolf shifter not to scent a tiger shifter—and even more absurd to become intoxicated by that scent.

Ever since ancient times, when the hierarchy had been firmly established after a long war and the wolf clans acknowledged the tiger clans’ superiority, hatred toward the tiger clans had been passed down among wolf clans like genes. The two races especially clashed. The relationship between wolves and tigers was even worse than that between wolves and lions—so deeply adversarial that it could be called their oldest natural enmity, so intense that merely brushing against each other’s scent became unbearable.

Yet instead of repulsion, he’d felt comfort—meaning that, despite his failure to recognize his own feelings due to her male disguise, he had been powerfully drawn to her from the very beginning.

Still, he didn’t bother correcting her mistaken belief. The sweetness of her possessive gaze and gestures toward him—believing she loved him first—was far too potent to resist, making it impossible to reject the temptation to let her keep misunderstanding.

Of course, regardless of his personal satisfaction, the current situation—him, an Alpha, being imprinted on the tiger shifter princess—was far from entirely positive.

To him, Chloe was absolutely the one and only woman, but it would take time for other wolf shifters to accept a tiger shifter as the Alpha’s mate.

They would eventually come to accept it, understanding there was no choice once imprinting had occurred.

Naturally, if Chloe’s child turned out to be a shifter—and specifically a wolf shifter rather than a tiger—it would make winning over the wolf shifters much easier, but that wasn’t something he could control. Right now, he didn’t even want to think that far ahead.

After all, the most serious problem wasn’t the wolf shifters’ negative feelings.

Chloe was clearly reluctant to talk about herself in detail. She seemed uncomfortable about something. Yet he deliberately ignored her discomfort and coaxed the necessary information from her—even about Klein’s death.

Succession struggles within Tigrium were a recurring issue.

Unlike wolf shifters, tiger shifter royalty often remarried repeatedly until producing a tiger shifter heir. This process led to all sorts of complications, and what happened to Chloe’s mother was far from uncommon.

In any case, should the King of Tigrium learn of Chloe’s existence, he would never let her live. Thus, her identity as a tiger shifter had to remain an absolute secret. He would mobilize every wolf shifter to protect her—the Alpha’s chosen mate—but it was best never to place her in danger in the first place.

Though he’d previously felt relieved knowing tiger shifters possessed bodies that didn’t break easily, he now felt a chilling anxiety that she could be torn apart by tiger cubs at any moment.

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