Imprinted Life Novels & Stories

Jon carefully explained to his daughter the cycle of reproduction based on her age. "What if I am already imprinted to someone else?" Princess Ariya suddenly became curious. She sat straight as she looked at her father in front of her. "Ahm! What do you mean 'imprinted'?" Jon asked instead. "If I am already destined to someone!" she answered. "Sweetheart! Do you have a crush on someone in school?" Halley had found a way to change the topic that people in the car couldn't understand. Mate? Imprinted? Destined?

I can rule alone, not having to worry that my mate is still out there, looking for me as much as I’m looking for him. And maybe I’ll meet someone. Someone special, someone I can fall in love with despite not having a mate bond between us. I mean, before the veil between Crescent Falls and Eastonia fell, a lot of people in Eastonia did something called imprinting, which is the act of marking and pledging to be with each other forever. I think of Evander’s parents. Granger imprinted on Amanda, because as a fox, and the only fox at that, she was mateless. But from what I heard from my parents, Granger felt the mate bond with her regardless of if she could feel it.

Adara asked. “Kiran is the next born Alpha of our pack, and an Alpha doesn’t imprint on anyone but his true mate,” Karani said. “What’s imprinting?” Adara felt like an idiot. She knew nothing about this new life she had been thrust into. “Imprinting only happens to wolves. It’s a gift from the goddess Freyja showing you who you’re really meant to be with. It’s like finding air to breathe, your soul feels drawn to that person and everything in your life changes. That person becomes your universe. It might sound unbelievable now, but you’ll understand everything when you imprint,” Karani said.

In utter shock, she still wanted to know more. "An imprint is a lifebond mark. It is how us males choose a mate and once we do, it is permanent," he continued. "You can continue to dress up," he said as he finished the dressing of her deep cuts. *** She wanted to ask so much more about the life bond but was too scared of him

“What exactly are you all talking about? A hospital transfer is not some romantic tragedy.” Lucian turns slightly toward her. “It wasn’t just a transfer.” He pause. “It was an incident that affected emotional imprint formation.” Selene frowns. “Emotional imprint?” Lucian nods once. “In rare bonds, especially those tied to omega-aligned emotional resonance…” He pauses, choosing his words carefully. “…first contact creates imprint memory in both individuals.” I feel my chest tighten slightly at the phrase. Imprint memory. Darius exhales slowly. “And you’re saying ours was formed… then disrupted.”

She got up and gave me a hug. "It's all over. Live for yourself from now on." It was something so simple, even an outsider understood. And yet, it had taken me six whole years to finally wake up. Fortunately, it still wasn't too late.

“Yeah. They get it. And the vision—it happened just yesterday.” Imprinting was rare. It only really happened when two wolves who’d lost their mates found each other. Sometimes it was before they’d ever been mated at all. But the bond? It still had weight. Still hit hard. You could feel it in your bones. Smell it. Touch it. Not quite as overwhelming as the mate bond, but it was close. Dangerous close. The thing was, Mirabelle was never supposed to have a partner. That’s what made this whole thing even stranger.

I even paid her. That was when everything started to change. Leo still brought me my favorite desserts, but he would also bring an extra one for Ella, always more than mine. When Max went shopping for clothes, he would grab something for Ella, too. Somehow, it was always her perfect size. Little things like that kept piling up, so many that I stopped keeping track. They both wore bronze pins on their chests. I had carved them and put them on for them ten years ago. They never took them off.

I ask. “You can’t lie to me?” he asks, clearly surprised. He laughs and looks very relieved. “You imprinted back.” “What?” “That’s what we call it when we feel a blood bond with a human. Imprinting. Sometimes, often actually, it’s a one-way deal. Humans don’t imprint as we do. You fall in love…or a facsimile of love at least, but you don't imprint very often.” “A facsimile?” “A copy…a weaker version of what vampires call true love.”

She could feel his impatience with the thought. But what was imprinting? She had a flashback from the twilight movies where Jacob had ‘imprinted’ on the little girl in the last movie. Was it something like that? And what was the next step? She had wanted answers, but all she was getting was more questions! When Doctor Cayden spoke again, it was not with fear of the one who had just roared at him but with compassion. “We can’t imagine how painful it has been to fight it. My boy, especially since we don’t know how long it’s been happening, it is important to take things slowly.”