Chapter 77. Marked

'Have sex with him,' Ariel replied.

My eyes bulged. 'What? Why are you thinking of that right now?'

'Because it's how you can use the mate bond to heal him,' she replied. 'When your bodies join and become one, you activate the healing power of the bond.'

'You're not joking, are you?'

'You've never heard of it?'

'Not really. I mean… I've heard things, but I thought people were exaggerating.' Some people made it seem like a mate bond was the answer to everything. Love, power, strength, illnesses. I was slowly finding out that maybe they were right.

'Well, they weren't,' Ariel told me. 'You don't think the bond is just about romance, do you? This is one of the reasons why werewolves with mates are considered stronger. It's also why high-ranking werewolves go to great lengths to find their fated mates. It's like having a trump c