Another round of mumbling erupted in the room once more after the Prince's words. He, after all, did have a point. The mate bond only increased as days pass even without the two parties doing anything. It would have been better to simply reject a mate bond when you first meet than to wait for months in hope, only to then face rejection. A werewolf could even go insane with depression as the connection would have started to build in that short time.
The rejection process wasn't easy. If two beasts didn't want to mate and mark each other, then they had to find separate people each to do it with. If only one marked another while the other remains unmated, the mate pull would still be effective on them. When both souls have completely be bounded to different ones, only then does the mate pull
