Chapter 16. Masturbating to The Alphas

I couldn’t sleep.

My body felt hot, as if it were on fire. I was restless, every inch of me aching.

Two days had passed since I participated in the ritual, and the outcome wasn’t at all what I had expected. I had survived, walked out alive despite the fact that my head had been seconds from rolling onto the ground. But most of all, I had been given the gold I needed to afford my mother’s surgery. Thankfully, it was successful. My mother was stable for now, though the procedure only slowed the spread of the wolfsbane, it wasn’t a cure.

But now…

The reason for my restlessness had nothing to do with any of that. It was something far more embarrassing, something I didn’t even want to admit to myself.

It was the unbearable ache between my legs.

I slowly pulled the blanket off my body and stared at my soaked panties. My face burned red, and I bit my bottom lip when I realized I was wet… again. Even without touching myself, even without any real sexual t