Trapped in a Novel as the D-Class Alpha I Hated Most Chapter 177: Making Love... Last Night

The first sensation is dryness. My lips are cracked, my throat parched, my tongue thick and heavy in my mouth, as if I’ve swallowed cotton. Then the rest of my body wakes up, and sothing is wrong—terribly, inexplicably wrong.

Everything feels strange, too warm, too loose, like my bones have been replaced with sothing softer—sothing that doesn’t quite belong to .

My eyes open slowly, my eyelids aching, too heavy to lift more than a crack at first. I blink, forcing them wider, and morning light spills into the room—soft, golden, the kind of light that cos through expensive curtains in expensive hotels, filtered and gentle, ant to soothe.

The ceiling above is unfamiliar. Wrong. The wrong shade of white, the wrong texture, the wrong distance from my face.

I turn my head, and the room cos into focus around . Luxurious. Elegant. Sterile—the particular way hotel rooms always are, no matter how much money is poured into them. A painting on the wall I don’t recognize. Curtains I’ve never drawn.

Moon’s room.

I sit up too fast, my body protesting with a dull ache that seems to live in my bones. The sheets shift beneath , the blanket sliding down to pool around my waist. The air is cool against my skin, raising goosebumps along my arms.

Wait. Bare.

My waist is bare.

My body goes still. The world narrows to a single point of focus—the skin of my torso, exposed to the morning light, the pale rise and fall of my chest with each shallow breath. I’m completely naked beneath these borrowed blankets, this unfamiliar fabric against unfamiliar skin.

The blood drains from my face. Then rushes back twice as hot.

No. No, no, no. What happened last night?

What did I—what did Moon and I—

My heart slams against my ribs, a wild, panicked rhythm that I can feel in my throat, my temples, my fingertips. I try to rember, grasping at the fragnts of last night like smoke.

I fell. He caught . Then darkness. Nothing after. Just silence and shadows and a void where mory should be.

The door opens.

I yank the blanket up to my chin, clutching it with both hands, knuckles white. Moon steps inside, and the morning light catches him, haloing his blue hair.

He’s holding two mugs of coffee, steam rising from both in lazy spirals, the scent of fresh brew cutting through the thick silence.

He’s barely dressed. Loose pajama pants hang low on his hips, and that’s all—no shirt, his chest bare, his skin golden in the sunlight streaming through the window. His shoulders are broad, his stomach flat, the lines of his body drawn with an artist’s hand.

My eyes trace him without permission, cataloging every detail, and I hate that I notice. I hate that I can’t stop noticing.

He walks toward with unhurried grace, a soft smile playing on his lips, and offers a mug.

I don’t move. Don’t reach for it.

"Finally awake," he says, his voice warm, intimate, the voice of soone who has shared a room with another person through the night.

My voice cos out rough—scraped raw.

"What the hell is this?"

He blinks, all wide-eyed innocence, as if I’ve asked him a riddle he can’t quite solve.

"Honey, why are you so rude to this morning?"

Honey.

I glare at him, my voice sharp enough to cut glass. "Do you have so kind of death wish?"

He sets the coffee mugs on the bedside table with deliberate slowness, the porcelain clicking softly against the wood.

Then he lies down on the bed beside , settling onto his side like this is the most natural thing in the world. His head rests on one hand, his body stretched out beside like a cat in sunlight. Completely relaxed. Completely infuriating.

"Zyren."

His voice is lazy, unhurried. "You’re so selfish."

My voice is ice. "Give an answer. Why am I here, in your bed, without my clothes?"

His tone stays innocent, almost puzzled. "Because you collapsed last night. Don’t you rember?"

My patience snaps. "I know that. But—" The words catch in my throat, strangling . My face floods with heat, burning from my cheeks down to my chest.

"Where are my clothes?"

A slow smirk spreads across his lips, transforming his face. His voice turns smooth as silk, each word deliberate, weighted.

"Zyren."

He lets my na hang in the air. "Don’t play the victim." A pause that stretches, thick with implication.

"That’s my question."

My hands go cold, then hot, then cold again. "What do you an?"

He rubs the back of his head, feigning discomfort, a gesture so theatrical it would be comical—if I weren’t frozen in place. "Last night..." He pauses, savoring the mont. "You were the one clinging to . Saying, ’Moon, it’s so hot. I can’t stand it.’"

I snap, my voice rising despite myself. "Moon, stop this nonsense. I know you’re lying."

His smirk widens, his teeth white against his lips. "Are you sure? How can you be so certain I’m lying?"

I look away, unable to hold his gaze.

"Because you always—"

"Lie?" he cuts in, amused.

He laughs, low and warm, a sound that wraps around like smoke. "My baby." The endearnt drips from his lips like honey.

"I know you’re just pretending to be strong. Why not just accept the truth?"

My head snaps back toward him, fury and embarrassnt warring in my chest.

"Shut up."

I look around wildly, searching for my clothes, desperate to escape this room, this conversation, this impossible man who has turned my world upside down. I need to leave. I need to think. I need to breathe.

I start to stand, clutching the blanket around like armor.

"Give my clothes."

His hands catch my wrists. He pushes back down, and I fall onto the mattress with a soft thud that knocks the breath from my lungs. He leans over , his weight settling against my hips, his face inches from mine.

"Moon—get off —"

"No."

His thumb finds my wrist, tracing lazy circles on the thin skin there, featherlight, hypnotic. The touch sends shivers up my arm, against my will, and I hate that too. He leans closer, his lips almost touching mine, his breath warm against my mouth.

"After the night we had..." His voice is a whisper, a secret ant only for .

"After making love with last night..."

He pauses, letting the words hang in the air between us, heavy and devastating.

"Now you’re acting like an angry little bird. That’s not fair."

I stare at him. The words hit like bullets, each one lodging deep in my chest, impossible to dislodge.

Making love.

Last night.