The Luna Is Gone by Angelique Quinn

Chapter 164

Diana’s pov

“Where’s the dagger?” I asked.

“Don’t be so impatient. Didn’t I say, as long as you fulfill my demands, I’ll give you the dagger back?” The mountain wind tousled Avia’s hair.

She smiled, like a devil.

I took a deep breath, struggling to suppress the hatred and anger churning inside me.

“So, what are your demands?” Avia lowered her head, twirling her meticulously cared–for violet nails, her crimson lips curling slightly.

“First, hand me your phone.” I furrowed my brow, not understanding why she would ask, but I still handed her my phone.

“What about the unlock code?” she asked.

I recited a sequence of numbers.

I finally realized what Avia was up to.

After unlocking my phone, she went straight to the messages and deleted all the conversations between

me and her.

“I won’t give you a chance to complain to Nathan,” she smirked triumphantly.

I glanced at her, too disinterested to even engage in conversation.

After thoroughly inspecting my phone to ensure there was nothing incriminating, she tossed it back to

1. me.

“Do you have any other demands?” I asked after pocketing my phone.

Avia looked at me with a gleeful yet malicious gaze.

She slowly opened her mouth and said, word by word-

“Second, I want you to kaneel down and beg me.”

I wasn’t surprised by Avia’s request.

She had always detested me, seizing every opportunity to humiliate me.

Kneeling before such a vicious, calculating, and foolish woman was undeniably difficult.

of Ryley’s blood–soaked face, my inner resistance was gradually

was just

it to retrieve the

struggled to move my lips, feeling as if sharp knives were slicing my throat with each. word.

the mountaintop turned bone–chilling, piercing every inch of my

my cheeks

smug gaze, I began to

left knee touched

were covered in sharp thorns, piercing

to calm the humiliation

looking

contentedly, “You wretch, you still have

nails dug into my palms, pain shooting through my brain as blood oozed from my fingertips.

my right leg, then used all my willpower

into

Hahaha! Diana, aren’t you impressed? Aren’t you the princess of the

so proud? But now… now

echoed on the mountaintop, like

stepping on my right shoulder, and menacingly said,

my

at me. “Look at how pathetic you are now! So pitiful, so laughable! Do you really think you’re worthy of competing with me for Nathan? You despicable, detestable

increased the pressure on

my knees, and cold

relished the sensation of having me beneath her

my teeth, forcing myself to maintain a

forgotten why I had chosen to forsake my pride and kneel.

dagger?” I looked up at Avia.

the dagger from her bag and waved it in front

dagger hadn’t suffered

so please give me

of trash, do you really think I care? Since you want it, I’ll be kind

eagerly

then! Avia suddenly let out

raised her hand and threw the dagger off the cliff!

“No-”

of the

was too late.

slipped through my fingertips, plummeting into the abyss, swallowed by

in a matter of

and arrogant laughter rang

kindly disposed of it for you. Diana, you don’t need to thank

everything,