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.

blood–soaked face, my inner resistance

just

worth it to retrieve the dagger.

feeling as if sharp knives were slicing

the mountaintop turned bone–chilling, piercing every

tightly, my

under Avia’s increasingly excited and smug gaze, I began to kneel.

touched the

they were covered in sharp thorns, piercing me

calm

arms, looking down at

coldly/yet contentedly, “You wretch,

nails dug into my palms, pain shooting through my

then used all my willpower to force my

burst into

you impressed? Aren’t you the princess of the Blade Moon

so proud? But now… now you’re

laughter echoed on the mountaintop, like a

stepping on my right shoulder, and menacingly said, “Kneel properly

external pressure caused my knees to sink further.

glared 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

through my knees, and cold

relished the sensation of having me beneath her foot, laughing grotesquely with red

teeth, forcing myself to maintain a straight posture.

chosen to

looked up at

pulled the dagger from her bag and waved it

dagger hadn’t suffered any

so please give me back the dagger now,” I said,

trash, do you really think I care? Since you want it,

out eagerly to take it.

out a

hand and threw the dagger off

“No-”

the edge of the

it was too

fingertips, plummeting into the abyss, swallowed by the

all happened in a matter of

sharp and arrogant laughter rang

for you. Diana, you don’t need

moment, I forgot everything, consumed by