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 was

just

was worth it to

as if sharp knives were slicing my throat with each.

bone–chilling, piercing every inch of

my teeth tightly, my

and smug gaze, I

touched the

they were covered in

to gasp for air, trying to calm the humiliation and resentment in my heart.

crossed her arms, looking down

smirked, speaking coldly/yet contentedly, “You wretch, you still have one foot.”

my palms, pain shooting through my brain as blood

used all my willpower to force my right knee to touch the ground.

into laughter.

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

so proud? But

echoed on the mountaintop, like a demon’s

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

my knees to sink further.

you are now! So pitiful, so laughable! Do you really think you’re worthy of competing

she increased the pressure on

knees, and cold sweat beaded on my forehead.

me beneath her foot, laughing grotesquely with red

myself to maintain

I had chosen to

dagger?” I looked up at Avia.

about?” Avia pulled the dagger from her bag and waved it in front

dagger hadn’t

give me back the dagger now,” I said,

I care? Since you want it, I’ll

reached out eagerly to

let out a short, sharp laugh.

her hand and threw the dagger

“No-”

towards the edge of the cliff, trying

was too

abyss, swallowed by the

happened in a

me, Avia’s sharp and

it for you. Diana, you don’t need

that moment, I forgot everything, consumed by one intense