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

was just

to retrieve the

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

on the mountaintop turned bone–chilling, piercing every inch

tightly, my cheeks

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

touched

like they were covered in sharp

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

arms, looking down at

“You wretch, you

into my palms, pain shooting through my brain as blood oozed from my

used all my willpower to force my right knee to

into

you impressed? Aren’t you the

proud? But

laughter echoed on the mountaintop,

my right shoulder,

my knees

pitiful, so laughable! Do you really think you’re

she increased the pressure on my shoulder.

cold sweat

the sensation of having me beneath her

forcing myself to maintain a straight posture.

hadn’t forgotten why I had chosen to forsake my pride and

dagger?” I looked

you’re talking about?” Avia pulled the dagger from her bag and waved it in front of me. I breathed a sigh

dagger hadn’t suffered any

give me back the dagger now,” I said,

do you really think I care? Since you want it, I’ll

eagerly to take

suddenly let out a short,

after, she raised her hand and threw the dagger off the

“No-”

the edge of the cliff, trying to catch the dagger.

it was too

plummeting into the abyss, swallowed

all happened in a matter of seconds.

sharp and arrogant laughter

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

everything, consumed by one intense