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.

my

just kneeling.

it to

as if sharp knives were slicing my throat with each.

the mountaintop turned bone–chilling, piercing every

teeth tightly, my cheeks

and smug gaze, I began

knee touched the ground.

they were covered in sharp thorns, piercing me to the bone.

for air, trying to calm the humiliation

looking

“You wretch, you

nails dug into my palms, pain shooting through my brain as blood

leg, then used all my willpower to force my right knee

into laughter.

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

you so proud? But now…

the mountaintop, like a demon’s

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

pressure caused my knees to

So pitiful, so laughable! Do you really think

she increased the

and cold sweat beaded

having me beneath her foot, laughing grotesquely with red

teeth, forcing myself to maintain

why I had chosen to forsake my

looked up at Avia.

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

dagger hadn’t suffered any damage.

fulfilled your demands, so please give me back the

Since you want

reached out eagerly to

Avia suddenly let out a short,

after, she raised her hand and threw the

“No-”

the cliff,

it was

my fingertips, plummeting into the abyss, swallowed by the rushing sea,

a matter

and arrogant laughter rang

you.

forgot everything, consumed by one