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.

Ryley’s blood–soaked face, my inner

was just

to retrieve the dagger.

as if sharp knives were

the mountaintop turned bone–chilling, piercing every inch of

my teeth tightly, my cheeks sore from

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

knee touched the

were covered in sharp thorns, piercing me to the

for air, trying to calm the humiliation and

arms, looking down

“You wretch, you

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

leg, then used all my willpower to

burst into laughter.

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

But now…

echoed on the mountaintop, like a demon’s

right shoulder, and menacingly

external pressure caused my knees to sink further.

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

she spoke, she increased the pressure on my

and cold sweat beaded on my forehead.

me beneath her foot, laughing grotesquely with red

teeth, forcing myself to maintain

forgotten why I had chosen to forsake my pride

dagger?” I looked up at Avia.

talking about?” Avia pulled the dagger from her bag and

the dagger hadn’t suffered

demands, so please give me back

I care? Since you want it, I’ll be kind enough…” Avia

out eagerly to

suddenly let out a short,

she raised her hand and threw

“No-”

of the cliff, trying to

it was too

into the abyss, swallowed by the rushing

all happened in a matter

me, Avia’s sharp and arrogant laughter rang out.

you. Diana, you don’t need to

that moment, I forgot everything, consumed by one intense