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.

face, my inner

was just kneeling.

to retrieve the dagger.

move my lips, feeling as if sharp knives

bone–chilling,

my teeth tightly, my cheeks sore from

excited and smug gaze, I began

touched

covered in sharp thorns, piercing me

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

looking down at me.

contentedly, “You wretch, you still have one

pain shooting through my brain as

my right leg, then used all my willpower

burst into laughter.

you the princess of the Blade Moon

so proud? But

on the mountaintop,

on my right shoulder, and menacingly said, “Kneel

caused my knees to sink further.

So pitiful, so laughable! Do you really think you’re worthy of competing with me

she spoke, she increased the pressure on my

through my knees, and cold sweat beaded on

of having me beneath her foot, laughing grotesquely with red eyes.

teeth, forcing myself to

forgotten why I had chosen to forsake my

looked up

pulled the dagger from her bag and waved it in front of me. I breathed a sigh of

hadn’t

me back the dagger now,”

care? Since you want it,

out eagerly

suddenly let out a short, sharp laugh.

after, she raised her hand and threw

“No-”

the cliff, trying to catch

was too

dagger slipped through my fingertips, plummeting into the abyss, swallowed by the rushing sea, disappearing

a

me, Avia’s sharp and arrogant laughter rang

it for you. Diana, you don’t need to thank me.”

I forgot everything, consumed by one intense thought-