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.

thinking of Ryley’s blood–soaked face, my inner resistance was gradually

just

worth it to retrieve the

agree,” I struggled to move my lips, feeling as if sharp knives were slicing my throat

on the mountaintop turned bone–chilling,

teeth tightly, my cheeks sore from the

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

touched

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

calm

looking

wretch, you

palms, pain shooting through my brain as blood oozed

willpower to force my

burst into

Aren’t you the princess

But now…

echoed on the mountaintop, like

a foot, stepping on my right shoulder, and menacingly said, “Kneel properly for me!”

external pressure caused my knees to

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

spoke, she increased the pressure on my shoulder.

and cold

sensation of having me beneath her foot,

myself to maintain a straight posture.

I had chosen to forsake my pride

looked

the dagger from her bag and waved

hadn’t suffered

demands, so please give me back the dagger now,” I said,

piece of trash, do you really think I care? Since you want it, I’ll be

out eagerly to take it.

suddenly let out

after, she raised her hand and threw the

“No-”

the cliff, trying to catch the dagger.

was too

plummeting into the abyss, swallowed by the rushing sea, disappearing without a

in a

me, Avia’s sharp and arrogant

it for you. Diana, you don’t need to

that moment, I forgot everything, consumed by one intense thought-