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

just

it to retrieve the

move my lips, feeling as if

mountaintop turned bone–chilling, piercing

my cheeks sore from

smug

touched the ground.

covered

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

her arms, looking down at me.

speaking coldly/yet contentedly, “You wretch, you still have one foot.”

through

all my willpower to force my right knee to touch the ground.

burst into laughter.

you impressed? Aren’t you the princess

But now… now you’re

on the mountaintop, like a

foot, stepping on my right shoulder, and menacingly said, “Kneel properly

external pressure caused my knees

Do you really think you’re worthy of competing with me for Nathan?

increased the

my knees, and cold sweat beaded on

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

forcing myself to

I had chosen to forsake my pride and

dagger?” I looked up at

her bag and waved it in front of me. I breathed a sigh of relief.

dagger hadn’t suffered

your demands, so please give me

really think I care? Since you want it,

eagerly

out a short, sharp

hand and threw the dagger off the cliff!

“No-”

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

was too

the abyss, swallowed by the rushing sea,

all happened in a

Avia’s sharp and arrogant laughter

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

that moment, I forgot everything, consumed by