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 resistance was gradually suppressed.

was just kneeling.

worth it to retrieve

lips, feeling as if

turned bone–chilling,

my cheeks sore from

increasingly excited and smug gaze, I began to

knee touched the ground.

rocks beneath my flesh felt like they were covered in sharp thorns, piercing me to

had to gasp for air, trying to calm

her arms, looking down

“You wretch, you still

pain shooting through my brain as blood

slowly raised my right leg, then used all my willpower to force

burst into laughter.

you the princess of the Blade

proud? But

mountaintop, like a

my right shoulder, and menacingly said,

pressure caused my knees

glared at me. “Look at how pathetic you are now! So pitiful, so laughable! Do you

spoke, she increased the pressure

and cold sweat

of having me beneath her

gritted my teeth, forcing myself to maintain

why I had chosen to forsake my pride and

dagger?” I looked

what you’re talking about?” Avia pulled the dagger from her bag and

hadn’t

demands, so please give me back

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

reached out eagerly to take it.

out a

and threw the dagger off the

“No-”

of the cliff, trying to catch the

was too

plummeting into the abyss, swallowed by the rushing

all happened in a matter of

sharp and arrogant laughter rang out.

disposed of it for you. Diana, you don’t need to

everything, consumed by one intense thought-