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.

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

just

it to retrieve

my lips, feeling as if sharp knives were slicing my throat with each.

turned bone–chilling, piercing

clenched my teeth tightly, my cheeks sore from the pressure.

smug gaze, I began

knee touched

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

air, trying to calm

looking down at

“You wretch, you still have

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

leg, then used all my willpower to force my right knee to touch the ground.

burst into laughter.

you impressed? Aren’t you the princess

you so proud? But now… now you’re

echoed on the mountaintop, like a demon’s roar,

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

my knees

are now! So pitiful, so laughable! Do you really

she spoke, she increased the pressure on my

and cold sweat

having me beneath her foot, laughing grotesquely with red

forcing myself

hadn’t forgotten why I had chosen to forsake my pride

looked up at Avia.

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

the dagger hadn’t

give me back the dagger now,” I said,

you want it,

eagerly to take it.

then! Avia suddenly let out a short, sharp laugh.

hand and threw the dagger off the cliff!

“No-”

edge of the

it was too late.

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

all happened in a matter of seconds.

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

you. Diana, you don’t need to thank

that moment, I forgot everything, consumed by one intense