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.

Ryley’s blood–soaked face, my inner resistance was gradually suppressed.

just kneeling.

to retrieve the

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

bone–chilling,

tightly, my cheeks sore from the

excited and smug gaze, I

left knee touched

rocks beneath my flesh felt like they were covered in sharp

trying to calm the humiliation and

crossed her arms, looking down at me.

contentedly, “You wretch, you still have one

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

used all my willpower to force my

into laughter.

impressed? Aren’t you the princess of the Blade

But now… now you’re

on the mountaintop, like a demon’s

shoulder, and menacingly

caused my knees

“Look at how pathetic you are now! So pitiful, so laughable! Do you really think

the pressure on my shoulder.

spread through my knees, and cold

beneath her foot, laughing grotesquely

gritted my teeth, forcing myself to

had chosen to forsake my pride and kneel.

dagger?” I looked up at Avia.

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

dagger hadn’t suffered

please give me back the dagger now,” I said, panting.

think I care? Since you want it, I’ll be kind

reached out eagerly

let out a short, sharp laugh.

she raised her hand and

“No-”

lunged towards the edge of the cliff, trying to catch

it was too late.

through my fingertips, plummeting into the abyss, swallowed by the rushing sea, disappearing without

happened in a

me, Avia’s sharp and

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

I forgot everything, consumed by one intense thought-