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

was just

worth it to retrieve the

to move my lips, feeling as if sharp knives were slicing my throat with

mountaintop turned bone–chilling, piercing every

my teeth tightly, my

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

knee touched

covered in sharp thorns, piercing me to the bone.

trying to calm

arms, looking down

smirked, speaking coldly/yet contentedly, “You wretch,

through my brain as blood oozed from

used all my willpower to force my right knee to

into laughter.

aren’t you impressed? Aren’t you the

But now… now you’re

on the mountaintop, like a demon’s

stepping on my right shoulder, and

my knees to

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

the

my knees, and cold sweat

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

forcing myself to

chosen to forsake my pride

dagger?” I looked up at Avia.

this what you’re talking about?” Avia pulled the dagger from her bag and waved it in front of me. I breathed a sigh of relief.

dagger hadn’t suffered

please give me back

really think I care? Since you want it, I’ll

out eagerly to

suddenly let out a short, sharp laugh.

hand and threw

“No-”

lunged towards the edge of the cliff,

it was

dagger slipped through my fingertips, plummeting into the abyss,

a matter of seconds.

me, Avia’s sharp and arrogant laughter rang

of it for you. Diana,

everything, consumed