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

just kneeling.

it to

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

on the mountaintop turned bone–chilling, piercing every inch of my

teeth tightly, my

increasingly excited and smug gaze, I began

touched the

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

gasp for air, trying to calm the humiliation and resentment

her arms, looking down at me.

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

palms, pain shooting through my brain as blood oozed from

my right leg, then used all my willpower to

into

you the princess

proud? But now…

on the mountaintop, like a demon’s

my right shoulder,

my

laughable! Do you really think you’re worthy of competing with me for Nathan? You despicable,

increased the pressure on my

knees, and cold sweat beaded on

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

gritted my teeth, forcing myself to maintain a

forgotten why I had chosen to forsake my pride and

dagger?” I looked

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

the dagger hadn’t suffered

please give me back the

really think I care? Since you want it,

eagerly to

let out

and threw the dagger off

“No-”

lunged towards the edge of the cliff, trying to

it was

my fingertips, plummeting into the abyss,

a matter

and arrogant laughter

it for you. Diana,

moment, I forgot everything, consumed by one intense thought-