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.

my inner resistance

was just

to retrieve the dagger.

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

bone–chilling, piercing every

my teeth tightly, my cheeks sore from

Avia’s increasingly excited and smug

left knee touched

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

to gasp for air, trying to calm the humiliation and resentment in my

crossed her arms, looking down at

contentedly, “You wretch, you still have one

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

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

into laughter.

Aren’t you the princess

you so proud? But now… now

mountaintop,

lifted a foot, stepping on my right shoulder, and menacingly said, “Kneel properly

pressure caused my knees to sink further.

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

the pressure on my shoulder.

through my knees, and cold sweat beaded on

sensation of having me beneath her foot, laughing grotesquely with red eyes.

gritted my teeth, forcing myself to maintain a straight posture.

hadn’t forgotten why I had chosen

dagger?” I looked up at Avia.

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

the dagger hadn’t suffered

so please give me back the dagger

really think I care? Since you want it, I’ll be kind enough…” Avia handed

eagerly to

Avia suddenly let out a short, sharp laugh.

hand and threw the dagger off

“No-”

towards the edge of the cliff, trying to catch the dagger.

it was too

into the abyss, swallowed by the rushing

in a matter of seconds.

Avia’s sharp and arrogant laughter

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

that moment, I forgot everything, consumed