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

was just

worth it to retrieve the

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

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

clenched my teeth tightly, my

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

touched

rocks beneath my flesh felt like they were covered in sharp thorns, piercing me to the

to calm the humiliation and resentment in my

her arms, looking

smirked, speaking coldly/yet contentedly, “You wretch, you still have one foot.”

palms, pain shooting through my brain

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

into laughter.

Diana, aren’t you impressed? Aren’t you the princess of the Blade Moon Pack?

proud? But now… now

on the mountaintop, like

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

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

increased the

cold sweat beaded on my

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

my teeth, forcing myself to

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

I looked up

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.

hadn’t suffered any

your demands, so please give me back the

Since you want it, I’ll be kind enough…” Avia

out eagerly to take it.

Avia suddenly let out a short, sharp laugh.

and

“No-”

the

it was too late.

dagger slipped through my fingertips, plummeting into the abyss, swallowed by the rushing

a

sharp and arrogant laughter rang

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

moment, I forgot everything, consumed by