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 gradually

just kneeling.

it to retrieve

feeling as if sharp knives were slicing my

wind on the mountaintop turned bone–chilling, piercing every

clenched my teeth tightly, my cheeks

increasingly excited and smug gaze, I began to kneel.

knee touched the ground.

they were covered in sharp thorns, piercing me to

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

arms, looking down at me.

“You wretch,

into my palms, pain shooting through

used all my willpower to

burst into laughter.

you the princess of the

But now… now you’re

laughter echoed on the mountaintop, like a demon’s

my right shoulder, and menacingly said, “Kneel

caused my knees to sink

are now! So pitiful, so laughable! Do you really think you’re worthy of competing with me

she spoke, she increased the pressure on

and cold sweat beaded

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

myself to

chosen to forsake my

I looked up at Avia.

Avia pulled the dagger from her bag and waved it in front

dagger hadn’t suffered any

please give me back the dagger now,”

Since you want it, I’ll be kind

eagerly to

let out a short, sharp

raised her hand and threw the

“No-”

lunged towards the edge of the cliff, trying to catch the

was

slipped through my fingertips, plummeting into the abyss,

a matter of seconds.

me, Avia’s sharp and

you. Diana, you don’t need

that moment, I forgot everything, consumed by