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.

thinking of Ryley’s blood–soaked face, my inner resistance was gradually suppressed.

was just kneeling.

to

I agree,” I struggled to move my lips, feeling as if sharp knives were slicing my throat with

on the mountaintop turned bone–chilling,

teeth tightly, my cheeks sore

Avia’s increasingly excited and smug

touched the

they were covered in sharp thorns, piercing me

trying to calm the

crossed her arms, looking down at me.

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

nails dug into my palms, pain shooting through my brain as blood

willpower to force my right knee to touch

burst into

aren’t you impressed? Aren’t you the princess

But now…

on the mountaintop, like

shoulder,

external pressure caused my knees to sink further.

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

spoke, she increased the pressure on

spread through my knees, and cold sweat beaded on

of having me beneath her foot, laughing grotesquely with

teeth, forcing myself to maintain a

forgotten why I had chosen to forsake

dagger?” I looked up at

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

hadn’t suffered any

so please give me back the dagger now,” I

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

eagerly to take it.

out a short, sharp

hand and threw

“No-”

of the cliff, trying to catch the dagger.

was too

my fingertips, plummeting into the abyss, swallowed by the rushing sea, disappearing without a

a matter

and arrogant laughter

for you. Diana, you don’t need

that moment, I forgot everything, consumed by one intense