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.

Ryley’s blood–soaked face, my inner resistance was

was just

was worth it to

I agree,” I struggled to move my lips, feeling as

the mountaintop turned bone–chilling, piercing every inch of

my

excited and smug gaze, I began to kneel.

touched

beneath my flesh felt like they were covered

trying to calm the humiliation and resentment

arms, looking down

coldly/yet contentedly, “You wretch, you still have

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

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

burst into laughter.

impressed? Aren’t you the princess of the Blade Moon

proud? But now…

on the mountaintop, like a

my right shoulder,

external pressure caused my

So pitiful, so laughable! Do you really

the pressure on my shoulder.

and cold

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

forcing myself to maintain a straight

I had chosen to forsake my

I looked up

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

the dagger hadn’t suffered any damage.

me back

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

eagerly

suddenly let out a short,

hand and threw the dagger off the

“No-”

lunged towards the edge of the cliff, trying

it was

my fingertips, plummeting into the abyss, swallowed

all happened in a matter of

Avia’s sharp and arrogant laughter rang out.

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

everything, consumed by