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.

face, my inner resistance was

just kneeling.

was worth it to retrieve the dagger.

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

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

tightly, my

Avia’s increasingly excited and smug gaze,

knee touched

my flesh felt like they were covered

air, trying to calm the humiliation and

arms, looking

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

nails dug into my palms, pain shooting through my

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

into

Aren’t you the princess

proud? But now…

the mountaintop, like a demon’s roar,

stepping on my right shoulder, and menacingly said, “Kneel

caused my knees to

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

she spoke, she increased the

through my knees, and cold

sensation of having me beneath her

my teeth, forcing myself

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

dagger?” I looked up at Avia.

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

dagger hadn’t suffered any

so please give me back the dagger now,”

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

reached out eagerly to

Avia suddenly let out a short,

she raised her hand and

“No-”

edge of the

was too late.

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

happened in a matter of

Avia’s sharp and arrogant laughter rang out.

for you. Diana, you

moment, I forgot everything, consumed by