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.

blood–soaked face, my

just kneeling.

it to

move my lips, feeling as if sharp knives were slicing my throat with each. word.

bone–chilling, piercing every inch of

my teeth tightly, my cheeks sore from

increasingly excited and smug gaze, I

left knee touched

like they were covered in sharp thorns, piercing me to

air, trying to calm the humiliation and resentment in my heart.

looking down

wretch, you still

my palms, pain shooting through my brain as blood oozed from my

used all my willpower to force

burst into

you the

But now… now you’re noll

echoed on the mountaintop,

my right shoulder, and menacingly

caused my knees to

“Look at how pathetic you are now! So pitiful, so laughable! Do you really think

the pressure on my

and cold sweat beaded on my forehead.

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

forcing myself to maintain a

had chosen to

I looked up at Avia.

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

the dagger hadn’t suffered any

me back

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

eagerly to take it.

suddenly let out a

she raised her hand and threw

“No-”

the edge of the

it was too

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

all happened in a matter

sharp and arrogant laughter rang

for you.

moment, I forgot everything, consumed by one