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

was just

worth it to retrieve

my lips, feeling as if sharp knives were

mountaintop turned bone–chilling, piercing every

my cheeks sore from the pressure.

increasingly excited and smug gaze,

knee touched the ground.

like they were covered in sharp thorns,

calm the humiliation and resentment in my heart.

crossed her arms, looking down at

contentedly, “You wretch,

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

slowly raised my right leg, then used all my willpower to force my

burst into laughter.

you the princess of

proud? But now… now you’re noll

on the mountaintop, like a demon’s roar,

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

caused my knees to

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

she increased the pressure on my

my knees, and cold sweat beaded on my forehead.

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

gritted my teeth, forcing myself to maintain

chosen to forsake

dagger?” I looked

pulled the dagger from her bag and waved it in front of me. I breathed a sigh of relief.

hadn’t suffered

please give me back the dagger now,”

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

reached out eagerly to

suddenly let out

her hand and

“No-”

lunged towards the edge of the cliff, trying to

was

my fingertips, plummeting into the abyss, swallowed by

a

Avia’s sharp and arrogant laughter rang out.

you. Diana, you don’t

everything, consumed by one intense thought-