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

was just kneeling.

to retrieve

my lips, feeling as if sharp

wind on the mountaintop turned bone–chilling, piercing every

my cheeks

smug gaze, I began to kneel.

knee touched the ground.

covered in sharp thorns,

gasp for air, trying to calm the humiliation

looking down at me.

wretch, you still have

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

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

into

you the princess of the Blade Moon

But now… now

laughter echoed on the mountaintop, like a demon’s

on my right shoulder, and

caused my knees to sink further.

me. “Look at how pathetic you are now! So pitiful, so laughable! Do you

increased the pressure

spread through my knees, and cold

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

gritted my teeth, forcing myself to maintain a straight

had chosen to forsake my pride and

looked up at

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

dagger hadn’t suffered any

so please give me back the dagger now,” I

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

reached out eagerly to take it.

Avia suddenly let out a short, sharp laugh.

after, she raised her hand and

“No-”

the edge of the cliff, trying

it was too late.

into the abyss, swallowed by the rushing sea,

all happened in a matter

Avia’s sharp and arrogant laughter

it for you. Diana,

forgot everything, consumed by