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

just

worth it to retrieve the

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

the mountaintop turned bone–chilling, piercing every inch of

my cheeks

increasingly excited and smug gaze, I began

touched the

were covered in sharp thorns,

air, trying to calm the humiliation and resentment in

crossed her arms, looking down at me.

contentedly, “You wretch, you still have

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

right leg, then used all my willpower

burst into laughter.

Hahaha! Diana, aren’t you impressed? Aren’t you

so proud? But now…

the mountaintop,

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

pressure caused my

Do you really think

increased the pressure

spread through my knees, and cold sweat beaded on

clearly relished the sensation of having me beneath her foot, laughing

my teeth, forcing myself to

why I had chosen

looked up

about?” Avia pulled the dagger from her bag and

dagger hadn’t

your demands, so please give me back the dagger now,”

a piece of trash, do you really think I care? Since you want it, I’ll be kind enough…” Avia handed the dagger to me.

out eagerly to take it.

then! Avia suddenly let out a short, sharp laugh.

her hand and threw the dagger off

“No-”

edge of the

it was

plummeting into the abyss,

all happened in a matter of

me, Avia’s sharp and arrogant laughter

you. Diana, you don’t need

forgot everything, consumed