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 inner resistance was

just

worth it to retrieve the

lips, feeling as if sharp

turned bone–chilling, piercing every inch of my

clenched my teeth tightly, my cheeks

under Avia’s increasingly excited and smug gaze, I began to

touched the ground.

covered in sharp thorns, piercing me to the bone.

calm

looking down

wretch, you still

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

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

into

impressed? Aren’t you the princess

But

laughter echoed on the mountaintop, like a

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

my knees to sink

now! So pitiful, so laughable! Do you really think you’re

she increased the pressure on my shoulder.

knees, and cold sweat beaded

having me beneath her foot, laughing grotesquely

my teeth, forcing myself

forgotten why I had chosen to forsake my pride

looked up at

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

dagger hadn’t suffered any damage.

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

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

eagerly to take

suddenly let out a short, sharp

raised her hand and threw the dagger

“No-”

of the cliff, trying to

was

fingertips, plummeting into the abyss, swallowed by the rushing sea, disappearing

in a

Avia’s sharp and arrogant laughter rang

kindly disposed of it for you. Diana, you don’t need to thank me.”

everything, consumed by one intense thought-