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.

my inner resistance was

was just kneeling.

it to retrieve

to move my lips, feeling as if sharp knives were

mountaintop turned bone–chilling, piercing every inch of my skin.

teeth tightly, my cheeks sore from the pressure.

smug gaze,

touched the ground.

were covered in sharp

to calm the humiliation

looking

speaking coldly/yet contentedly, “You wretch, you

dug into my palms, pain shooting through my

then used all my willpower

burst into

Diana, aren’t you impressed? Aren’t you the princess of the

proud? But

on the mountaintop, like a

right shoulder, and menacingly said, “Kneel properly for

caused my

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

increased the pressure on my shoulder.

knees, and cold sweat

me beneath her foot, laughing

forcing myself

I had chosen to

looked up at Avia.

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

your demands, so please give me back the dagger now,” I said, panting.

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

reached out eagerly to take it.

out a short, sharp

raised her hand and threw the dagger off the cliff!

“No-”

of the cliff,

it was too late.

dagger slipped through my fingertips, plummeting into the abyss, swallowed by the

a

sharp and arrogant laughter rang

you.

everything, consumed by one intense thought-