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

just kneeling.

worth it to retrieve the

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

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

tightly, my cheeks

Avia’s increasingly excited and smug

left knee touched the

felt like they were covered

for air, trying to calm the humiliation and resentment in my

arms, looking

“You wretch,

my palms, pain shooting through my brain as blood

my willpower to force my right knee to touch

burst into

you the princess of

But now… now

the mountaintop, like a

my right shoulder, and menacingly

my knees

how pathetic you are now! So pitiful, so laughable! Do you really think you’re worthy of competing

spoke, she increased the pressure on

cold sweat

beneath her foot, laughing

forcing myself to maintain

hadn’t forgotten why I had chosen to forsake my pride

dagger?” I looked up at Avia.

talking about?” Avia pulled the dagger from her bag and waved it in

hadn’t suffered

me back the dagger

you want it, I’ll be kind enough…” Avia

reached out eagerly to take

let out a short,

after, she raised her hand and threw the dagger

“No-”

edge of the

was too

plummeting into the abyss, swallowed

happened in a

Avia’s sharp and arrogant laughter

you. Diana,

I forgot everything, consumed by