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 was gradually

was just

worth it to retrieve the dagger.

move my lips, feeling as if

on the mountaintop turned bone–chilling, piercing every inch of

my teeth tightly, my cheeks sore from

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

touched the ground.

rocks beneath my flesh felt like they were covered in sharp thorns, piercing me

had to gasp for air, trying to calm the humiliation and resentment in my heart.

arms, looking down

smirked, speaking coldly/yet contentedly, “You wretch, you

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

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

burst into laughter.

you the princess of the Blade Moon

But now… now you’re

mountaintop, like a

on my right shoulder, and

pressure caused my knees to sink further.

at me. “Look at how pathetic you are now! So pitiful, so laughable! Do you really think you’re worthy of competing

increased the

knees, and cold sweat beaded on my forehead.

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

myself to maintain a straight

chosen to forsake my pride and

dagger?” I looked up

and waved it

dagger hadn’t

so please give me

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

eagerly

let out

hand and threw the dagger off

“No-”

edge of the cliff,

it was too late.

fingertips, plummeting into the abyss, swallowed by the rushing sea, disappearing without a trace.

happened in a matter of

Avia’s sharp and

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

everything, consumed by one