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.

thinking of Ryley’s blood–soaked face, my inner

was just

to

I agree,” I struggled to move my lips, feeling as if sharp knives were slicing

mountaintop turned bone–chilling, piercing every inch

my cheeks sore from the

under Avia’s increasingly excited and smug gaze,

knee touched

felt like they were covered in sharp thorns, piercing me to

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

crossed her arms, looking down

“You wretch, you

into my palms, pain shooting through my brain as

my right leg, then used all my willpower to force

burst into laughter.

impressed? Aren’t you the princess of the Blade Moon

But

the mountaintop, like a demon’s

my right shoulder,

external pressure caused my knees to sink

so laughable! Do you really think you’re worthy of competing with me for

the pressure on my shoulder.

spread through my knees, and cold sweat

having me beneath

forcing myself to maintain a

hadn’t forgotten why I had chosen to forsake

looked up at

bag and

hadn’t

give me back the dagger now,” I said, panting.

care? Since you want it, I’ll be kind enough…”

eagerly to take

let out a short, sharp laugh.

raised her hand and threw the dagger off

“No-”

edge of the cliff, trying to catch

it was

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

all happened in a matter of

and arrogant laughter rang

of it for you. Diana, you don’t

that moment, I forgot everything, consumed