His Mate, My Spy
“The land that our village sat in was …special. Blessed by the gods with the same kind of magic our bodies carried. Below it lay rare minerals and precious stones.
There was a pause before he continued, “After everything happened,” he said, “A mining company found it.”
Emily’s fingers tightened again.
“They took the land,” Zane added. “Started digging into it.”
“Mining,” Damien said.
Emily frowned.
“For what?”
“Resources,” he replied. “The ground carried things that were valuable to them.”
Zane’s jaw tightened slightly.
“What we had… they turned it into something ugly,” he said.
Emily’s gaze dropped, her thoughts moving quickly again.