Tormentor Mine Novels & Stories

Kayla swallowed painfully at the tone he used to talk to her and the murderous look he gave her. "You're talking as if you are a better individual when you're nothing but a goal digger. There's more to life than trying to associate yourself with someone like me. There's more to life than fake ass, fake boobs, ridiculous makeup and kinky sex. I honestly don't know what I saw in you but I'm glad I was sensible enough to let you go."

Tyler pushes the drink in front of me and I chuckle taking a small sip. "I am here to have fun, maybe if you are free" I wink, and the idiot smirks biting his bottom lip. "Of course, baby. Have I ever said no to you?" I laugh taking another sip from the drink. Every time I am out here to hunt, I take it as my last day. It's not guaranteed that I will make it out alive, especially when most of the men I hunt are constantly dangerous. I have nothing to live for anyway. "So, is he here, yet?" I get to business and he nods pointing upstairs to the VIP section.

Afterward, they would cool off. I had already spent a whole day hanging around the road. Typical-you'd have to be completely bonkers to go visit Torrin. It wasn't just a backwater place; it was the ultimate middle of nowhere. There was no way to leave, either by land or by water, nothing to gain except for fish. As for the silver, we and the locals kept our mouths shut, as we could easily imagine what would happen otherwise. We'd get lots of rabble, a huge tax, and then the mine would belong to the king-and we would have to work there for free, but thrice as much. Nope, not saying anything made way more sense.

Inside, its core revealed spiral-like veins that seemed to emit a dim, sinister glow. She knew exactly what this mineral was. It was called Thanorite, a "dead" mineral once found near the Aetherfall Mountains. It had the ability to release toxins slowly in damp environments. Once it contaminated a water source, it would not only poison the water but seep into the soil, affect crops, animals, and eventually, people. The contamination was slow and hard to detect, but once it began, it could not be stopped.

Dasha now was nothing like it used to be, and Wilbur knew that it was time Eweyn changed their perspective on the people of Dasha. The hotel owner, Punter, introduced the mine to Wilbur. "This is the once-famous Tuttle Mine. It might look tiny, but this mine used to hold the most copper ore in the world. Despite the fact that mining here is now banned, rumor has it that there's still plenty of unmined copper down there. There's at least half of what used to be there, which all of Eweyn should be proud of."

"It’s a Magnetic Limpet Mine (a bomb that attaches to a ship's hull using magnets, timed to explode or be triggered remotely)." "Thorne doesn't want to find us," Elara realized, her blood turning to ice. "He just wants to make sure we never leave this canyon." The mine began to beep—a slow, rhythmic sound that echoed through the hull. Beep. Beep. Beep. "How long?" Elara asked. "Sixty seconds," Jun said, his voice cracking. "We can't restart the engines in time to shake it off," Kazimir said, his face grim. "The magnetic lock is too strong."

He poured me one of the family's favorite snakebite drinks and sat next to me while we continued our conversation. "We owned the Dig Deeper mining company, which had many tunnels that we used to illegally transport people and smuggle goods. The DICTator Hotel is a haven for those fleeing the authorities. The rest of our company was merely a front for the real deal." He patiently explained everything to me.

“The mine.” “Fuck,” Jaden expressed, remembering exactly what I just had. “Whoa, whoa, what mine?” Max pressed. “Sutton’s father brokered a deal on some land in human territory for Anders,” I said. “That’s how Sutton and her family became involved with him in the first place. Soloman and I both thought that was strange, so he looked into it. Anders is mining the land. Mining mercury.” “Well, I guess we’ve answered that question,” Max said sardonically.