Hook, Line & Sinking (Completed)

35. Mettle

Feels like it's been awhile even though I'm right on schedule! My toddler was sick this weekend so things probably just FELT like forever xD.

Enjoy the new update!

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Mettle

Three days after the news that the Berylia had disappeared and we still had no sightings of the missing Corenths. George and Josh had made it to the McLaren home and word was that George was heavily concussed but on the mend. I hadn't seen either of them yet so far and wasn't sure if I wanted to. Dev and Thomas were with them just to keep an eye out, nobody was willing to fully trust them right now.

From what I understood, Mitch had only today been grudgingly allowed to accompany Dev. Not surprising to find out that Dev could get as protective over his boyfriend as Matt was over me. It was clearly a trait that ran in the family.

I was currently pacing back and forth across the patio at the side of the pool at my own home. Matt sprawled in a deck chair behind me, Noah in another one across from my boyfriend. Last but not least, Orly and Mariana shared a chair on the other side of the pool; affording them a little privacy so they could do that crazy-in-love-routine of theirs. Cuddling and whispering at each other.

When my pacing brought me close to Matt again, he hooked my leg with his foot so I came tumbling into his lap (luckily avoiding falling into the pool). "Eek!" Which had both Noah and Matt laughing at my expense. Then Matt settled me across his legs. "Calm down Dani Darling. If they make a move they make a move, if not, just try to enjoy the afternoon. It's summer, it's too hot to do all that pacing of yours."

Man had a point of course, didn't mean I knew what to do with myself. I felt far too hunted, too on edge, waiting for that damn other shoe to drop. "It's just, tonight's a full moon. We'll have to all gather at the Moonfell, what if they decide to try something then?" I said, voicing my biggest worry. It would be the first time we'd have to all gather in one place.

You'd think there would be safety in numbers but at the same time... None of us would want to risk the effects of the moon, but they might. If that happened, Noah and Thorne were the only ones able to take action but they couldn't follow them underwater.

"It's going to be alright," Matt said firmly, but I could see the same worries on his face. He still hadn't been able to get hold of any of his other navy buddies and Fletcher, the one he had been able to reach was still stuck in Melbourne.

I'd gotten to know Noah over the past three days as a level-headed, calm guy with a knack for calming everyone. Now he spoke in that pleasant voice of his the same reassurances Matt had just given me and instantly I felt calmer. "Thanks," Matt sighed, aware he'd used his ability to make me feel better.

When Matt's phone rang I jumped a little, watching Matt's face intently as he answered the call. I could hear a male voice on the other side but not what they were saying but Matt's normally tan face went almost completely white. My stomach tied itself into knots, worrying about who could be on the phone with him, what could have been said to cause that reaction.

As the call disconnected he turned his dark eyes on me with the bleakest expression I'd ever seen in them. "Matt," I said, "What is it?" His eyes slid to Noah who'd sat up straight and leaned our way, and then to his brother and Mariana who'd approached and stood arm in arm with grim expressions on their faces.

"That was Dave," he said, confirming what we'd all suspected. Though I felt tension ratchet up inside my body even more at the mention of the name. Matt's bleak expression turned back on me, and I fully expected him to say that the Corenths had his parents hostage or Dev and Mitch maybe.