"Jana?" the voice asked, "Jana?"

"Erm, hi," Matei began uncertainly.

"Who are you?" the voice replied aggressively, "Why do you have Jana's phone?"

"I'm Matei," Matei began nervously, "I'm a friend of Jana's."

"A friend of Jana's?" the voice questioned, "Jana has never mentioned anyone called Matei before."

"I'm a friend of TJs," Matei said quickly, "And also a friend of Jana's. Are you Rhydian?"

The voice on the over end of the phone sighed loudly, "Yes. Now tell where Jana is."

"Jana had an accident," Matei began, "She's at my house in Gateshead, Newcastle. 13 Glenn Gardens. Look Rhydian, your mum, Ceri, I think she might be able to help Jana-."

"Wait! What do you mean an accident?" Rhydian interrupted. Matei could hear a girl calling out something.

"She fell," Matei said with a shaky voice, "She was climbing up to a window and she fell."

"Is she?" Rhydian said with a chocked voice, "Is she going to die?"

Matei brushed the tears out of his eyes, "No, she's going to live but she's got a bad injury to her head. Segolia just wants to wait and see what happens, but I can't just..."

Rhydian growled, "Jana's like a sister to me. You can tell Segolia that I'll be there soon, and they'll have me to talk to. Do you have a pen?"

Matei grabbed a pen and notepad from the nearby table, "Yes."

"The address is Moonshadow Cottage, East Lane, Stoneybridge," Rhydian replied as Matei wrote furiously, "There is a train from Gateshead that runs to Stoneybridge but its a good 3km from the house."

"I'm a wolfblood," Matei said simply, "And for Jana I'd..."

Rhydian sighed, "If you're some lousy boyfriend who almost ended up getting her killed I'll..."

The girl called out again, but Matei couldn't make out what she was saying.

"Look, just go that address," Rhydian said snappily, "I'll be seeing you later anyway."

Matei heard a whimper behind him and turned to see Jana slowly waking up. She looked at him in confusion and reached out for her phone. Matei passed it to her, glad that he no longer had to speak because his guilt was beginning to consume him again.

"Rhydian?" Jana began croakily.

"Jana!" Rhydian exclaimed, "Don't worry we'll be in Gateshead soon. Maddy's parents have just booked up the flights and we're leaving just now. It will only be few hours. And who's this Matei?"

"Just a friend," Jana replied quickly, "You can trust him."

"A friend you never told me anything about?" Rhydian asked suspiciously, "We'll talk about it when I arrive. Just rest now."

"I will," Jana reassured him, "Bye."

Jana smiled at Matei in thank you. Too tired to say much else.

Matei sat beside her on the bed, brushing a strand of hair away from her warm forehead. Jana blushed and looked away shyly.

"It's ok," Matei said, "I just need to go somewhere for a while. To Stoneybridge, to go get Ceri. She'll help you. I promise I'll be back before you even know it."

Matei noticed Jana looking in the direction of the doorway, and Matei looked up to notice Katrina standing there holding a tray of food.

"Your foster mum insisted on you both having a good lunch," Katrina said placing the tray down gently on the bed, "And Segolia said that Jana has to have a high protein diet, hence the meat feast."

Jana looked at the tray of food ravenously-black pudding, bacon, egg, sausages-all her favourites-, but a nausea spread throughout her a moment later and Matei and Katrina registered her look.

"Jana, are you ok?" Katrina asked flustered, "It's the morphine, isn't it? Dr Whitewood said that nausea is common. I'll just go and get her."

Matei looked at Jana with wide eyed concern, she was so pale now and shaky too, "Jana, please."

"Matei," Jana said with a tired voice, "Just get Ceri, please."

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Matei rang the doorbell again and fidgeted nervously, hoping that they weren't out. What on earth would he do if they were?

The door burst open to reveal a tall, dark haired man, with tan skin and a comedic air about him.

"So you are Matei?" Gerwyn asked with curiosity, "Rhydian said you were coming. Come in, Ceri is just preparing everything. We'll leave as soon as she is ready."

Matei walked into the main living room where a woman with long brown hair and kind brown eyes was sitting arranging various bottles and jars which were spread out before her.

Ceri looked up at Matei curiously, sniffing the air gently, "We can trust him. Rhydian was just being overprotective."

"Of course," Gerwyn said, with some uncertainty. Jana and Rhydian were like brother and sister, and inevitably Gerwyn felt that he should be a father to Jana too. The idea of Jana hanging around with boys like Matei...

Ceri sniffed the air again, "You've spent too much time in the city. Your senses are still dulled. You smell Jana's scent and his, but they are not separate."

"You don't mean?" Gerwyn said with a cheeky smile.

"Not now," Ceri snapped, "What did the Segolia people say?"

"A broken arm," Matei answered, "A lot of cuts and bruises, and, and... Some swelling and bruising to her brain."

Gerwyn cussed loudly, "How on earth?"

"It was all my fault," Matei replied, bursting out crying, "Jana turned up in the middle of the night upset, so I jumped out of my window to go talk to her. But I didn't have my key and instead of doing the sensible thing and knocking I decided we should climb back up. We'd reached the porch roof and then Jana decided to climb up first, but she slipped... I'm so sorry, I'm so so sorry, I'm so sorry."

Ceri walked over to the young boy and hugged him tightly, "We can still help her, now. And when Jana is healed more then I'll tell you something you need to know. For now just understand that Jana needs you and you need her. She's needs her alpha. She needs you to be her alpha. I'm ready to go."

Gerwyn nodded, as Ceri and Matei followed him to the car.

"I need to be strong for her," Matei answered, "Why don't you hate me?"

"If you knew what I know," Ceri replied, "And saw what I can see. You'd know that Jana couldn't be safer when she's around you."

Matei shook his head, "That's not true. I almost killed her."

Ceri shook her head angrily, "Don't ever say that! Don't ever think like that! She needs an alpha now Matei. You need to be strong for her."

"Ceri," Gerwyn said cautiously, "I agree. But now is not the time nor the place. Where to?"

"13 Glenn Gardens," Matei replied.

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"I saw what Matei did," Katrina said, helping Jana to sit up a little. Her head spun from the movement and she still wasn't sure if she could stomach food.

Jana nodded understandingly, and instantly regretted it as pain shot through the back of her head. She winced and Katrina gave her a concerned look.

"If he ever does anything," Katrina replied, "I'll... He can't think that just because you're injured that he has you at his mercy or whatever. He's spent practically all day up here with you. If Matei ever hurts you..."

"He never would," Jana said weakly, "I can't explain, but I know now that he never would."

"Do you like him?" Katrina asked in surprise, "Because I thought you like TJ."

Jana smiled, "TJ's a friend. Matei is... More. I like Matei. It feels good to say out loud."

"Have you said it to him yet?" Katrina asked, "Because you know how many relationships never happen because of poor communication."

Jana smiled, ignoring the pain, "Matei and I, we don't exactly talk about our feelings much. But I know what Matei is feeling, just as much he knows what I'm feeling. We don't need to say anything to know that we mean a lot to each other."

There was a word for that, Jana thought to herself, but it was not a word to be used in front of humans. Could Matei be that person?

"Jana you look flushed," Katrina answered, "I swear Matei's trying to cook you with all these blankets. He's gone completely insane. I heard him reading to you earlier- you know Jeffries terrible book."

"Matei likes it," Jana replied, "Says he wants Jeffries to write a sequel."

Katrina laughed, "Matei is a man of mystery, isn't he? I never had him down as a book nerd. And he's a real gentlemen too, always buying drinks for you when we're at work, and when you're on shift he just follows you around with like a lost puppy. The way he looks at you, it's so cute. I just worried that he had this dark side, I worried what might happen. But if you're sure then... Well you should just ask him out."

Jana blushed, "Matei has a dark side, but it's not what you think. He lost someone really important and he doesn't like talking about it."

"I know his parents died in a fire," Katrina answered.

Jana smiled, "Other than that. Matei is all light. He's just misunderstood really, because he's quiet and broody. And I will talk to him about liking him. I think he likes me too."

"I can tell," Katrina answered, "He is obsessed but in a kind of Romeo and Juliet type way. Just don't do what those two did and get married after barely knowing each other."

But I know his heart by heart, Jana thought to herself, as cringe worthy as it sounded. There was no way she was just going to marry anyone but she knew Matei incredibly well.

Jana nodded.

"Now, food," Katrina replied, "You should really eat something."

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TJ growled menacingly as he heard the conversation from where he sat on the stairs. So Matei had stolen Jana's heart, well he had to stop Matei from breaking it pieces. Jana was already injured because of him. Why couldn't Jana have just gone to him instead? The none of this would have ever happened.

It was true that TJ didn't fancy Jana. He only really liked Selina. But Jana was his alpha. At least he knew what appropriate behaviour around his alpha looked like. Maybe Matei needed to be taught where the line was...

Katrina burst from the room above, panic stricken, crying violently.

TJ jumped up immediately, trying his hardest not to vein up.

Because he knew what Katrina was going to yell next.

That little heart beat he'd gotten so used to hearing had just gone silent.

Jana was gone.

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