“Jennifer Adams, daughter of Jeffrey and Michelle Adams, former resident of Coldspring, Texas, mate to Decebel Anghelescu, former Beta of the Romanian pack, now Alpha of the Serbian pack. We are the Fates and have called you to stand before us to honor your debt.” “I knew I shouldn’t have gone through that door,” she muttered under her breath. “Your life was to end at eighteen years of age. Your time on the earth was done.” “Are you kidding me?” Jen interrupted. “My life was—is just beginning. How can you say that at eighteen my time is done? I haven’t done anything. Don’t you have to have done something in order to be done?” “SILENCE!” All three voices reverberated in her head. “A simple 'shut it' would have sufficed,” she grumbled. “Perizada of the Fae interrupted your life cycle.

