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always had a cell signal everywhere but the caves.
    Meg headed straight for 27 th and Sewell and spotted his Charger. She pulled in right behind him and parked. Visitation to the Quindaro Ruins was by appointment only, so she was surprised to see lots of cars and people with cameras. Even a bus.
    Dread suddenly bloomed hot and sour in her stomach, and she ran. There was something wrong with Marcus. She could feel it. Meg didn’t stop to think about what it meant, this link between them. All she could do was react.
    She used her Fury strength and speed to bypass the mortal security measures—moving too fast for the security guards or the cameras to catch her. She moved too fast to even be aware of the landscape, her muscles stretching and shifting in response to some unknown directive in the primal part of her brain that carried her forward to Marcus Kage.
    Of the myriad caves that burrowed into the land along the Missouri River, Meg knew exactly which one he’d gone to. The knowledge had come to her with surprising ease and surety, but she was unwilling to recognize in her conscious mind how she could do such a thing, what it meant for her and Marcus.
    As fast as Meg had moved to get there, now inside the cave that fervor abandoned her, leaving only the dread that wound around her body like a boa constrictor. It started in her gut, squeezed her ribs tight around her heart and constricted her throat. She couldn’t breathe, couldn’t force herself to move forward.
    Her eyes focused on one thing. Long, angry gashes in the stone of the cave wall. Five deep grooves that looked like the slashing of claws…
    Meg’s imagination exploded with nightmarish visions of dark things ripping their way through stone and metal to run free.
    This was where he chained himself up.
    Megaera swallowed hard. She’d wanted to push him tonight, wanted to see his beast. Now she’d have the chance. Meg was terrified, but her Fury nature wouldn’t let her run. It wouldn’t let her do anything but see this through to the end. She’d never seen a Lycanos Change.
    Why had he come to chain himself so early? It was still morning.
    She finally crept forward, the scents of the cave heavy in her nose. It smelled like water, freshly turned earth and dark, mossy places that had their own particular indescribable scents.
    And wild animal.
    For all intents and purposes, it was an animal den.
    Yet, when she emerged into a large cavern, it was nothing like an animal den.
    The scene would have been more at home in a modern research facility. The walls and floor of the cavern were polished white and looked to be marble. Machines with dials and levers lined those walls, a giant screen and desks with three computers and processor towers were inside a bright metal cage. Megaera guessed it was painted with blessed silver. There were several hospital beds, each in its own cage on the far wall, with wires and different machines hanging limp and quiet inside. They fueled her already hyperactive imagination with images of experimentation, ala The Island of Dr. Moreau .
    Especially since Marcus made no use of any of it, but rather had positioned himself beneath several sets of chains that hung from the ceiling of the cave.
    Methodically stripping off his clothes, he didn’t turn around, but she could tell by the way his shoulders stiffened and his muscles flexed in his back that he knew she was there. She was held rapt by the smooth glide of his golden skin as he moved, bit her lip hard enough to draw blood when she saw the scars on his back from her nails.
    She’d marked him, indeed.
    Her fingers fluttered up to her neck where he’d bitten her. She didn’t have to look or even touch the skin to know she bore his mark.
    Double shit .
    “Yes, little Fury. We’re fucked.”
    He smoothed his slacks down his strong thighs and Meg’s breath hitched in her chest. By Athena, he was a beautiful male. She wanted him again.
    Marcus spun around. His eyes had already