He really should have looked in the basement more thoroughly when he bought this place. He knew that now. If he had, he would have noticed that false wall, he would have noticed that there was a low but perceptible hum that was not tied to any machinery or appliances in the house.

However, hindsight is hindsight and he could do nothing about it now. All he knew was that somehow whatever was behind that wall was triggered when he and a client for one of his machine designs were talking about some spec changes and both were pulled down to the basement by that strange device and this was now the result.

While she was, of course, quite unhappy at the situation, he felt considerably different. As he went to walk back up the steps, he took a moment to enjoy the look and feel of those sexy legs just before he walked up the steps. Sure, he'd try to figure something out, but what could he really do? That thing was more advanced than anything he had ever seen and he doubted anyone would even want to approach that thing knowing what it had done to him and her, and even if they did managed to examine the machine... no, he doubted that there was a fix for this. They'd likely be this way from now on. Too bad for her, but not bad at all for him.