The Gold Collection: Taming The Argentinian: A Taste of the Untamed / The Untamed Argentinian / Taming the Last Acosta. Susan Stephens

the piano lid down, narrowly missing her fingers.

      ‘What are you doing?’ she exclaimed, hugging herself defensively. His rage was buzzing around her like a swarm of angry bees.

      ‘What am I doing?’ he demanded hoarsely. ‘Get away from the piano!’ he roared as she ran her fingers along the edge of the lid with concern, feeling for damage. ‘Get away from the piano, Grace.’

      She was incapable of moving anywhere, and could only sit, stunned, wondering what had happened to her gentle lover from last night.

      He couldn’t believe Grace was still seated at the piano when he had insisted she must move away. His rational brain warned him that he was half mad with anger, grief, guilt, and that all of these were compounded by his concern for Grace, but the other part of him—the dark side that had once driven him to desert those he loved when he should have stayed to save them—said she must go. Just as Grace had made him forget the past last night, and the evil of which he was capable, she had brought it back to him today.