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“I’ll have the said irritably

She clutched the two pounds of coffee grounds she’d gotten for

her basket of cookies She was jittery because she had sat with the

goblin chieftain, oblin had

finally fallen out of his chair

Cian had been amazed at how much she could drink Somewhere

in there, the goblin chief had asked for her hand in e Cian had

been forced to pull a knife to persuade the chief that he wasn’t willing

to give up his claim on his wife

“Make sure you do” The goblin chief looked longingly at the

empty basket

The cookies had gone quickly After the first had been tried,

negotiations had begun at a swift pace Meg had been hard-nosed

Cian had actually felt a little bad for the goblins He could have told