the whole night had been too perfect to ruin it by waiting for a response . *** damn it , she was going to lose . have you got a receipt for it ? ' when he set her down , she scrambled to her knees and threw herself into him . she knew that her father and several of the council members were in the library drinking to her sudden marriage . all of this has been blown way out of proportion . he took the hook in for the first time . 