For the next few hours, Lucian Storm, with the patience of a courteous host caught between admiration and anxiety, remained by Vann Silver's side while Noah stood near the entrance like an unmoving sentinel, his sharp eyes never straying far from the store that Kiara had entrusted to his care.
Because Noah was under strict instructions not to leave the premises, he refused every request to demonstrate the weapons himself.
And when Lucian, unable to suppress his embarrassment, reminded him that Vann Silver was now a paying customer, Noah merely pointed to the rules board with the same calm certainty with which a judge points to the law carved in stone, where it was clearly written that the right to deny demonstrations belonged entirely to the employees of the store.
