His eyes widened in confusion, and she turned her back to him.

"You can let him go," she said to the guards. "He won't be disrupting this auction again."

The guards looked to Sean, and he nodded slightly.

"Very well then," the head guard said. "He's free to go, but he may not roam the premises, and we will stay with him until he is off the grounds. Furthermore, he is banned from participating in or attending any other auction or event here ever again."

The vein in Lawson's temple looked like ...