Bella pov
I climbed in with Tom still in my arms, Maya sliding in behind us. The door shut, the locks engaged with an ominous click, and suddenly we were moving, pulling out of the loading dock and into an alley I'd never noticed before.
"Mommy, why are we hiding?" Tom asked, his small voice worried now. "Are the bad guys after us?"
"No, baby," I said, holding him close. "We're just avoiding some people who want to ask Mommy boring work questions. Nothing for you to worry about."
Through the tinted windows, I watched the city pass by, saw the news vans still clustered outside the hotel's front entrance, saw reporters checking their phones and comparing notes.
None of them looked our direction as we drove past, just another black car in a city full of them.
Twenty minutes later, we p
