Immediately the door opened, the world got very loud very fast around her..
The light hit her first. Not soft event lighting but the hard aggressive flash of cameras going off in rapid succession, a wall of it, and behind the light came the noise. People calling Hunter's name. Questions fired from every direction. The low roar of a crowd that had been waiting and had now gotten exactly what it came for.
Maya's feet almost stopped moving.
Almost.
Hunter's hand found the small of her back with light pressure but was gone in a second.
"Don't stop walking," he said quietly. Close enough that nobody else caught it and only she could hear it.
She kept walking.
The cameras were relentless. She'd seen red carpets on screens her entire life and understood them the way you understand things y
