Chapter 519

“Why isn’t this all over the news?” Jamie asked.

“I honestly don’t know.” That was a phrase Aaron didn’t say very often. He was looking at me, and I wished he wasn’t. “Cassidy mentioned that a lot of these people may be invisible—homeless, no families, no jobs. But not all of them.”

“Could Christian have been controlling the media somehow?” Hannah asked. Again, I wondered why she wouldn’t know the answer to that question. What had she been doing the last two weeks? “Does he have that authority?”

“To some degree, but I don’t think he would’ve been doing that. Why would he?” Aaron asked.

“Maybe to keep things under wraps until you got back and we could handle it?” Hannah guessed.

I almost laughed. She had no idea.... No one else had any idea either, so I asked a question I’d been pondering for days. “Is it po