Chapter 4. Busy Day

It was ten in the evening when I arrived back from work. Larry was smoking his cigar on the back porch when I remembered seeing Jessica's reddening hand and her awkward gesture of how she kept on hiding her hand.

"What happened to her hand?"

"Hello big brother, take a seat, have a cigar, tell me about your day?" Larry smirked but answered my question seconds later.

"...her assistant said that Jessica accidentally touched the hot coffee plate, she was surprised by her when she was refilling her tumbler." He puffed out the smoke and crossed his legs while he looked out at the beautiful starry night.

"She is a bit jumpy, don't you think?"

Larry shrugged at my question, telling me that he hadn't known her long enough to give any opinion on her traits.

"She said that you took her home yesterday? insisted on having business dinner..."

"Jessica is...I feel like she was hiding something. I was trying to find out more