Chapter 173

“Jessica was kidnapped today.”

“What?” Leslie said, the spoon in her hand dropping to the plate. Her husband had come home and was unusually quiet. She had assumed he must have had a rough day at work. She prepared a light meal, and this was the opening line of their dinner conversation?

“What do you mean?” she pressed further when he said nothing else after the statement he had just dropped on her. He kept putting food in his mouth and chewing very slowly.

“Brian? What are you talking about?” she asked again when her husband still did not seem to be telling her everything.

“I just thought I should let you know. I know you will hear from Jessica too,” he answered before taking a sip of the water in the cup in front of him.

“So has she been found?” she asked, worried. She could feel her forehead creas