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 so quiet. She had just assumed he must have had a rough day at work. She prepared a light meal, and the opening line for their dinner discussion was this?

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

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

“I just thought to let you know. I know you will get to 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 the way