Chapter ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY THREE

"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 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 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 was not seeming to tell 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 her forehead creased as she spoke.   "Yes, as when last I spoke with Brian he said that they were on their way to the house from the hospital" he explained.   Leslie wondered how he was so calm while