C173 Branch 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