Everyone laughed when they sent an eighty-year-old man and his eighteen-year-old wife off to spend their wedding night together. “Let’s see if Grandpa can make it until morning,” one relative joked through a burst of laughter. He didn’t respond. He simply picked up his old briefcase and closed the door. When six relatives opened it the next morning, they stopped laughing when they discovered what he had been protecting all night.

Walter sat in silence for several long minutes before responding to the attorney.

“People are going to tear this innocent girl apart with terrible gossip,” Walter noted grimly.

“They are already destroying her life with daily fear,” Samuel pointed out directly.

When Walter gently proposed the protective marriage arrangement to Chloe, she genuinely thought she had misheard the elderly man.

“This will strictly be a legal and familial protection arrangement while we finalize the legal case against these men,” Walter explained to her clearly.

“We will execute a complete prenuptial agreement for the separation of assets, meaning your father’s apartment will remain entirely yours.