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 only opened the heavy lock after calling Samuel’s phone to verify their identities directly.
“We just intercepted him in the lower parking garage,” Samuel reported immediately as he stepped inside the room.
“It was the exact man from the photograph.
He tried to come up to this specific floor twice tonight, and when security confronted him, he claimed he was here to congratulate the newlyweds, even though he couldn’t even state your last name.”
Chloe turned completely pale as she listened to the lawyer.