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.

“Was he arrested by the police?” Chloe asked anxiously.

“The hotel management cannot legally detain him without filing formal charges first, but we now have his clear face recorded on security cameras, the exact time of his attempted forced entry, and his vehicle’s license plate,” Samuel explained reassuringly.

“All of this adds to our growing evidentiary record, because this time he left a concrete physical trail behind.”

Walter snapped his heavy briefcase shut with a decisive click.

“Then we finally have the legal leverage we needed to destroy them,” Walter declared calmly.