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.

That was precisely why, when Brandon, Nancy, Hannah, and the rest of the curious family burst into the hotel room late the next morning, they discovered the young bride sleeping peacefully while the eighty-year-old groom guarded the door with dark circles under his eyes and a briefcase full of criminal evidence.

After Walter calmly explained the entire context to his family, he refused to allow another single joke to be made.

“Last night, while every single one of you was laughing and making crude remarks at her expense, one of the dangerous men who has been stalking her was standing right in that room,” Walter revealed sternly.

“He crashed our reception, he watched her for hours, and yet people in my own family decided that I was the predator.”

Nancy completely lost all color in her face as the weight of her cruelty settled in.