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.

Shortly after that call, another aggressive buyer appeared, and soon a strange man began waiting outside her building entrance every afternoon.

“You are far too young to be managing a valuable property like this all by yourself,” the stranger said with a chilling smile one morning.

“There are major financial decisions that are much better made before someone else makes them for you.”

Chloe slammed the front door shut without answering him.

Then, anonymous written notes began arriving under her front door on a weekly basis, bearing short threats like “Sell the property now,” “It is in your best financial interest,” and “This is your last chance.”

One night, she discovered deep scratch marks all around her door lock, indicating an attempted break-in.