An unexpected package

Madalyn had just arrived at her apartment after shopping all day for Christmas gifts for both of her and her fiancés families. As she was fumbling in her purse for her keys, she noticed a package wrapped in brown paper in front of her door. Finally, she had found her keys and she reached down and thoughtlessly scooped up the package and tucked it under her arm as she walked through the door.

As she walked into the foyer, she noticed the smell of smoke and rushed into the kitchen shouting “No! Not the pot roast! I followed the directions to the recipe word for word, I don’t understand why its burning in the crockpot?!” While rushing to see what was left of what would have been a great meal, she carelessly threw the package and it slid across the floor into the living room.

After cleaning up the kitchen she flopped onto the couch while looking up places that delivered pizza on Christmas eve, while listening to the deals that Pizza Tuts had she remembered the package that she had brought in from earlier. Madlyn reached down searching for the package while telling her order to Breanna. “Yes, I’d like to order your King Tuts pizza deal tonight with pepperoni, green peppers and jalapenos, yes this completes my order”. Just as the call ended, she grasped the package and noticed that the box was freezing. “What the heck, why is this package so cold?” Madalyn reviewed the box and seen that the only words written on the package was “To the fiancé of Mark C.” not who it was from or any indication of what may be inside.

Confused, Madalyn started to open the package and discovered that inside was a Styrofoam cold deliver box with a sticky note that said, “Open before it’s too late” along with a strange number she’s never seen before. As she lifted the lid of the box and peered into its Madalyn instantly threw up. Inside was a severed bloody finger that she recognized because it had Marks ring that she gave him on his birthday.

After tossing the box and gaining her composer, she dialed the number written on the note. A frighteningly deep voice answered the phone and said, “You must be the woman Mark can’t stop blabbing about” Madalyn demanded to know who she was talking to and where Mark was, only after a terrifying laugh echoed over the phone did the man state, “Mark’s fine and is still alive only if you follow my instructions”. Madalyn said, “I’ll do whatever you want as long as you let me speak to Mark and you don’t do anything else to hurt him”. The man answered back sharply “You have a lot of nerve making demands when the life of your fiancé is on the line!” “But sure, you can speak to him, and I promise I won’t touch another hair on his head”. As the phone was shuffled around finally the voice of her future husband began to speak. “Madalyn, baby, I am so sorry that I got you mixed up in this. But please don’t listen to this psychopath. Go on without me and just remember that I loved you with every fiber of my soul.” Madalyn crying uncontrollably shouted “No Mark, don’t you say that. I don’t know what’s going on, but I will do anything to make sure that you come home to me, and we live our lives together!”

The deep voice of the man was back on the phone again and said, “Now that’s enough before I puke. I’m so glad to hear that you’re willing to do anything to save you sweet pie, now listen up carefully because I’m only going to give you instructions once and if you mess this up then you can kiss your fairytale of a future with Marky-poo goodbye!” Madalyn was so quite that she could hear the Christmas music from her neighbor’s apartment three doors down across the hall. The man stated that she would need to dress in all black and drive 24 mins away to an address that she didn’t know. So that she could deliver a USB drive that was hidden in the bottom of the angel that was on top of the Christmas tree in her very own living room. Baffled and confused why there was USB drive stuffed in the bottom of the Christmas angel her great grandma gave her when she was 5, she did what she was instructed to do.

One thing that this “psychopath” nor did Mark know, is the fact that before she moved to New York to start her new life she was indeed a hybrid wolf/ vampire. She did her best to make sure Mark never found out about her past life and what she really was by making sure that every full moon she had to “work late” at her office and that she curved he insatiable lust for blood with rare steaks she ate on a regular that were delivered right to her door.

As Madalyn drove up the snow-covered driveway, she could see a massive farmhouse tucked away in a thicket of woods miles away from any civilization. She turned her lights off as she pulled up to the house and quietly stepped out of the car while closing the door behind her. Madalyn gazed into the night sky and knew that at this moment, the man that had kidnapped her fiancé would never live another day. For tonight she had the advantage because not only was there a full moon tonight, but it was a super moon. Sometimes this moon is referred to as the Full Long Nights Moon, which is an appropriate name because the nights are now indeed long, and the moon is above the horizon for a long time.