Free Alpha Initiation (Alpha Blood #1) (Werewolf Romance) by Mac Flynn

want my Mama and Papa!" she screamed.
    Her wails were interrupted when the car beneath our feet slid a yard. Abby and I screamed, and I fell onto the sharp ground with Abby on top of me. Luke grabbed the wall and grimaced. "The car won't hold for much longer, sir," Alistair told us.
    "So we noticed," Luke replied. He helped Abby and me up. "We'll get out of here and find your parents, Abby," he told the frightened, crying girl. She nodded and calmed just a little.
    Now we had another problem. The new ceiling was a good fifteen feet above us. "How are we going to get out of here?" I asked Luke.
    "Alistair, take Abby," Luke instructed his servant.
    Alistair easily dropped through a broken window and the open door. He took Abby in his arms, hunkered down, and jumped upward. His vertical easily cleared the distance, and the pair disappeared over the side of the overturned car. My mouth was still open when I was swept into Luke's arms. "Hold on," he instructed.
    I yelped when we flew into the air. We whipped past the walls and out into the open air. Luke landed us close beside where Alistair and Abby stood. He set me down carefully so my feet didn't go through a window, and I got my first glimpse of the area and the wreckage. The area was a rugged wilderness of trees and a sloped hillside that ascended to the left of the train and dropped down on the right side. Ahead of us was the remains of the engine, and flames shot high into the dark night sky. Beyond that was the ruins of the tracks. The thick metal bands were a tangled mess of warped steel, and I wondered how an engine could have caused such devastation.
    Behind us lay the other cars, and in the distance I could see that the final three cars were fifty yards down the slope. The cars had left a mess of broken trees and small, scattered boulders. The compartments themselves were a tangled mass of thick and warped sheets of metal. Some passengers stood on the slope above the wreck while the train's crew and other riders were down among the ruins of the final three cars.
    I didn't know how anyone could have survived that mess, but they were pulling people out of the rubble. Most of them even looked unscathed with not even a scratch across their cheeks. Abby grasped my hand and her little eyes searched the faces of the survivors. Her face lit up when Mr. and Mrs. Stewart were helped from the remains of their car, and she tugged hard on my arm as she jumped up and down. "Mama and Papa are all right!" she cried out in joy.
    "Of course they are," Luke calmly replied.
    For my part I was shocked. I thought I'd been holding the hand of an orphan. "How did they make it?" I wondered.
    "There are benefits to being a monster," Luke calmly replied. He glanced around us. "We should get off the car," he reminded us.
    I nodded and lifted Abby into my arms. The ascending slope meant the drop to the ground wasn't too far, so I hopped down and followed Alistair over to the group of forward-car survivors. Unlike my wonderful assortment of minor cuts and bruises they were just in shock. The other survivors were helped up the hill, and Abby broke from me and raced over to her shaken but healthy parents. "Mama! Papa!"
    "Abby!" her mother cried out. They raced into each others' arms and there were smiles all around.
    I glanced up at Luke and noticed he, too, wore a smile. "You like happy endings, too?" I teased him.
    Luke shook himself from his good humor and straightened his filthy pajama top. "A good deed is it's own reward, but celebrations should be for another time and place."
    "You mean because we need to get out of here?" I guessed.
    He looked to the engine and where Alistair spoke with the engineer. "Because I don't think this had anything to do with a good deed." Luke took a step toward them, but we were detained for a moment longer by the arrival of Abby and her parents.
    "Becky, look! Mama and Papa are all right!" Abby yelled at me.
    "Of course we are, Abby. A little train wreck wouldn't