The Kindler by Russ Enfire

The Kindler
A sexy man in a creepy bunny mask is stalking me.
But that’s not even the scariest part of my story.
I’m Ignacious, son of infamous slasher killer Reggie Bern, and I’ve witnessed horrors most people only see at the movies. Every night when my dad returned home from a kill, blood staining his coveralls, he’d sit on the edge of my bed and tell me stories of torture, gore, and death. I listened, learned, and silently vowed to never take up his blade.
That didn’t stop him from sending me to Camp Kindred- a compound built to indoctrinate and train the children of slasher killers.
Then my dad faced off with the wrong final girl and left me a 19-year-old orphan with a crown too big for my head, a target on my chest, and only a lighter to defend myself against Kindred’s class of 1990.
I can become another cog in Kindred’s murder machine, or I can trust my life to a small flame and a quiet bunny rabbit with shoulders I’d love to climb.

The Stalker
Ignacious Bern knows my face.
I held him in my arms once, when we were boys, back he first got to Camp Kindred and killing was just something our dads did. He cried that day, translucent tears that warmed my skin and my heart, and I decided that I wouldn’t let anyone make him cry ever again.
Then I clashed with a strangler, lost my voice, and became Bunny Benton- the silent, masked slasher.
I’ve watched Ignacious from afar, kept him safe all these years, but that won’t be enough if he refuses the title passed down by his infamous father.
Because Ignacious is mine to protect even if that means stepping out of the shadows and showing my true face.