Echo: Special Edition: A Dark MM Sci-Fi College Enemies to Lovers Romance by Chani Lynn Feener

Author:Chani Lynn Feener [Feener, Chani Lynn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-07-01T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 18:

“Rabbit!”

He snuck out the back, glancing over his shoulder toward the door he’d painstakingly shut behind him. “What are you doing here?!” he whisper-yelled once he had the older man in sight, coming up short the second his gaze landed on his face.

His bruised and swollen face.

One of his eyes was entirely sealed shut and his lip was cracked in three places. His cheeks and his jawline were covered in a smattering of harsh, purple, and blue blotches that had Rabbit instantly feeling sick to his stomach, and that was before the man took a step toward him.

Limped toward him.

“She didn’t…” He didn’t want to believe this was something his mother was capable of and yet…He’d seen her pull Oli out of his seat in the back and force him out of the auditorium in the middle of Rabbit’s set. A part of him had known things wouldn’t have been pleasant between them, but this… “Light.”

Oli grabbed his hand and squeezed when Rabbit reached for him, stopping him before he could touch his brutalized face.

Rabbit’s music teacher had always been like sunshine incarnate, bright, and bubbly. He could find a silver lining amid the darkest storms and had the uncanny ability to make Rabbit want to do the same. He’d always admired the dimples on his cheeks and the fine arch of his golden brows, but now everything was caked in dried blood, and the fact that his mother was the reason for it made him want to both throw-up and beg for forgiveness.

“I should have stayed away.” He tried to pull his hand free, but Oli’s grip tightened, keeping him captive as panic swept across the older man’s expression.

“Come with me,” he blurted, casting his eyes toward the dark, looming house. They were standing with only the single porch light there to help illuminate them, only enough to make them visible to one another while standing this close, less than three feet apart. “Let’s leave, Rabbit. We can go and never look back. You can be free.”

“What—” He tried to take Oli’s other hand, gasping when that had him crying out.

Oli Easton, the best musician on this side of the planet aside from December Trace, had three broken fingers.

“No.” Rabbit shook his head and stepped back, yanking himself free from that hold. His mother was a controlling nightmare to him, sure, but music was her God. She would never… “You need to get to a hospital!” He forgot all about the need to be quiet, grabbing onto his elbow to tug him toward the other side of the house.

They only made it a few steps before Oli dug his heels in.

“That’s not important right now,” Oli said, but Rabbit didn’t agree.

“If you don’t get this checked you’ll never play again!”

“I don’t care.”

“How can you say that?” Rabbit had only met Oli because of their shared love for the beiska. There was no way his teacher would willingly give that up, and for what? His ex-student with the overbearing mother? It didn’t make sense.

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