Like a Lifeline

Maddox POV

My heart pounded so hard it felt like it might crack open. I didn’t know how long I’d been running, just that I couldn’t stop. Not until I saw her.

“Yo, you Maddox?” one of the football guys called out, but their voices blurred into background noise. I couldn’t think. Couldn’t breathe.

I had to find her.

Now.

I burst out of the rink’s back doors, lungs burning, and then froze. She was s