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"Iggy. Iggy, are you all right?" A soft voice hummed near my ear.

I groaned and opened my eyes, looking up into Nudge's beautiful brown eyes. I was in a jail cell that reeked of pigeon droppings and something else, but I didn't care about that. What I did care about was that Nudge was with me when she should have been flying away with Max right now. I sat up quickly and grabbed Nudge's shoulders. From the look on her face, I could have been a madman who was lusting for blood.

"Nudge!" I whispered urgently. "What are you doing here?"

She took my hands and gently pushed them off her shoulders. I noticed that she didn't let go and felt a blush creep up my cheeks. I think she was blushing too, but it was hard to tell because of the dim light of the cell.

"We came back for you. Well, at least I did. Max just gave in when I started running back here. She knows how stubborn I am sometimes. She's waiting for us outside. Come on, we got to hurry."

"Wait, do you have a plan on how to get out of here?"

Nudge smiled. "Nope, not really. We'll wing it as we go. Now you go first and I'll-mpph!"

I took my hand away from her mouth and grinned at her. "Less talk, more action."

She nodded and pulled me to my feet. We started out of the jail cell when alarms went off. Guards ran down the hallway in every direction and surrounded us with their guns pointed straight at our hearts. I cussed under my breath and Nudge froze, her eyes filling with fear, then anger, then fear again.

The man who had tazered me earlier cleared a path through the guards and strode up to me, a triumphant grin on his face.

"Well, Iggy. You are stupider than I thought. You think that it'll be that easy to escape here with that criminal?" He said smugly.

"She's not a criminal. I can prove it. Just give me a day." I growled.

What was I doing? That was a bluff that I would never live down. We were doomed. Nudge shot me a surprised look and I tried to smile reassuringly at her and hoped that it didn't look more like a grimace.

The man thought for a minute and nodded, coming to a decision. My heart was pounding so loud in my chest that I barely made out his next words.

"You have one day. If you fail, the girl dies."

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