This is book 2/4 in the Cinderella Series by Oluwatosin Ojumu, and it follows Cinderella Princess
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She was gone. He had looked all over. But she was gone. Quite gone.

Prince Wilfred impatiently tossed aside the hamper he had hastily packed, scattering exotic fruits, various delicate pastries and succulent pies quite everywhere, and breaking several bottles of gently expensive lemonade, and threw off the footman's tunic, grumbling to himself.

"What a silly idea that disguise was!"

Whose stupid idea was that anyway? Oh yes – his own. Not in the least bit mollified by this, he walked angrily up to a random footman, (a real footman this time), grabbing him by his tunic, and gesticulating wildly in the vague direction of the great Palace doors.

"Find her, damn you!",
he barked at him, heedless of the man's rank, heedless that neither this footman nor any other of the Palace-pampered set would easily be able to even find his way around the city, let alone isolate one single woman out of the thousands that had thronged there that night, much less when no-one knew which particular woman he was actually talking about.

Finally, he took a deep breath, he calmed down, he smoothed back the man's rumpled tunic.

"I'm sorry", he apologised to the footman.

"I'm sorry", he smiled ruefully at the shocked silence around him.

"I'm so very sorry." And with that, he turned on his heel and sharply exited.