Chapter 34
Cinder considered running. But in this crowd, she would only make it a couple of steps before someone caught her.
The gentlemen switched places as her partner, and the prince glided effortlessly onto the dance floor with her in his arms.
“I should probably apologize for taking you away from that fine gentleman, but I couldn’t help myself. All the ladies in the kingdom are here, but I find that they all look the same tonight. Strange, wouldn’t you say?”
Did he recognize her? She tried to keep the tension out of her grip as she twirled on his arm.
“Then why bother to pick one over another?” she asked, trying to keep her voice low so that he might not recognize it.
“My question exactly when I happened to look up from a chittering girl and saw my brother looking mesmerized as
