Ella manages to escape the ball without being discovered, and Lady Lela is erased forever. Two years later, Char returns to Kyrria, and Ella, knowing her deception will be exposed, runs away. But fate has a funny way of dashing all of one's plans, even if they are for the good of your kingdom. Ella/Char. WIP.

Having always seen life as a perpetual entertainment, Char, Prince of Kyrria, encounters resistance in the form of one Ella of Frell. She is bitter, argumentative, and wants nothing to do with him; yet he cannot seems to forget her. AU. Char/Ella. OOC.

"What exactly do you think the knights told them?" "That the reason behind your hasty exit from the ball was not in fact as a result of a psychotic episode, but that of a young man merely in love?" I joked. "It had to be something that they would deem believable, Ella," he said chuckling. A continuation of the beloved tale, starting immediately where the book left off.

On the night of the third ball, everything went according to plan. Ella plans to forget Char and go on living with her curse as a maid in Dame Olga’s house. But first loves always die hard.