388 LEILANI'S PLAN (3)

Downstairs, the leaders were looking dejectedly at the empty plate of cookies. All of them, apart from the shadow king, had had at least one cookie. The way they looked at that moment in time was similar to the children who had stayed over at her house. Since she was not human, Leilani could hear a crunch from the crowd of leaders. 

It was only after secretly searching with her eyes that she saw the Drakkon Empress seated in one of the settees with the emperor next to her. He had his arm slung over the back of the chair behind her shoulders. The empress held the last cookie in her hands, and was comfortably chewing.

Leilani almost laughed out loud at the sight of them. 

More than anything, the emperor looked like a tyrant who had snatched sweets from poor children and given it to his wife.