My eyes widened slightly. “What happened during the eclipse?”
“That night, when I went back home,” he began. “He took me to his basement. He said he wanted to show me something. You know about that name the little boy Eli kept calling me? Leander.”
I nodded, urging him to go on.
“There was a portrait down there,” he said. “Old, dusty, kind of hidden away. He told me it was a painting of the last Alpha King. King Leander Aurelian the Fifth...”
I raised an eyebrow. “Okay… but what does that have to do with the ring?”
Silver turned to me and looked me straight in the eyes.
“The man in the portrait was wearing the exact same ring,” he said.
My mouth fell open. I stopped walking again, just staring at him.
“What?! You’re sure?” I asked.
He nodded once. “Positive. Same shape. Same marki
