You Got To Believe Me

Chapter Fifteen

Eben

I felt awful. My heart and mind heavy with guilt. I should have handled that better. Listened to Jonah and not got immediate defensive and hostile.

It was just a shock to wake up and see that. I walked down the stairs and noticed that my sliding back door was open a bit. It made me smile and shake my head at the time. I was just going to remind Jonah to make sure the door was shut but then I saw my yard.

Blake and I finished filling the holes in the yard, the new hot tub looking good. It was newer than the other one and I had to admit, I liked it better.

"I am going to go check on Jonah." I tell Blake, walking back into the house.

"You really want to talk to him still, I say we kick him out." Blake states, making me halt and spin around, looking back at him.

"What?" Comes out of my mouth.

"We should kick him out, he is just going to keep doing this, he obviously doesn't want to be here."

"I am not kicking Jonah out, also there is no we yet and am not sure there will be. I am still learning about both of you and there would probably be a great exclamation on how it happened. We both needed to cool off and now that we can think clearly, we will be able to properly communicate and get to the conclusion."

"Come on Eben, we both know you are choosing me." Blake says, winking his bright blue eye.

"Hmm, we will see." I tell him, turning back towards the door and walking into the house.

I wasn't sure who I was picking yet. Blake was just too cocky right now. I knew I needed to spend more time with him to fully ger him. Right now I was just getting surface personalities. The more time I spent with them, will help me get to their deeper personalities.

For all I know Blake's cockiness could be a front. Once I break through that, he will probably be great. I just have to show him that he can trust me and not be afraid to show me his true self.

Same with Jonah. We just had to get through whatever this rough patch was. I will be open to his point of view at what happened and see if I can trust him or not.

My heart clenching tight and anxiety filling me. I was nervous, I really wanted to trust him. It making me sad to think that I wouldn't be able to. I wanted to continue to learn even more about him.

I mean he said he played baseball around the world for charities! There is no fucking way he would do this. Granted people can look like the best nicest people in public but are the shitest people when you got to know them.

I make it to Jonah's door, and steel my nerves. Okay here we go, I raise my hand and knock on the door. "Jonah it's me."

"Come in." I hear from the inside.

I open the door and go in, Jonah sitting at his desk. "Hey." I start, Jonah turning to look at me.

"So this morning obviously didn't go right. I wasn't hearing what you had to say and acted out."

"I wasn't listening to you either. All the evidence did point to me being the one to do it. I shouldn't of called you a lair." Jonah says.

"So you didn't do it?" I ask, stepping closer, an eyebrow cocked up.

"No!" Jonah calls out, eyes wide before he thinks a few moments and looks off to the side, playing with his hands. "I don't know maybe. I swear I didn't do it but all the evidence points to the fact that I did. I would never do that on purpose." Jonah explains.

I study him, seeing the sincerity in his green/brown eyes. His teeth sunk into his bottom lip as he thought, probably a habit he had. I believed him, he really looked sorry for what he did, even if he couldn't remember doing it.

"But why wouldn't you be able to remeber?" I ask, the question we were both thinking.

"I-I don't know." Jonah says, shrugging his shoulders.

"Has this ever happened before?" I ask.

"No, like I said I would never do this on purpose or accidental. I don't know what happened, but I wasn't apart of it. Someone is setting me up Eben! I know that sounds bad and like an excuse, but you have to believe me." Jonah says, standing up as he talked and walking closer to me, looking deep into my eyes.

His pretty hazel ones putting me in a trance and the soft brown with green swirls making my heart flutter. I looked closer in those eyes and saw specks on light blue as well. His eyes were amazing. I wonder what color they will be tomorrow?

It clicking that, this was the reason he was so in his head. He really didn't think he did this and that someone was out to get him. Could I trust him though? Was it just a trick?

"Jonah, can I try something? Just to be sure. I swear I will believe you right off the back with anything and everything else, but I just have to make sure you are not lying to me right now." I explain to him.

"Yeah, anything. I want you to believe me." Jonah says, nodding his head. The consent making me feel better.

I allow my lion to take over a bit, my teeth sharpening and eyes glowing a deep blue.

"Jonah, did you wreak my backyard?" I ask, my alpha voice coming out, it firm and powerful.

I was a really strong alpha when I wanted to be, even most other alphas backed down to me. With Jonah being a omega it would be extremely hard, pretty much impossible, for him to lie to me.

Not that I thought Jonah was weak, I knew he was very powerful, it's just with our animal instincts, they had a pack order. It helped in cases like that, letting me know if I could really trust Jonah.

I wanted to, deep down knowing I already did. Which is another reason why I needed to do this. I already liked Jonah so much, and if I found out later that he could lie to me so easily about ruining my yard, it would crush me.

Jonah whimpers in first response to my alpha, his tiger coming forward and phasing his teeth. Jonah phrasing so far, that cute soft fuzzy looking ears popped onto of his head, and I knew without looking his tail was out as well. Aww! He was freaken adorable. A approving purr leaving me, making Jonah brighten up.

"No, someone is setting me up Eben." Jonah confirms once again.

I can't help the smile that broke out of me. My arms rushing forward and wrapping around Jonah, pulling him against me. My hands unable to stop the itch to rub his ears and doing just that, making Jonah purr, his eyes closing in bliss.

"Okay, I believe you." I reassure him, voice back to normal.

Now to find the person that did it, and really it could only be one person. Blake was the only one that would gain something by doing this. I will have to talk with him. The thought putting a frown on my face.