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It is the newest chapter and things are about to really turn around as the tables begin to shift! In this chapter there will be romance, tragedies and betrayal!


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Every single day now for two weeks I had killed anyone the stranger had told me to until I believed the notebook's true power. She would seduce me tantalizing my body with sweet promises and caressing whispers. I would just hum with delight it seemed, and to please her I would do as she said. She even got me to kill my ex-best friend Taylor Becket. It didn't stop there though; I killed many others some even innocent that probably didn't deserve to die. I did it though because she told me in her warm milky voice that if I did my ideal world would be a reality, and I wanted it. Before I realized it I became her perfect assassin or as she would like to call it a "terrorist."

The office had grown depressing over the last few weeks. Every day for the last fourteen of them Ren had sat at his desk sulking and feeling sorry for himself. Every moment of his time he spent sitting there- wallowing in his own self pity ever since the day he heard about Matsuda. Nadia was getting tired of it.

"Ren for god's sake! How long to you plan on putting this off?" walking to the corner of the room she flicked the light switch hoping it would come on. Instead it had gone out, totally. "For crying out loud…" she mumbled to herself before turning her attention back to him. That's right, no time for pet peeves. I need to put Ren back in his game! "Listen I do understand that he is your friend…um…" she pondered what to call him. What did help guys? "…Sweetheart… but really if we don't get this done a lot of people are going to die. He is your friend but enough is enough!" When she tried to look Ren in the eye he just looked down the shadows of the room covering all his features. "Ren are you even listening to me?!" she yelled, but still no reply. "You are a coward you got that! Stupid ill-fated men that can't even suck it up and talk to his friend! People are dying because you are just moping around! You are going to let innocent people die and suffer? Are you?"

"Shut up!" Nadia stopped as she heard the crash. Ren had gotten up so quickly the chair had fell backward into the file cabinet behind him making a loud noise. She could her the sound of grinding as he bit down with his teeth growling in frustration, his hands were gripping hard on the corners of the desk Nadia thought that if he squeezed hard enough that the wood would soon splinter. This side of him frightened her. "Why are you even here Nadia? I want you to leave! Get out! Now!" he spit the words out like throwing tiny daggers each one piercing her directly in the heart purposely causing her pain, and it could be read on her face. "Nadia… I am sorry…"

Nadia shook her head quickly trying to seem like she was fine, but her body language contradicted her immensely. Her arms were wound tightly around her her fingers digging into the flesh of her arms as she held herself shivering- she felt vulnerable to him right now even frightened. Inside she knew though that she caused his outburst, his rage and she caused him to yell and scream at her, to curse and snap. It was all her fault. She put too much emotion and sense of justice into her work and business it just made everything fall apart.

"I can't do this anymore Nadia… I can't work I can't do any of this." He whispers sinking back in his chair. "Matsuda is my friend… doing this could easily just get him fired. I can't ask him for the notebook without knowing inside how he got it. I am an honest man, I can't do this…" he sighed looking away. "You and Maxwell will have to do this by yourself because I am done with it all." Just then the room seemed to get more darker to Nadia. The thought without Ren around- as much as she hated to admit it- it hurt.

"No Ren, you can't quit on us now. We need you on the case! Me and Max need you!" she cried out to him desperate. Her hand shot out grabbing his squeezing it tightly. "Please we have gotten so close the past weeks, don't throw it away when we are so close."

"We haven't even begun Nadia!" he said pulling his hand away. "Why do women need to be so naïve, why do you get this big hope inside your gut that there is a chance in solving this? It's stupid! It's idiotic! It is insane! Women are insane! Might as well fucking say it!" he threw his hands up in the air in frustration turning in his chair facing his back to her.

"Excuse me! There are lots of things men do wrong too! You can't ask for directions, you care too much about yourselves to think about the women you care about, we might as well say it that all you men are are sex needy lunatics! I am not surprise that you needed directions where to put it, but of course you men are to damn stubborn to ask for directions you would probably miss!"

"What the hell are you saying!" Ren stood up his shadow seeming to tower of her. "You know what I don't need this from Miss Congeniality here so why don't you take your expensive shoes and let it kick your fat white ass out the door!" Nadia puffed up her cheeks and squared her feet locking her knees. "I said leave."

"I am not leaving not tell you apologize Mr. Simon Cowell!" he turned away scoffing. "What? It's true! You probably have a shoe so far up your ass you forgot what kindness fucking was!" he turned away glaring and Nadia just sighed. "Why are we arguing…?"

He shrugged sitting on top of the desk. "I don't know; we are just being idiots…"

"I really don't want you to just quit…"

Ren shook his head reaching an arm out around her back leading her towards the door. "It has to." Nadia then shook her head pushing her hands against his chest pulling away. "Nadia stop rebelling and just understand I can't do this anymore."

"So you are just giving this all up! Everything!" She stared at him with earnest eyes watching him carefully, but he showed the same answer. "I can't believe this…" her back slowly turned and he lifted her hands to cover her face. How could I have gotten so emotionally attached to this… it was only a few weeks? Maybe… I just felt like I belonged. Hot tears started coming down her tears in long streaks and soon after that her body shook. Ren watched pain tugging at him. "You are just giving up…" she whispered between silent sobs.

"Nadia please stop this…" he whispered walking towards her his arms going around her as she turned to face him. "I don't want you crying over this… you still have Maxwell." She shook her head burying her face against his chest as she took fists full of his shirt her tears soaking into the linen as she cried. "Why are you so heartbroken over this?"

"I don't know… I just…" she sucked in a deep breath her body shuttering. "I just need you there. For the last to weeks you made everything seem so possible and not impossible as others do. You gave me hope and I don't want to do this without you." When she stared at him it was like a bullet had past through him. Her cheeks were stained with tears and her eyes were red and puffing from them. "Please don't go…"

Ren just shook his head his hands gliding up to cup her face. When she cried she looked so beautiful. "Nadia I…" his lips hovered over hers as his eyes just locked staring inside hers. "I can't…"

"No don't say that… you can Ren, you can!" her hands gripped onto him tighter not wanting to let go as he tried to break free. "Ren please you-"

Her voice was then muted as Ren covered her mouth with his, his tongue sweeping inside as he tried to silence her. In truth it wasn't just to silence her, it was because he wanted to kiss her. An urge screamed inside him telling him to, telling him she wanted it as well. When the kiss broke they were both silent just staring into each other's eyes. "Just shut up…" she nodded slowly, but when she tried to talk his mouth came crushing on hers once more and her words were cut off. She could feel herself being pulled tighter to him as the kiss deepened. She thought he had meant the kiss to be punishing, but as soon as their lips touched again she went in flames that she kissed him back with such intensity it even surprised her.

When he released her she wound her arms around him tugging him closer still like a cat demanding attention. To reward him for kissing her she rubbed her body up against his hearing him groan. She couldn't remember a time when she felt this aroused or ever a time she had been. Years have gone by since her last boyfriend and all she had cared about was work, but Ren was changing all that.

She tugged at the hem of his shirt impatient until she could run her hands beneath it, stroking the hard planes of his chest. It still wasn't enough- she wanted to see and feel! Grabbing onto the shirt her fingers struggled with the buttons before she growled annoyed. She could hear his amused chuckles, which didn't help anything, so instead of taking her time she just ripped the shirt letting the buttons fly on each end of the room.

"You owe me a new shirt…" he breathed against her ear.

"I don't care… all I care about now is this…" the minute she saw his bare chest she laid a kiss over his heart savoring the feel and taste of his skin. God it has been ages!

He leaned his head back his arms holding onto her waist as he let out a groan. "God Nadia you have no idea…" he lifted her up over his hips pressing her back against the wall as he began to cover her neck in hot kisses. Nadia giggled wrapping her legs around him letting her head fall to the side losing herself.

"See I was right adults are perverts." Maxwell walked through the door shutting it behind him acting like nothing had even been happening, as if he seen it plenty of times before.

Ren groaned letting Nadia down gently as she straightened her shirt and hair. "Not all of us are perverts, anyway she came onto me."

"What!" she put her hands on her hips appalled. "You have the gull to say that when you gave me a hush kiss."

"It worked wonders dear." He laughed then glanced to Maxwell. "Anyway you're just jealous you don't have a girl."

Maxwell yawned feeling quite bored walking to the computer sitting down in the chair. "Women's body and love don't concern me or interest me. It's a wasted emotion anyway. Most of the kids at school have what they think are "girlfriends" but in reality it is just puppy love."

"Aren't you only like nine?" he questioned crossing his arms with a smirk on his face.

"I am twelve and you need a new shirt."

"Tell her that." Nadia just turned away crossing her arms embarrassment lighting one her pink glowing cheeks. Ren smiled then looked over at Maxwell with all seriousness. Before glancing back at Nadia. She was uncomfortable now with him being in the room he saw that, maybe it would be best to leave now without telling her the plan just like Maxwell wanted. She wouldn't be able to work well with him anyway. "Well Maxwell I am going to head off on home." Maxwell got up and grabbed his hand just as he went to turn slipping the folded paper inside his palm. They glanced at each other for a moment in complete understand. "All right Maxwell. I will see ya later Max… Nadia."

"It's Maxwell… only Ryuzaki calls me Max…" he muttered before looking at Nadia who stared at Ren's back leaving with sad eyes.

"Ren…"


"Miss Leana!" I turned around quickly pulling the dress robe closer around me in the chilled room clutching the fabric tight in my grasp. One of the "workers" as she called them came running in their face flushed and her breathing in incoherent gasps. I watched her closely trying to read her face and her emotions, but it was impossible through her confused rambling. "A man is here, by the name of Ren!"

"A visitor?" my heart jumped into my throat. Why would someone we be here to visit me? We haven't even made this "company" known to the world.

"Yes madam, I do not know how are or why, but he did come here to see you." I turned around my hands rubbing my temples until they started to almost throb. "What should we do."

I racked through my mind now chewing on my fingernails as I paced the room clearly worried about what I should do. One false step and whoever that guy is could find me out. That is when she came into the picture. Compose yourself dear. You are a leader of this company, think logically. If you don't want to be found out- send out someone else to be you. I smiled at this I idea. It was perfect. She always came when I was in trouble, she was the one person I could count on, the one person that gave me this notebook and this power, the White Candle and I was the Black Fox.

Cautiously I began to speak my voice shaking slowly with what I couldn't figure out to be fear or sheer joy. "I want someone to go in my place, as a fake. This man could be a threat. They will where my robes."

The girl's face seemed to brighten as her eyes glistened with pure delight. "Let me be the one to take on this duty Lady Leana." I watched her for a moment then slowly stripped off the robe handing it to her with careful hands. The woman smiled and just straightened her back squaring her feet in a salute. "I will not fail!"

I nodded to her professionally before I turned my back to her once more. "Good luck Lieutenant."

"I will." As soon as she put the robe on she was out in a dash to greet the knew "guest."

You did good Black Fox, now come to "the Room". We must watch these events unfold and see how well she really does. We may have to right her name.

"I understand." I spoke solemnly.


The chair legs squeaked across the hard panes of the floorboards as Nadia wiggled about anxiously. "So its been a few hours…. Don't you think he would have come back by now." Nadia still fidgeted in her seat shifting about a nervous sweat on her brow.

"He should be if he is done with what I gave him."

Nadia stopped and quirked her head to the side. "And what did you give him?"

His face looked hollow as his fingers continued to click at the keys, the screen would shift in different shade of blues making his face pale and seem almost dead. "A note."

"A note…" she grumbled before glancing at him more sternly now. "Mind telling me what was on it… Max."

Maxwell cringed at the name before he leaned back shrugging his shoulders as he slid further into the seat hiding himself. Still he could feel her burning wrath of a stare on him and he let out a small whimper before sighing. "A mission." He said simply gaining back his entire composer as he began to drum his fingers on the armchair of the computer seat as he spun right to left in easy movements. "When I was out I found a company called WC, it was new so it looked suspicious… that is when I figured it out that the place stood for White Candle."

Nadia stood up then growling in frustration. "What were you thinking Maxwell! Making him go there alone, he could be killed! I have to go to him!" she said turning to rush out of the room, but there to stop her with a grin on his face was Ren. "Ren you're okay!"

"Glad you were worried about me." He said winking before brushing past her to Maxwell. "You were right on the money kid. That is White Candle, they were so cautious enough to send a fake that gave normal details, maybe to normal for a company that hasn't sold diddly on the market."

"Did you give them the name I told you to?" Maxwell sat up his hands folding into his lap looking very professional.

"Yes I did Mr. President." Ren teased. "Ren Marks, that is what you wanted me to say right?" he gave a thumbs up and a cocky grin to him which even brought a smile to Maxwell's lips.

"You both are idiots…" Ren and Maxwell glanced looked at Nadia. "You kept this all from me… you probably think I am a nuisance! If you died Ren what would happen to this? What then Ren, what would we do? Don't you need my help at all!" Tears were swelling in her eyes and Ren just stared not giving an answer neither did Maxwell. "You know what? Fine do this without me because I obviously don't belong here! I quit!"

Ren eyes showed no sympathy to her and Nadia knew that, she quickly wanted to take the words back to stay on his good side. Why doesn't he show compassion as he did then? "The door is behind you Miss, feel free to leave. Don't let it hit your ass on the way out." Nadia glanced at Maxwell for help but he just closed his eyes ignoring her. "We do not need someone like you on the team. I don't need you." His back then turned away. Nadia longed to just run and hug him to plead for forgiveness, but that wouldn't happen.

She just stood there frozen still her fists balled up at her waist shaking as Nadia waited to there hoping Ren wouldn't let her go.

"Nadia good bye. You may leave now. We have no further use for you." Nadia stayed for only what seemed for a few long seconds before she bit her lip running from the room letting not letting him hear her cries or see her tears. She wouldn't cry for him anymore! She wouldn't care if he was even dead! Actually she hoped the White Candle killed him!

Maxwell sighed sitting up straighter looking at him with a great sadness. "I am sorry Ren, I thought she would put her work before her feelings. I thought she would also no the this was going to have you and her take huge risks."

"Maxwell, I am not going to show any sympathy to a quitter, male or female." He then sighed slowly. "She is better off without us and we without her. Anyway I am going to finally talk to Matsuda without her breathing down my neck."

"That would be a good idea."

Ren nodded dreading it slightly as he walked outside of the office, he knew he would have to condemn his friend. Although that changed when he saw Nadia stood there smiling as Matsuda handed her the notebook. His face was red in a bright blush as Nadia lifted up kissing his cheek walking away briskly.

"Damn you Matsuda!" Ren hurried over pushing Matsuda into the wall behind him glaring into his eyes. "What were you thinking?"

"What she gave me a very fulfilling offer Ren if you know what I mean." Ren turned away glaring at Nadia's back as she turned away. "I got Misa Misa's phone number!"

"Fuck you." He pushed Matsuda hard against the chest before hurrying after Nadia. "We aren't finished yet Matsuda!" when he rounded the corner he saw her walking more slowly now with ease. Little bitch…he thought to himself before yelling out to her. "Nadia!" he saw her turn before her eyes lit in fear as she bolted off. "Stop running! Damnit it."

Ren chased after her twisting around each corner sprinting down each hall until he stopped skidding towards the wall halting just before it. Nadia stood to his right fear on her face almost like she was seeing her death flashing before her eyes. A man clad in all black with a sweater mask stood their pointing the gun at her giving demands as to her giving him the notebook. There was on something one him though that stood out, dangling from his neck was an insignia of a group or a clan.

"Shit!" they were after the notebooks and they would kill Nadia to get to it. Reaching into his jacket inside pocket he pulled out his own pistol not taking anytime for a show down. Instead he just let a bullet fly from the barrel whizzing past Nadia's face. She screamed in surprise dropping down to the ground hearing the clash of steel that as the bullet knocked the gun out of the threat's hand. "Nadia get out of here run!" The man was scrambling crawling around the floor looking from the gun. Ren couldn't waist time, so he sprinted forward past Nadia taking aim just as the man rolled over aiming as well. A sound of three shots rang, and then the sound of steel smacking into flesh came to.

The man had been hit in the skull killing him instantly as the bone shielding the bran was shattered, but the mans bullets had hit Ren to. One in the knee knocking him down then the other getting him right in the chest thrusting him backwards knocking the wind out of him in a huge gasp.

A smile was on his face though the whole time as he hit the ground. He protected Nadia and the notebook, something he was proud of. As he drifted off he could hear Nadia's cries and the warmth of her body as she held him. The last words though he heard made him feel almost broken.

"Why would you want to die for me…?" Why…?