"I'm gonna kill her!" RJ screamed, arms and legs flailing as he tried to break out of Noah's grip.

Steffy just laughed. She hadn't expected for her brother to show up, especially not when she had his boyfriend in bed and she was all but sitting on his face. The timing was perfect. Now she didn't even have to feign interest on Noah. There was no longer a need for seducing Noah and breaking RJ the same way he'd broken their father.

Karma was very much on Steffy's side.

"Would you calm down?!" Noah yelled while he struggled to keep RJ from freeing himself. "What are you even doing here, RJ?"

"I came to get some things. My portfolio is still here, for starters," RJ said, calming down slightly. Steffy cast her eyes around the loft until she saw what looked like a messenger bag on the floor, lying underneath the coffee table. "What is SHE doing here?"

With a smirk, Steffy twirled what remained of her hair. The brat was going to be the one paying her bill for the stylist: she would see to that. "I came to see Noah. I would have thought that was obvious."

"You can't have him! He's mine!" RJ screamed. Ignoring her brother, Steffy looked to Noah. There was something in his eyes that told her otherwise.

"Am I?" Noah asked calmly.

Then RJ deflated. His anger just left his body, and it seemed to take all of his energy with it. Steffy held back a snort.

"I..." RJ hung his head and Noah slowly released him.

"You dumped me. You were out all night with some other guy. It's all over the internet." Noah grabbed RJ's arm and Steffy watched what was going on with relish. She wished she had popcorn. "You said that I'm yours. Did you mean it? Do you want to try to work things out?"

"I thought I did, but then I walked in on you about to have sex with my sister! Eden is Eden. I always knew I would be second to her, but this bitch?" RJ whirled around and glared at his sister. "How the hell did that even happen?"

"It happened because I know what I want, RJ," Steffy taunted maliciously. "When I commit to something, I see it through to the end."

"I told her no," Noah claimed, RJ back to him. "I swear, I told her no."

"Was this before or after you climbed into bed with her?"

"He didn't fight me that hard," Steffy interjected, winking at Noah and enjoying RJ angrily stomping his little feet on the floor.

"DIE!" RJ screamed, pulling away from Noah and leaping at his sister. She stepped out of the way and he hit the floor.

She didn't even try to stifle the laughter. Steffy held her sides and knelt next to her brother and laughed at his pain. He had brought it all on himself. When RJ went after their father, when he went after her company, he had made a declaration of war. It was a war she would win, and he would realize that he was nowhere near being her equal.

"What the hell is wrong with you?" Noah asked as he helped RJ up, then pulled him away from Steffy before he could try another useless attack. "Both of you! You're brother and sister, right? What happened to make you two act like this?"

"She's a narcissistic cunt with a superiority complex and no friends."

"He's a vicious little bitch with no sense of loyalty or respect."

Noah blinked and shrugged. "Well, okay, those are true, but still! I come from a messed up family, but it's nowhere near this insane. You two need to stop whatever is going on here. Now!"

"No." RJ looked up into Noah's eyes and Steffy felt all the heat leave the loft. "After everything that happened... I would have just been mad. I would have been hurt, but it was inevitable. Eventually I would have accepted you and Eden. But this whore only came after you to hurt me. And you let her! Do you hate me that much for leaving you?"

For a moment, just a flash, Steffy didn't see the enemy when she saw her brother: there was just a kid in a lot of pain. Then she reminded herself that he had done all of it to himself and any pity she might have had vanished.

"I don't hate you, RJ. I never will."

"You say that now." RJ's voice was quiet. It was hard for Steffy to hear him, so she cautiously walked a little closer. Neither man noticed her approach. "When I was away, when you were here with Eden, I..."

"I wasn't here with Eden. I told you I wouldn't," Noah protested, but RJ shushed him.

"The where doesn't matter, Noah. All that matters is that we aren't working. We haven't worked for a while. I don't think either one of us has been as invested in this as we wanted to be. If we were, you never would've gone to Genoa City back in March. I wouldn't have cheated on you with Thad."

All the heat returned at once, and it seemed to crash onto Noah Newman's shoulders.

"You cheated on me? When? WHY?!"

RJ looked guilty. He also looked scared. Steffy glanced at the messenger bag, then back to her brother. This was entertaining as hell.

"The day I leaked the tape, Noah. I was mad at my dad. I hated him so much, but I was also mad at you for kissing Eden. I... It happened. The entire time I was gone, I was with Thad."

Steffy had no clue who this Thad was. It seemed Noah didn't, either.

"Who is Thad?" Noah asked, his voice cracking. He reached out to RJ, then pulled away. "I told you I kissed Eden and that it was a mistake, RJ. You forgave me. I chose you. I chose YOU!"

"Then why did you sleep with her?" RJ asked, tears falling. Steffy saw her extensions lying on the floor and picked them up. She probably wouldn't be able to save them, but it was worth a try.

"When you came home, I hadn't slept with Eden."

Then a door opened and Steffy gasped, as did RJ. Maya Avant tossed her hair over her shoulder and walked to the assembled.

"You were hiding in my closet," RJ observed, momentarily stunned.

"Noah's been letting me hide here. He said you would be okay with it. When you came home yesterday, that was my coat you saw. I was the one in the shower. Noah hadn't slept with that Eden woman yet."

"Yet?" RJ's confusion faded away and the pain in his eyes returned. Steffy bit back another laugh. Her brother looked back to Noah and repeated himself. "Yet?"

"After you left yesterday, I ran into Eden, I guess. I don't remember anything. But you'd already said we were over."

"And that makes it okay?!" RJ yelled, stomping his feet and waving his hands in the air.

"You were already sleeping with another man! You just told me that!" Noah yelled back before storming away and to the big bay window.

"She's not getting away with this," RJ muttered, not looking at Steffy. He left the loft and Noah looked to the doorway.

Noah glanced at Maya and both were nervous.

"Would he hurt her?" Maya asked, looking as out-of-place as she sounded. "Noah?"

"He punched Taylor in the face."

"Who wouldn't?"

Steffy wanted to object, but she also wanted them to forget she was there. Her mission objective had changed.

"That's not the point, Maya," Noah claimed. "He's off the rails. We have to get to Eden before he does."

There was a moment of reluctance: Maya clearly didn't want to leave her sanctuary, but then she nodded at Noah and grabbed her purse. They both gave chase and neither bothered to tell Steffy to leave.

After a couple minutes of waiting, Steffy walked to the coffee table and retrieved the bag. There were a handful of cardboard tubes with plastic caps hanging out of it. It was obvious what they were, but Steffy opened one anyway. She smiled.

RJ had all but handed her the newest Logan & Moore collection, and with it he had also given her the one thing that was guaranteed to destroy him and his company once and for all.

B&B

RJ had been to Spencer Publications a few times when he was younger. His aunt had been the CEO, and she was engaged to his father, so they would sometimes visit her there when he was home from school, but he'd never made a habit of hanging out there. Not even after Liam had taken over the company.

It occurred to RJ that Liam never really invited him to his place. Liam was always either at the loft or too busy to do the social thing. He doubted that his friend would want him coming to his place of business after this visit, anyway.

"Hi," RJ said to the receptionist. "Can you tell me where Bill Spencer's office is? I'm his nephew, RJ."

"We're all aware of who you are," the young man said, not even bothering to look up. "Third floor."

"Nothing more specific?"

"Do you have an appointment?"

RJ glared at the cunty twink and then wandered off to the elevator. Eden might not even be at Bill's office anyway, but she was his personal slave so it was the most logical place to start. And they needed to talk. This wasn't his friend. This wasn't the person he had become so close to in Paris.

But he wasn't the same person he had been in Paris, either.

When he got off the elevator, RJ wandered for a couple minutes until he saw the most obnoxious looking door with a sword carved into it and knew he had found it. Angry, he threw it open. Both Bill and Eden were there. Bill didn't matter.

"What do you think you're doing?" Bill looked angry, but RJ ignored him. "This is my office."

"I know what you did." RJ walked into the office and slammed the door behind him. "God. You're a real piece of shit."

"What do you think I did?" Bill asked, standing up and trying to look intimidating.

Looking at his uncle, RJ sighed. "Shut up, Bill. This isn't about you. It's about her."

Eden tucked her hair behind her ears and also rose to her feet. "What about me, RJ?"

"You slept with Noah." RJ stepped up to Eden and stared into her eyes. There was no confusion to be found: she knew exactly what he was talking about. "Who the hell are you?"

"I'm the destination. You're the rest stop." Eden smiled and RJ wanted to slap her. "He came to me, RJ. He came to me. Noah kissed me, he made love to me. He loved me. You were just a hole he could put his dick in."

Then he did slap her. Bill laughed.

"You came to Los Angeles! You told me that you knew I was in love with Noah when we were all still in school, and that you didn't care. When did that change?"

Eden punched RJ back and he fell to the floor. She was a lot stronger than he had expected.

"It changed when I found out you two were sleeping together! We were supposed to be friends, RJ. You two were making out in the airport the same day I left for Chicago. Were you laughing about me? About how stupid Eden is for having no idea?"

RJ rubbed his jaw and saw Bill trying his best to stifle his laughter. Then he focused attention back on Eden. She was why he was there. She was the one who had ruined everything!

"No, Eden. We weren't sleeping together behind your back. We didn't get involved until after you had left Paris. I did nothing wrong! You were the one who came to Los Angeles and seduced my boyfriend!" RJ screamed while Eden chuckled.

Shaking her head, she looked down at him hatefully. "Why won't you admit it, RJ? Noah doesn't love you. I didn't do anything to Noah. He always initiated it. In fact, when we made love, he didn't even use a condom. I could be carrying his child right now. You could never."

Eyes narrowed, RJ watched as Eden touched her stomach. It wasn't true. Noah was the child of a sex addict: he always used protection. Always. Something wasn't adding up. Then RJ remembered Noah saying he didn't remember sleeping with Eden.

"You raped him."

Eden's face lost a little bit of colour and that was all the proof he needed. Noah hadn't cheated. The only cheater was RJ himself. But Eden was a rapist.

"What are you talking about?"

Closing his eyes, RJ thought over what Noah had told him. He had never lied to RJ. Never. The closest he had come was not telling RJ that Eden was in town, but he told him about the kiss when he didn't have to. And the clothes he had seen in the loft were Maya's.

"He said he chose me. If Noah was still confused, he would have said so."

"If he chose you, then why did we make love? He doesn't want you, RJ."

RJ noticed that Bill was being silent. It was very unlike Bill. "He didn't fuck you, Eden. What did you use on him? Crushed pills in a drink? GHB? A lead pipe to the back of the head? Cough syrup?!"

"I didn't rape, Noah. Stop saying that!" Eden screamed. She jumped on RJ, knocking him to the ground, and started to strangle him. "I didn't! WE. MADE. LOVE."

Looking to Bill, RJ reached out for help, but the man didn't move. Eden was too strong to push or shake off. Bill just watched as RJ struggled to breathe.

"What are you doing?!" The door opened and Maya and Noah ran into the office. Of course they had followed RJ.

Noah tried to pull Eden off of RJ, but she didn't budge until Maya kicked her in the face.

"That's enough," Maya yelled as she knelt down and put herself between the two white people. "Lady, I don't know you, but if lay another finger on the kid you'll be dealing with me."

"He hit me first," Eden argued as Noah held her. "I was just defending myself."

"It didn't look like it to me," Maya replied, helping RJ to his feet. He was too busy gulping in air to speak.

"Why didn't you help him, Bill?" Noah asked the magnate. "Why didn't you stop them?"

"It wasn't my fight," Bill answered with a simple shrug.

"Noah. Listen," RJ gasped. "Eden... She..."

He didn't get to tell what she had done because Eden chose that moment to slam the back of her head into Noah's nose, and then she stomped on his foot. Pushing Noah away, Eden stepped forward and slugged RJ, then kicked him in the crotch.

"LIAR!" The woman roared and drove her knee into RJ's chin. Maya tried to step in, but Eden punched her in the throat. She brought her foot up and kicked Noah in the stomach when he tried again to intervene.

Bill just watched.

"You won't ruin this for me." Eden grabbed RJ by e back of his pants and the collar of his shirt and threw him. He stumbled across the office until he slammed into the big window behind Bill's desk. Then Eden ran up and kicked him through it.

Time slowed down as RJ began to fall. He reached out for something to grab onto: anything that would keep him from falling to the pavement below. The only thing he could reach was Eden's foot.

She followed him out the shattered window, screaming Noah's name. Both tumbled the three stories to the Spencer Publications parking lot. Then the world went black.