It was true that Joanne did fall asleep, but it was just a light one. It was not long before she felt that the car had stopped. She also opened her eyes. As expected, she was home. Simon was holding a pair of shoes and waited outside the car door.

She pushed the car door open. Simon laid down the pair of shoes and said, "Young Madam, are you alright? Oh, yes, Mr. Chris is here."

"My brother!?" Joanne smiled brightly out of surprise, "of course I am fine!" She put on her shoes and ran into the room, without paying any attention to Brian who was behind her.

Simon sighed sadly, "Young Master, it seems that when it comes to impact on Young Madam, you cannot beat Mr. Chris."

Brian got down from the car with a sullen look. By contrast, Joanne was much happier.

"Brother!" As soon as Joanne saw Chris, she just ran at him and bumped into Chris's arms all of a sudden. "How could you come?!"

"Mr. Morgan called and informed me that you had been abducted, how could I not come?" Looking Joanne up and down carefully, Chris inquired, "Were you hurt? What had Jordan and his brother done to you?"

"Don't worry, I am fine!" Joanne took a turn for Chris to look at. "Jordan and his brother are actually tigers made of paper!"

Chris smiled and shook his head. "What did you do to them?"

"Just getting them tied up..." Joanne said with much regret. "It was inconvenient for me to beat them a good ass while wearing a dress."

"As for beating people, I will be of your service. You don't need to do it by yourself," Chris said while stroking his sister's hair. "It is late, now you go upstairs to take a shower and go to bed early."

Having been obedient and always did what Chris'd told her, Joanne went upstairs tamely. Chris watched her figure disappearing around the corner of the stairs. The tenderness on his face was frozen inch by inch and turned into bone-poking coldness.

At that right moment, Brian walked in from outside. Chris said, "Brian, let's talk."

These two men were both sweetheart dream lovers of numerous women in Arlington. They matched each other as for their appearance and ability. There also existed so many similarities when it came to their respective means of handling things. Having already guessed out what Chris was going to say, Brian responded in advance, "It was an accident this time. There would be no next time, I promise."

Brian never made a promise easily, but once he did, it would be one as good as gold. Knowing his style well, Chris smiled and said, "I will trust you for one more time. Moreover, regarding tomorrow's news, I would not like to see any new coverage which would be against Joanne, neither do you. Am I right?"

"You don't need to imply," Brian answered. "I know what to do." His eyes were as sharp as those of hawks.

Chris smiled contently, "It is late. I will not bother you. See you then."

Of course, Brian would not escort Chris off out of courtesy. Instead, he directly went upstairs, entered the study room which was adjacent to the room and called through Gavin's phone.

"A great hell of fuss had been made and the whole thing had been fully disclosed. I already received phone calls from so many media." Gavin asked, "What should we say?"

Brian simply illustrated him the solutions. Then Gavin knew that in any case should he protect Joanne specifically.

"No worries, I will handle it well." Gavin continued after some pause, "Oh, I forgot something, Rosalyn... seemed to be looking for you and it sounded very urgent. Would you like to call her back?"

Speaking of Rosalyn, another issue came into Brian's mind, "It was strange of Ethan Brooks to abduct Joanne and Rosalyn at the same time. You check it out."

"Yes!" It was until this time that Gavin was suddenly enlightened. "Though the news of your getting married was spread over, only those people who attended tonight's banquet party knew that it was Joanne whom you got married to, isn't it? No way could Jordan and his brother knew that so quickly. So you mean... someone had arranged for them to do so? Who would it be? Rosalyn?"

"It was unlikely to be her." Brian said, "Check up on Ava."

Gavin nodded over the phone and agreed, "Based on Ava's intelligence level, it was highly possible that she would be that one. Maybe neither did Rosalyn know about this. Let me handle it. For this kind of small case, You will get my answer tomorrow morning."

Quickly, Gavin got the answer out from Jordan within less than one night's time. Abducting Joanne, Rosalyn together and forcing Brian to make choices was exactly the idea Ava worked out for them.

Ava personally thought that this idea was amazing!

"Not only could this make Joanne realize that to be Mrs. Lambert was no easy thing, but also let her see the facts straight that you were the most important one in Brian's heart!" Ava said while holding Rosalyn's hands cheerfully, "For tomorrow's headline, it must be 'Brian abandoned his sweet wife to protect Rosalyn. True love was tested out at a critical time!'"

"Ava, you thought too lightly of Joanne," Rosalyn said. "Moreover, you forgot the fact that she had a brother whose ability was no worse than that of Brian. When it came to tomorrow's headline, which press office and magazine could have the courage to embarrass her?"

Upon thinking, Ava agreed with Rosalyn. "But we also did not suffer any loss. At that moment, you were Brian's choice! This had fully proved that to Brian, you were far more important than Joanne. You should be happy about it!"

Rosalyn just smiled faintly.

Other people might not notice at that time, but she saw Joanne's hands moving and it was obvious that Brian had also noticed her motion. It reminded her of the fact that Joanne worked in the police bureau. Consequently, it was not that hard for her to figure out that the motion Joanne had done were actually signals and code words.

Brian chose her instead at a critical moment, and it was just an outward presentation to deceive other people.

If she was really that important, why didn't Brian stay and accompany her? He did not even pay her any glance before he pursued after Joanne. Why till now didn't he ask her whether she was still afraid or not?

Brian protected her and instead he came to Joanne's rescue regardless of danger.

Then who was the more important one?

"Oh, my, you are still waiting for Brian's call!" Ava pushed against Rosalyn. "You had been waiting ever since you fell for him. You had been waiting for him to pay attention to you, to make you famous, to love you back and to be in confession to you. You have seen the fore wishes come into reality. How about the left back ones? He married someone else! My own opinion would be that you should be more initiative and lay down your queen-style. And it should start with you making him a personal call on your own."

Ava forcibly pressed the mobile into Rosalyn's hands.

Rosalyn admitted that it was true that her own self-esteem was doing mischief before. She thought that she was the only person in the world that could be worthy of Brian. So she never took the initiative. She was just creating gossips about affairs between her and Brian, which was to purposely make the whole world think that they were a perfect couple and then other women would step backward wisely.

But it never occurred to her that there was a woman called Joanne in the world who had become the wife of Brian quietly.

Now she felt a bit afraid. She was willing to take the initiative to call Brian...