Out of excitement, Joanne held Brian pretty tightly. She was abnormally excited, laughing and jumping at the same time. It was quite a while later that she realized that she had somewhat overreacted. Then she raised her head and looked at Brian sheepishly.

Brian was much calmer than her. He lowered his head and looked at her. The light smile deep inside his eyes was faintly discernible. He looked like a modest adult who was looking at a super excited child due to the fact that the child had got the toy he had been looking forward to for a long time.

And her hands actually were circling around his waist!

She withdrew her hands back rapidly in the way that the rubber band bounced itself back. Two streams of scarlet colors floated on Joanne's both white cheeks, "Let's, let's go. It should be other people's turn to play tennis."

Brian handed the racket to the ball boy conveniently, held Joanne's hands and walked towards the rest area under the sun umbrella.

If at previous times, Joanne would have thought of it as a natural thing out of habit. However, after experiencing what had happened a moment ago, she always felt that those people in the rest area were all looking at her, especially Freya who was heartless. She smiled ambiguously. It seemed that she had peeked through the big secret between Joanne and Brian.

Joanne simply lowered her head to hide her blushing and followed behind Brian blindly.

There should come the competition of Chris&Maya playing against Travis&Freya next.

Freya today did not haunt over Chris the way she had done at previous times. The atmosphere between these four actually remained to be in a relaxing and comfortable state. But being an insider, Gavin placed his long legs on the table, "Actually, it is the rally between these two couples that is really worth watching."

At this time, the waiter of the clubhouse sent over the iced beverage to these a few macho men and gave Joanne a glass of freshly squeezed juice added with ice instead. Joanne took one glass and intended to drink the juice inside. However, the juice was taken away before it had reached her mouth.

Her hands were still of the motion of holding the glass. She looked at Brian confusedly, "Well? You also like drinking grapefruit juice, don't you?"

Brian did not even bother to look at Joanne. He put the glass back on the waiter's tray, "Change it with another glass of juice without ice added for her."

"Alright."

The waiter went back while carrying the grapefruit juice added with ice. Then Joanne started to realize that she had been just over her period. If she followed the doctor's advice, indeed she would not be suitable yet to drink the cold beverage. However, it was Brian who had thought about that for her instead.

She uttered a sound of "Ahem", turned her head to look towards the tennis court somewhat awkwardly and somewhat sweetly.

Mixed double already began.

As for Chris and Travis, there was not second to none. The key to the final victory lied in Freya and Maya.

As what Brian had said, Maya's playing skill was pretty awesome. She was quite of the grace of a professional tennis player, who would catch the ball accurately and serve the ball cunningly. It seemed that she had intended to use up Freya's physical strength. She served her every ball towards Freya's direction, which made Freya rushed around the whole field. And she coped with Freya's fighting back with ease.

"Who do you think will win?" Joanne asked.

Brian replied, "It is obvious that Maya is better than Freya when it comes to tennis playing."

Joanne watched for some more while and shook her head, "Freya will win."

So far, Freya almost had hit the ball out after catching the ball awkwardly every time. But Maya did it with skill and ease. Brian did not understand why Joanne would assert that Freya would win. He raised the tip of his brow curiously and said, "Are you sure?"

"While at college, Freya was at the tennis club and she was also the club's vice leader. It was she who had taught me how to play tennis. In the sophomore period, she competed at the City Tennis Tournament on behalf of our college and won the singles championship, the tag team championship and the mixed doubles run up." Joanne was pretty convinced, "So it is impossible that she will be beaten by Maya."

However, when judged from the performance in the first half, Freya actually was not that awesome as what Joanne had described. Brian pondered for a while and said, "Is she studying Maya's moves?"

Joanne smiled, "I don't know what she is thinking. But she definitely will recover the score."

What happened next totally matched what Joanne had expected. Freya was like a ferocious beast which had woken up all of a sudden. When Maya acted fast, then she would act much faster than her. When Maya served the ball cunningly, then she would do that in a more cunning way. Previously it had been Maya who had made her run around the whole field, now she beat Maya so badly that Maya even did not where to run to.

Freya was always not that easy to be trifled with.

She gradually leveled up the scores which she had previously fallen behind. The first half ended when the two sides' scores stood tie.

"Freya, you are amazing." Travis handed the racket over to the ball boy, took the mineral water and opened it. Then he handed the water over to Freya, "I thought you would really have been beaten by other people like a monkey."

"Go to hell." Freya wiped off the sweats bursting out on her forehead, "I am exhausted. If she had not been against me in the first half time, I would not have made any truly hard calls. While in the second half, you better take it easy. I want to win! I have never been beaten in the tennis court!"

Travis gave Freya a high five smilingly, "Take it easy. I definitely will not let you lose."

Freya glanced at the other side of the net. Maya was fetching a towel and handing it over to Chris. For such a simple move, this woman actually could play it in an elegant and graceful way, which gave out a sense of thoughtfulness. While Chris took the towel over naturally and wiped off his sweat. It was unknown what he had said to Maya. Maya smiled then while covering her mouth in a bashful but not petty way, who was extremely enchanting when seen far away.

"In contrast, Freya, you are somewhat impatient." Travis said smilingly, "As for this Maya, she is known as the most professional secretary in A City. If you want to fight over Chris with her, I guess it may take some effort."

"It won't be much more than the efforts which I have taken while chasing after Chris over these years."

Freya was determined to win solemnly. She brought Travis together and interchanged the field with Chris. Then the second half began.

It was a crucial time to determine victory. Freya dared not to be negligent at all. She took strict precautions against her opponents and attacked aggressively, who was like a wild beast which only knew about edging forward and which was fearless.

Joanne watched the competition, took a sip of the grapefruit juice without ice added that the waiter had freshly sent over and said, "Back to the time of participating in the City Tennis Tournament, Freya won the championship in this exact same way."

Brian replied, "You two share some commonness in your characters."

Joanne was startled, "What are they?"

"Not willing to admit being defeated easily."

It was just that Freya's not willing to admit being beaten was of an aggressive style, which would be more like a kind of clattering haughtiness. She stood in the highest place and announced to the world that she would not lose. So even having been refused by Chris frequently, she would still continue chasing after him.

While for Joanne's not willing to admit being beaten, it was a kind of stubbornness. For example, when she ran into the pending criminal cases and when she was told by other people that the cases could not be solved, she would still hide in the lab silently and carry out her experiments, inference repeatedly until she finally restored the process of how the whole case had taken place.

This was also the reason why they would have been good friends to each other for ten years even they were totally different in their external personalities.

Joanne smiled, "Mr. Lambert, it turned out that you had known me so well."

Brian raised the tip of his mouth, "If I did not know my own wife, then whom should I know?"

Joanne's cheek heated up. She signaled him to watch the tennis competition. She also had a look at the score on her own, which showed that Freya had taken the lead, but Maya only fell behind her for one score only.

It might be until the last moment that the answer of who would win and who would lose between these four people would be finally revealed.

Unexpectedly, Freya seemed to have gone mad all of a sudden. She hit the balls with all her might. She played tennis much more forcibly than the national players did in the games. If the girl who endured her attack were not of extremely valiant physical strength, she would definitely be overwhelmed.

This was Freya's explosive forces.

Joanne smiled towards Brian, "Freya would definitely win the game."

At this time, Maya hit Freya's ball back and then gestured out a posture of suspension. However, Freya's attention then was all focused on the ball. Travis intended to pull her to stop. But it was too late. She waved the racket mercilessly. Then the tennis ball of olive green color flew back at Maya again--

However, Maya was so exhausted already that she had thrown the rackets away. The tennis ball flew right at her face. Chris's face changed color. He threw the rackets away and ran over. But there was not enough time for him to pull Maya away.

"Bang--"

The tennis ball hit on Maya's forehead heavily.

It was until this time that Freya finally came to her sense. She looked at Maya who was covering her forehead and then looked at the tennis ball bouncing, jumping on the ground. Her brain blanked out all of a sudden.

"Freya!" Chris's angry voices hit at her, "Didn't you see her already calling for a suspension?"

His roaring made Freya confused. She shook her head confusedly, "Yes, I did not."

She had not seen that for real. However, from Chris's perspective, her current look was unreasonable and indifferent instead. He sneered and went to check over Maya's injury.

Freya also went over and came across Chris removing the hand carefully which Maya had used to cover the forehead. Maya frowned. She ached so badly that she gasped continuously. A small part of her white forehead turned into a red color. She seemed to have been injured badly.

She said in an apologetic way, "Miss Parker, let me send you to the hospital."

Travis ran over hurriedly and saw that Maya had been seriously wounded. He said, "Miss Parker. sorry, Freya did not do it on purpose. I apologize to you for her. At that time, her attention was..."

"You apologize for Freya?" Chris stared at Travis coldly, "What is your relationship with her? Do you have the standpoint and qualification?"

Travis was about to say something. Freya caught him by the arm. He thought that Freya was going to defend Chris. His heart was chilled all of a sudden. But he did not expect that Freya roared suddenly.

"Chris, you should have been less eccentric here! Whereby could you speak to Travis in that way? What is your relationship with Miss Parker? I am wrong and I do apologize! I will be responsible for the medical expenses and I will shoulder all the responsibilities! If something does really happen, you could feel free to look for me at my home! You are rather baffling!"

She held Travis's hands and left upon finishing her roaring, without catching sight of Chris's eyes which almost would be mounted up with anger.

When they were out of the way, Travis uttered a sound of "Yoho", "The look of you getting mad is pretty frightening. Are you not afraid that Chris would hate you more because of this?"

Freya replied with a "Humph", "I am just that fierce. The fact that he does not like me had been ongoing for these many years. Who cares!"

"Don't think that I don't know anything. You were jealous of him defending Maya. But you could not vent your anger at Maya." Travis handed the water over to Freya, "But I believed that you had not done it on purpose. Your attention at that time was all on the ball. I saw it all."

Freya's voice was somewhat dull, "Thanks."

Joanne had wished Freya would win. But she never thought she would see a scene like this. She sent an ice bag to Chris and said, "Brother, you can send Miss Parker to the hospital first."

"You can keep playing. By the way, tell Brian that I would leave first."

Chris left with Maya together, which was seen by Freya. However, she felt nothing at all. It happened that she walked back and then she was under the sun umbrella, where she saw Brian sitting over. She greeted with him smilingly, "Hi, boss! By the way, I will tell you one thing - it is related to your Joanne. She rarely wears short skirts. While in the sophomore period, I took part in the badminton competition and tricked her into being my cheerleader. That time she finally was dressed in a short skirt, which was rare. Then the male tennis players at our school rushed around the whole filed as if they had been insane. Our school made big bucks that day, which could be somewhat credited to your Joanne's wearing a short skirt."

Travis thought if he let Freya talk further, then she would become a crazy chicken. He took her away and got out of the way. It happened that Joanne walked back at this time.

Brian stared around at her up and down, if she were also by his side when he was playing the ball, whatever she was dressed with, she would still be a stimulant to him.

"Why do you look at me in that way?" Joanne blinked her eyes smilingly, "You just find out how extremely beautiful and young your wife is all of a sudden, don't you?"

Brian raised the tip of his brow, "Regarding that, I found it out ages ago."