Chapter 481 - You were the inspiration

Sky rolled her eyes thinking about Kris. Sam who controlled the smile commented, "You are right. He is worse than dumba*s because he offered so much but you are sold off for free."

Her smile froze for few seconds before grinning, "So Sam! what's your cost? If I can't buy, I will help you sell you off for a better price."

Sam who tried to tease her was speechless. "You win!" Sam said and closed his eyes, Sky who was sitting diagonally made paper balls and irritated him till they reached manor.

Sam alighted from the car, ignored her and went into a room. Maid greeted her and said they had four rooms and in them, one was her room and another was taken by Sam. Left was two and three were standing.

If Joe was Loran or Jai, she would have shared with them. But Joe?

Arlo decided to rest in the living room as he didn't want her to think too much. "I will..."

"Brother Joe, we will take this one..."

When Arlo heard till here, he thought she was sharing a room with Joe but he was surprised by her continuation.

"...You take the next one."

Joe nodded and left. Sky asked for extra duvet before going into the room. She saw the couch and decided to sleep on that. After getting fresh, she laid on the couch. By the time Arlo came out, Sky was asleep sooner due to physical strain...

When Sky woke up in the morning, she found herself on the bed and Arlo was on the couch.

Controlling the urge to throw the pillow at him, she opened the curtains to see the view. Since they came at late night, she didn't know how was the surrounding. All she could see was green and its shades until her eyes could reach. There was cleanly maintained lawn then farms.

She went out and saw Joe doing pull-ups holding a tree branch near the tree to his balcony. Sam doing stretching near his balcony. Inside her room, Arlo was still sleeping. Hearing her stomach grumble, she got fresh soon.

Seeing Arlo folding his duvet as he stretched his neck and knees, She wanted to punch on his face. Her height was a perfect fit on the couch, he was taller, hence she gave him the bed but he paid for it by making her sleep on the bed.

"Good morning!" Arlo greeted her.

Sky hummed, "Get fresh and come to lawn table for breakfast."

Arlo had just taken a peek from the glass wall and noticed white table and chairs arrangements hence he guessed it like that and hummed.

While having breakfast, they heard what farming they were doing as they took care of the Manor. Seeing her eyes brighten up hearing about different colored tulips farm, Sam asked, "How to go to tulips farm?"

The maid informed and asked one of the workers to take them to the tulip farm. Seeing grinning Sky, he threw a napkin at her who was sitting opposite to him on the table, "We have to be back before lunch. After it, we will leave from here."

"As you say, Captain Samuel Cox." Sky smiled and finished breakfast soon before going to the tulips farm.

She knew Sam could tell small changes in her expression so she wasn't surprised much. But the other two didn't know how they came to conclusion so fast. They two could only follow them...

All left the manor after lunch and reached the Airport after checking on waterfalls on their way. Joe's teammates joined them for dinner. During dinner, Arlo received a message and opened his Harley mailbox on Joe's teammate's laptop.

A smile crept on his face after checking one mail and directed the laptop to Sky, "Your triangular tiny house and cylindrical glass tree house won the award in Modern tiny and treehouse categories respectively. Congratulations!"

Sam and Joe knew about her designs and congratulated her. Sky was still processing when he said and went through the mail.

The Architectonic committee presents awards every year in many different categories. In that, those two were different categories. Sky had approved to send all their three houses of Harley resort, Mall and apartment designs to the committees when The Architectonic committee opened for entries.

Sky went through full mail and got to know nest treehouse got the unique architecture award too. The award ceremony was in February and the personal emails have sent to architects mail. That is Sky Barton named mail ID.

Sky reaction was too late, "Thank you to you three. I am calling Loran."

Sky took out her phone but Sam stopped, "He must be sleeping by now."

Sky shrugged, "He will be over the moon after hearing me."

Sam couldn't do anything when it came to the Barton brothers. Joe sighed silently and continued eating hearing his teammates.

When the call went through and Loran received, he was in a panic state, "Sister Sky, what happened? Are you fine? you don't call simply at this hour, what's wrong?..."

"Dumbo! Relax, I'm fine. I called to congratulate you." Her line confused trio on the table.

"What? Sister Sky, Did you call the wrong number? I haven't done anything recently to be congratulated." Another confused voice heard on the phone.

"Dumbo! My two designed house structure won the awards." Sky said in a clear and soft voice to let him analyze what she was saying.

She turned on the speaker for Sam and waited for a few seconds for the response. A loud excited voice came from the phone, "Sister Sky! You are fantastic. Congratulations and celebration..."

His voice heard to nearby tables making them turn towards their table. Sam and Arlo shook their heads resignedly as Joe's self-mocking smile froze.

The excitement between his wish and Loran's happiness was earth and sky difference. He was happy for her but it didn't hold much importance to him. Hearing Loran going on and on, he understood their difference.

"... But sister Sky, why did you congratulate me? It isn't like I helped you design."

Finally, Loran stopped with a question. "That's because you were the inspiration for those designs. And you will receive the award on behalf of me."