Chapter 1376
Light poured over them - soft, warm, tender. It filled their mouths, their lungs, their hearts. Jude fell to his knees, gasping, and each of his wives followed. Together, they cried out, their voices joined in a single, wordless sound. Their bodies lifted slightly from the ground, every nerve alight. The climax of light was unlike anything they’d known - beyond sex, beyond the flesh.
When the spiral vanished, they lay panting in a pile of limbs and love.
Their bodies glowed faintly now, not with magic, but memory.
It was done.
They had joined fully - not with watchers, or with some ancient force - but with each other . They were the spiral now.
Jude lay on his back, Lucy across his chest, her lips on his heart.
Sophie curled against one side, Rose the other.
Around them, the others lay wrapped in each other’s arms, sighing, touching, breathing.
And when the sun rose the next morning, its light struck the pool and refracted into a column of gold that rose straight into the sky.
A signal.
The island was theirs now.