Chapter 1480
The others surrounded him immediately - touching, kissing, weeping, worshiping. And he loved them in return with every breath, every beat of his heart. One by one he kissed them again, deeper than before, his hands knowing them like prayers. And when he entered them that night, it wasn’t just with desire - it was with purpose. To bind them tighter. To fill them not just with lust, but with the light that now lived inside him.
He moved from one to the next, slow and sacred. Sophie moaned his name as he took her on the moss, her legs wrapped around him. Emma gasped and arched as his fingers danced between her thighs. Grace wept and clung to him as he entered her from behind, murmuring her name against her neck. Stella kissed Lucy while he took Lucy from behind, and Lucy’s cries turned into a song. Natalie begged him not to stop. Zoey commanded him to go harder. Rose whispered, "You’re ready now," as she straddled him and rolled her hips with divine precision.
And when he came again, deep in Rose’s core, the tree behind them split with light.
The island trembled.
And from deep below, something answered. Something vast. Something old.
Their love had become a key.
And they had just unlocked the final door.
The tremor beneath them faded slowly, like a breath being held just beneath the skin of the earth. The roots of the glowing tree curled inward, retracting into the earth as if satisfied, and a new silence descended - dense and heavy, not hollow but full. Full of something waiting.
Jude stood still in the soft light of the cavern, the golden sheen from the tree still clinging to his skin like a blessing or a mark. Around him, the women lay scattered in gentle poses of exhaustion and ecstasy, their bodies stretched across moss and stone, some tangled with each other, some curled into the soft pools of glowing water that formed around the tree’s base.