Chapter 1536
Their connection ignited - deeper than flesh, older than memory. Her hips moved in harmony with the waves below, and the air around them shimmered faintly gold. The island felt it. Welcomed it. Grass curled lovingly around their limbs, and the sun pressed harder through the clouds, bathing them in heat.
She gasped softly when he entered her, her body arching, back taut as a bowstring. Jude’s hands slid up her ribs, his thumbs brushing the underswell of her breasts, the rhythm of their bodies finding a perfect, aching tempo. She rode him with purpose, not wild but reverent, her breath catching each time he thrust upward into her.
They locked eyes - her golden gaze burning, open, inviting.
"You’re still mine," she whispered.
"I always was," he answered.
She leaned forward, her breasts pressed to his chest, her lips at his throat. Their bodies moved faster now, the tension building, the wave rising.
"Say it," she breathed.
"I love you," he groaned.
She cried out as she came, trembling against him, her nails digging into his shoulders. Jude followed moments later, his whole body tensing, releasing, unraveling into her. The golden light around them pulsed once - twice - and then gently faded.
For a long moment, they simply lay there, tangled in one another, the sea sighing below, the wind threading through the grass.
Rose kissed his shoulder. "They’ll be waking soon."