Chapter 1348: Chapter 1348

Vines had woven a living arch behind them, sealing the path. The ground glittered faintly beneath their feet, tiny blossoms blooming with each step. In the distance, the ocean roared louder - not with anger, but like applause.

Susan came up beside him, kissed his shoulder, and said, "We need to mark this place."

He nodded. "We’ll build something."

Rose smirked, brushing hair from her face. "Or grow something. We don’t build anymore. We plant. "

They walked back toward the camp slowly, letting their fingers trail through the air, touching leaves, tracing bark, whispering to vines that responded by curling gently toward them. The jungle knew them now. It didn’t resist. It welcomed.

By the time they reached their treehouse compound, even that looked changed.

The platforms were intact, but the vines that held them had thickened. Flowers Jude had never seen before curled up the ropes. The thatched roofs gleamed with dew that glowed faintly even in the sun. The hammock swung slowly on its own, and their fire pit now smoldered with green-blue flame.

Sophie stepped into the center and turned in a slow circle. "It’s listening. Everything. All at once."

Emma kissed her cheek. "Then let’s show it we’re grateful."

What followed wasn’t a ceremony.

It was a celebration.

They ate together, feeding each other fruits with sticky fingers and stolen kisses. They washed one another in the river again, but this time with laughter, splashing, slippery skin pressed together in a dozen loving ways. When they returned to the camp, the sun was beginning to set - and none of them wanted to sleep apart.

Jude lay on the largest platform that night, his wives curled around him like petals. One by one, they took him again, but not just for the hunger. They moved like they were painting prayers with their bodies - each kiss a word, each thrust a confession, each cry a vow.

Lucy climbed atop him first, her pace slow, deliberate, fingers interlaced with his as she whispered his name again and again. She moaned into his mouth when he came, and held him tight like he might float away.

Then Layla took her place, riding him with her eyes locked on his, her body moving like ocean tides - rising and falling until they both broke like waves.

Later, Rose led him to the edge of the platform and knelt, her mouth a blessing, her eyes reverent. When he spilled against her lips, she swallowed it with a soft sound of pleasure and kissed his chest as if sealing something sacred.

And then Stella and Grace joined him together - one kissing his neck, the other easing herself down onto him while her sister-wife kissed between her legs. They moved in perfect sync, gasping each other’s names, whispering Jude’s name like a psalm.

It didn’t stop until morning.

And when the light came, they were whole.

Jude sat up slowly, the world quiet except for the soft breathing of those he loved. Lucy’s head lay on his chest. Sophie curled against his back. Rose had one leg thrown lazily over his hip, her hand resting at his heart.

Emma stirred and stretched. "So," she murmured, "what now?"

He smiled and kissed her shoulder. "Now, we begin."

"Begin what?" Grace asked sleepily.

"Whatever we want," Jude replied. "We’re not surviving anymore."

"We’re becoming," Rose said, eyes still closed.

"Yes," whispered Lucy, sighing happily. "Together."

And far beneath the earth, where the stone still hummed, the goddess smiled.

The morning spread golden fingers through the canopy, scattering light across their bodies like blessing oil. Jude sat at the center of the platform, legs crossed, back straight, with twelve women in varying states of glowing sleep nestled around him. His breath was steady. Deep. His skin still buzzed with the touch of every hand, every kiss, every whispered surrender from the night before. But something else stirred beneath it now. A pull.

Lucy opened her eyes first. She reached for him without speaking, her hand settling over his heart. "It’s not done, is it?" she whispered.

"No," Jude said softly, "it’s just beginning."

Emma sat up beside them, her hair tangled like ivy. "The island’s still shifting. I feel it in my ribs." She pressed her palm to her side. "Like the roots are growing upward."

"Into us," Stella said, her voice dreamy as she stretched across the floorboards. "We didn’t just offer ourselves to her. She accepted. She’s answering."

Sophie was next to rise, naked and tall in the light, her skin still marked with faint trails of gold. She walked to the edge of the platform, scanning the trees. "There’s something ahead. A clearing we haven’t seen. It’s waiting for us."

Zoey emerged from the hammock and tied her hair up with a strand of vine, her blade resting lazily at her side but her eyes sharp. "Then let’s go. Before it vanishes again."

They dressed only partially - woven wraps, loose cloth, or nothing at all. Modesty had long since melted into irrelevance. Their bodies were temples now, loved and loving, fearless and known. Jude rose last, surrounded by hands adjusting his sash, kisses pressed to his back and shoulders, and smiles that lingered like warmth.

The journey into the forest was strangely silent. Birds watched them but didn’t sing. The breeze moved but didn’t rustle. The island, for once, wasn’t warning them. It was guiding them.

They moved in a line, single file, but there was no fear of being separated. Wherever one stepped, flowers opened. Wherever Jude touched bark, it brightened faintly. They followed a path that hadn’t been there before - one that curved around a stone basin, across a stream that now shimmered red-gold, and under an arch of tangled trees that leaned together like lovers whispering secrets.

And then the forest opened.

The clearing was circular and massive, ringed by towering trunks and wrapped in light that seemed to bend and flow like water. At the center stood a tall pillar of stone - smooth, pale, and humming gently.

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