Stuck in an Island with Twelve Beautiful Women
Chapter 1422

Chapter 1422: Chapter 1422

When the bloom pulsed again, it lifted into the air - hovering above them, scattering drops of nectar like rain. Each drop that touched skin sent shivers down spines, hardened nipples, parted thighs. No one could speak. Words would’ve ruined it.

Jude took Grace from behind while she kissed Zoey’s breasts. Layla straddled Emma’s face while Sophie held her hips steady. Natalie and Stella kissed furiously, bodies locked, hands lost in hair. Rose knelt over Jude’s face and moaned his name like it was sacred.

Over and over and over again, they came. Each climax fed the bloom’s light. The petals shimmered brighter. The walls of the chamber began to glow with the same symbols that danced on their skin now - written in fire, memory, and the oldest language: touch.

When it was done, the flower began to dim. Slowly, peacefully. Its purpose fulfilled.

They collapsed in a pile of limbs and gasps, their bodies coated in sweat and light.

Jude looked up at the ceiling, blinking against the afterglow, his hand resting on Rose’s thigh.

"What now?" he asked, his voice raw.

Rose smiled, brushing a lock of hair from his face. "Now... we rise."

They stirred slowly, not from exhaustion, but from the soft, almost reverent shift in the air. The bloom above them had gone still, its petals closed once again, but not in silence - it hummed, faintly, as if alive and content. The light had receded into the walls, leaving only the symbols glowing dimly in pulse with their breath.

Rose was the first to stand. Her body was slick with dew and sweat, radiant under the soft bioluminescence. She reached out and pulled Jude to his feet. Their skin touched, bare and warm, but there was something new layered beneath it now - something magnetic. Every point of contact sent a subtle jolt through him, not pain but resonance.

"We aren’t done," she whispered, and the others began to rise around them, graceful and unhurried.

Stella stretched like a cat, her limbs long and glistening. Lucy stood beside her, her fingers already lacing with Zoey’s. Sophie and Emma emerged from the tangle of limbs still entwined, Sophie’s hair wild and tangled around Emma’s shoulder. Susan, silent but glowing, wrapped an arm around Natalie’s waist, who leaned into her like it was second nature.

Jude’s chest was still heaving gently, not from exertion, but from a fullness he couldn’t explain. He had made love to them countless times, had touched every part of them, inside and out. But this - this was something different. They hadn’t just taken each other; they’d become something together.

"What did we wake up?" he asked again, quieter this time.

Rose looked toward the closed bloom. "It’s not what. It’s who."

Layla turned, strands of her dark hair stuck to her damp back. "You think the island’s alive?"

"No," Rose replied. "I think she was alive. And now she’s waking again. Through us."

Scarlet laughed softly and kissed Jude’s shoulder as she passed him. "So we’re her priestesses now?"

Rose shrugged. "Maybe we’re her daughters."

Stella ran her hand across one of the glowing glyphs on the wall. It shimmered brighter beneath her touch. "Whatever she is... she knows us now. She’s part of us."

"She tasted us," Grace said, almost shyly.

The words lingered in the chamber, heavier than they should’ve been. Jude turned toward the flower again. It hadn’t faded - just calmed. Waiting. Expectant.

"What happens if we leave this place?" Lucy asked, pressing her body into his side. "Will she still feel us?"

Sophie stepped forward, her eyes sharper now. "We should find out."

They dressed slowly - not entirely out of necessity, but ritual. As they fastened wraps and brushed back hair, none of them spoke. There was an unspoken reverence in their movements. Jude ran his fingers through Emma’s hair, kissed Natalie’s shoulder, helped Zoey tie her wrap at the back.

When they emerged from the glowing chamber, the forest was different.

The colors were sharper. The leaves shimmered under the filtered sun. Birds sang songs none of them had ever heard before, melodies that mirrored the rhythm of their hearts. Even the air itself seemed thicker with life.

They walked together, silent and in tune, their feet finding rhythm against the mossy floor.

But as they passed through the clearing and toward the old river path, they heard it again.

The humming.

This time, it wasn’t the island’s hum.

It was a voice.

A single, woman’s voice, singing.

High. Clear. Impossible.

They froze as one.

The sound drifted from the east, near the place Rose had first emerged after her fall into the waterfall. It wasn’t a song they recognized, but they knew it. Just like they’d known the way to the tree, to each other.

Rose took Jude’s hand without a word and turned toward the sound.

The others followed.

Their bodies still glowed faintly from the ritual. Even clothed, there was an unmissable radiance to them now - a shimmer on their cheeks, a glitter in their eyes. The forest responded. Trees bowed. Light angled toward them. The river parted its mist gently as they approached.

The sound led them to a grove they hadn’t found before.

Smaller than the glade of the great tree, but older - stone pillars cracked with moss and time circled a shallow pool at the center. And in that pool stood a woman.

She was naked, tall, her skin gleaming like molten gold. Her eyes were closed, her arms spread to the sides like wings, and her song trembled through the very leaves.

She stopped singing the moment they entered.

Her eyes opened - and they were violet.

Not glowing.

Not human.

Not threatening.

Just... knowing.

Jude took a step forward, instinctively, protectively, but Rose held his hand.

"Wait," she whispered. "She’s not new. She’s old."

The woman smiled gently. Her voice, when it came, was like music. "You opened the flower."

Jude found his voice. "What... are you?"

"I am the first note."

Zoey exhaled sharply. "You’re... part of the island."