Chapter 1500: Chapter 1.5k

One by one, the others joined. Sophie kissed his chest and then his lips. Layla slid against his side, panting into his neck. Grace and Stella lay tangled together nearby, moaning in sync, watching with hungry, reverent eyes. Zoey, ever fierce, ever beautiful, climbed on top of him next, taking Emma’s place with a growl and a groan, riding him hard, her nails dragging down his chest as she came in a cry that echoed to the sky.

The light above responded.

It flared.

And then the thread was inside him.

Not physical - something else. Something vast. It didn’t hurt. It expanded . Jude felt the minds of the women around him touch his, brush against his thoughts like lips against skin. He wasn’t just seeing them now. He was feeling them. Their love. Their arousal. Their joy. Their fears. Their longing. It all bled together in a fusion of raw, intimate connection.

He became them.

They became him.

In that moment, they weren’t thirteen bodies.

They were one .

And the island knew it.

The roots in the cave walls flowered.

The stones wept golden sap.

The air itself shivered.

And as they all came again - screaming, crying, shaking - they knew they had crossed into something new. Something eternal.

When the light receded, they lay tangled in silence, their bodies flushed, marked with golden filigree, like veins of power that ran just beneath the skin. The cave ceiling had closed again, but it didn’t feel like confinement. It felt like safety. Like they had been folded into the heart of the island.

Jude turned his head, Lucy curled against his side, her breath steady and warm.

"Did we... become part of it?" he whispered.

Rose opened her eyes from where she lay, her arm draped over Stella’s hip. "We always were," she said.

The others murmured in agreement, soft smiles blooming across their faces. Sophie, even now, brushed her fingers over the golden veins on her stomach, lips parted in wonder.

Jude didn’t understand it all.

But he didn’t need to.

He was no longer separate.

He was theirs.

And they were his.

The island had sung its desire.

And they had answered.

The warmth still lingered between them, not just from skin and sweat, but from something deeper - something spiritual, molten, shared. Jude could feel it in his bones. In the slow, synchronized rise and fall of twelve bodies breathing beside and atop his, each of them humming with aftershocks of what they had done - what they had *become*. It was no longer just sex. No longer just ritual. No longer even just love. It was union.

Lucy stirred first, her cheek still resting against his chest. She lifted her head, eyes half-lidded with a dreamy glaze. Her fingers traced the golden filigree that now pulsed faintly across his shoulder like a tattoo shaped by music.

"We’re glowing," she whispered, wonder in every syllable.

Jude raised his hand, turning it slowly. Fine lines of light shimmered beneath his skin, barely visible but unmistakably alive. "So are you."

Emma, nestled on his other side, stretched like a cat. "I feel like I’ve slept for a thousand years and still want more." She yawned and leaned in to kiss his collarbone. "Do you think we’re different now? Like... permanently?"

Rose sat up nearby, cross-legged and graceful, the wrap she’d worn having slipped from her shoulder, revealing the elegant curves of her waist and thigh. She nodded. "The island doesn’t give anything halfway. If we answered the song... we *are* the song now."

Layla rolled onto her stomach, propping herself up on her elbows, her body painted in streaks of moss and light. "I felt it. Not just the climax, not just the connection - something deeper. Like the roots reached *through* us."

Sophie, who had remained quiet, slowly pushed up from the mossy floor, brushing hair from her face. "I didn’t mean to give in," she admitted. "But I couldn’t resist it."

"You didn’t give in," Jude said. "You chose it. We all did."

Grace, lying beside Stella with their legs tangled, smiled softly. "It didn’t feel like surrender. It felt like waking up."

They stayed like that for a while, bodies overlapping, hands lazily stroking one another, kisses passed around like a secret shared. The golden veins had begun to fade into their skin, like memories that never truly disappeared, like promises carved under the flesh.

Eventually, Zoey stood. She stretched with a low, satisfied sound, her silhouette fierce against the cave’s luminous moss. "We can’t stay here forever."

"But we could," Stella said, smiling up at her.

Zoey smiled back but shook her head. "Something’s coming. I can feel it. That pulse from the sky... it wasn’t just celebration. It was a signal."

Rose nodded. "She knows we’re ready now."

Jude stood, helping Lucy up with him. She pressed her naked body against his for a moment, lips brushing his jaw, then stepped away to gather the bits of clothing still strewn across the cave.

As they dressed, the weight of what they’d done remained - not as guilt, but as power. Every glance carried history now. Every touch was deeper.

When they stepped out of the cave, the world outside was *changed*.

The sky was softer, not in color, but in tone - like light had become velvet. The air buzzed faintly with the same low frequency that had once haunted them, only now it felt welcoming. The forest no longer loomed. It invited.

And at the edge of the path, waiting like a gatekeeper, stood Scarlet.

Her hair was woven with silver leaves, her skin dusted in pale gold powder. She wore nothing but a wrap of vines across her hips, and her smile - wide, slow, sensuous - made Jude’s breath catch.

"I felt it," she said. "All of it. The island sang so loud, I couldn’t stay away."

Rose approached her first, arms open. Scarlet stepped into her, and they kissed - long, slow, with tongues and teeth and a sound like worship.

When they parted, Rose whispered against her lips, "You came just in time."

Scarlet turned to Jude, her gaze piercing and hungry. "I’ve been waiting to touch you."

Jude’s mouth went dry, but his body responded before he could speak. Lucy stepped behind him, wrapping her arms around his chest. "We want her," she breathed.

Scarlet came to him then, walking barefoot across the moss and root-strewn ground like she floated. She placed her hand against his chest, over his heart, and leaned in close. "Let me in, Jude."

He didn’t resist.

She kissed him, and it was fire. Not like Rose’s dark warmth or Lucy’s gentle waves - Scarlet was *heat*, wild and uncontained. Her tongue teased his, her hands already slipping beneath his shirt. She pulled him toward the edge of the grove where the sun streamed between the trees like a spotlight.

He felt Lucy press against his back, and then Layla’s fingers brushed down his side. The others formed a circle again, not in worship this time, but in hunger.

Scarlet pulled him down with her, gasping as their hips aligned, her legs wrapping around him. Jude thrust into her with a groan, his body still aching from before but unable to resist. Scarlet moaned aloud, her back arching, her nails scoring his shoulders.

Lucy knelt beside them, stroking Scarlet’s breast with one hand while kissing Jude’s neck. "We’re going to burn," she whispered. "And we *want* to."

Layla slid behind Scarlet, kissing the small of her back, her tongue tracing the golden spine that glowed now in the sunlight.

Jude moved harder, deeper, Scarlet’s moans rising in pitch, her fingers clawing the moss as her hips met his with primal rhythm.

They came together in a rush, the world spinning, the air catching fire.

When it was over, Scarlet lay breathless beneath him, smiling like a woman reborn.

"I belong now," she whispered.

"You always did," Rose said.

As the sun dipped lower, the group gathered again. This time not to sleep, not to sing - but to plan. The sky had spoken. The threads had bound them.

But something still waited beyond the next bend.

The island was no longer just a mystery.

It was home.

And home had opened its arms.

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