Chapter 1730
The roots of the tree stretched outward with each breath they took, spiraling through the soft, silver-lit soil like fingers sinking into flesh. The tree grew impossibly fast - limbs curling into canopies, bark glimmering like molten gold cooled into a gentle shell. Its leaves shimmered as if they were made of morning dew and stardust. And Jude stood at the heart of it all, hands outstretched, bathed in its light, his lovers forming a circle around him.
Lucy moved first, stepping barefoot onto the living roots. Her breath caught in her throat, eyes wide with awe as the tree responded, vines curling gently around her ankles, pulsing with the same slow rhythm as her heartbeat. She reached back for Jude, her fingers warm, trembling slightly. "It's waiting for us."
"Not just waiting," Grace murmured. "It's calling. "
Jude felt it too - not words, but sensations. Heat. Pleasure. Memory. Possibility. The tree was not merely a symbol. It was a living conduit. A gate. A womb. A lover.
Rose stepped to his side, her body flush against his, lips brushing his shoulder. "We gave the island our love. Now it gives it back to us."
Sophie, quiet and intense, circled the tree with slow reverence. "It wants to be filled. To be completed."
Emma raised a brow. "By us?"
"Through us," Zoey corrected, her smile sharp with sensuality.
The silver sky above them shimmered, pulsing with rhythm, and the roots beneath their feet began to glow, forming spiral patterns around the tree's base. The air thickened, saturated with something sweet and intoxicating. Their skin tingled in the golden mist, breath becoming heavier, limbs lazier, more aware of the heat pooling between thighs and under ribs.
Natalie let out a soft gasp, her hand slipping down to her own belly. "It's like we're inside something... breathing."
"It's not just the island anymore," Stella whispered. "We're inside it. "
A vine uncurled from the tree and touched Jude's thigh.
He shivered.
It didn't hurt. It caressed. Curious. Inviting.
Susan stepped forward, eyes wide but unafraid. She reached toward another vine, and it curled around her fingers like a lover's touch. "It wants us to begin."
They didn't need instructions.
They simply moved.
Jude kissed Lucy first, slowly, deeply, his fingers threading through her glowing hair. The others surrounded them, bodies brushing, lips grazing skin, hands tracing curves. The vines responded - wrapping around legs, wrists, waists - never binding, only guiding, lifting, offering.
Lucy lay back against the warm roots, arms open, her thighs parting in invitation. Jude followed, his body already thick with need, pulsing in tune with the tree. Their joining was slow at first, reverent. Her breath hitched. His moan was swallowed by her mouth. The vines coiled around them both, pulsing with light, feeding on their heat.
Rose knelt beside them, her hands on Lucy's breasts, mouth at Jude's throat, breath hot. "Don't stop. It's watching. It wants more."
Sophie climbed atop a low branch, her legs parted, fingers working between her own thighs as she watched, her body glowing like firelight on wet skin.
Zoey pressed against Jude from behind, her lips at his ear. "Let her take you deeper. Don't hold back."
He didn't.
He thrust harder, deeper, Lucy crying out beneath him, the sound echoing through the branches. Light exploded around them, vines pulsing in waves, and the whole tree shuddered like it had climaxed with them.
But it wasn't done.
None of them were.
Zoey pulled him away from Lucy and onto her, her legs wrapping around his waist with primal need. He sank into her with a groan, her head thrown back, golden hair a curtain of fire. Grace knelt beside Lucy now, kissing her, fingers exploring her still-shuddering body. Stella and Natalie tangled together near the roots, moaning, vines wrapping them gently together.
The air became music - low, rhythmic pulses vibrating in the soil and in their bones. The tree moved with them, its limbs flexing, petals blooming all around them in waves of golden climax.
Jude was passed from body to body - Zoey, Sophie, Grace, Stella, Scarlet, Natalie, Emma, Susan. Each one welcomed him. Each one opened, wrapped, arched, took him in with cries of pleasure and gasps of surrender. Lucy guided his hands. Rose kissed his spine. Sophie whispered words in a language he didn't know - but somehow understood.
It was no longer about finishing.
It was about becoming.
The longer they moved, the more the tree transformed. Its bark softened, turning supple and warm. The branches bent low, offering platforms, beds of moss and petal. Every touch, every kiss, every deep stroke of Jude's hips into the women he loved sent more pulses into the roots, more golden light into the sky.
And then - the heart returned.
The floating orb descended once more, hovering above their sweat-slicked bodies, pulsing with blinding gold.
Jude, wrapped in Rose's arms, kissed deeply by Emma, looked up.
The orb exploded into light.
And the light entered him.
He arched, screaming - not in pain, but in divine release. The light filled his lungs, his chest, his sex, his soul. It spread from him into the others, each one crying out, trembling, coming again and again in waves too powerful to resist.
They glowed.
They burned.
Until all was white.
And then - silence.
Cool.
Gentle.
Jude blinked, chest rising, breath slow. He was lying in the center of the tree's roots again - but they had changed. Now soft as flesh, warm as skin. The air was still golden, but quieter, more peaceful. Around him, the others slept in satisfied stillness.
And beneath his hand - the tree's core pulsed, slow and deep.
He sat up slowly.
Lucy stirred beside him, smiling in her sleep.
Emma shifted, curling closer.
Zoey lay on her back, hair fanned out like a goddess at rest.
And above them - stars.
But not just stars.
New ones.
A new sky.
Jude rose, barefoot, naked, changed.
And he knew .
They had become more than lovers.
More than dreamers.
They were the island now.
And it breathed through them.
Forever.