Chapter 1345

She returned to him as the flower began to glow white-hot.

She climbed onto him and held his face in both hands, her eyes locked on his.

"I love you," she said.

He thrust up into her, hard, deep.

"I love all of you," he gasped.

They came together.

And the valley erupted in light.

It wasn't fire.

It was creation.

A beam shot upward from the flower, spiraling into the sky. The stars rippled. The wind stilled. The island moaned from its roots.

The pool overflowed with light.

And when the light faded… the wives were glowing.

Their bellies shimmered, faint golden halos hovering just beneath the skin.

Jude lay in the center of the pool, surrounded by them.

His body trembling. His soul wide open.

And the flower whispered one final word into his heart.

" Become. "

The glow did not fade.