Chapter 1506

It fell on their bodies like warmth and promise, filling them from within. Emma gasped and sat up. Her belly glowed faintly beneath her navel, a small light pulsing in sync with her heartbeat.

"What is that?" Lucy whispered, staring.

Emma touched it, her eyes wide and shimmering. "I don't know. But it's alive."

Sophie gasped.

So did Grace.

Each of them - one by one - the same glow. The same pulse.

Not pain.

Not fear.

Something else.

Creation.

The grove shook again.

The trees began to hum once more.

Rose turned to Jude. "We've begun something new."

His heart thundered.

Because he finally understood what the island had always wanted.

Not worship.

Not sacrifice.

Legacy.

And it had chosen them to carry it forward.