Voluptuous Xtra 1 -

Mara didn’t believe in ghosts. She believed in physics. The carafe’s previous owner had died of acute sensory overload—his brain drowning in the taste of water.

May you always want more than you can hold. Voluptuous Xtra 1

She touched the glass.

She was no longer in the lab. She was inside a memory: a Venetian glassblower, furious and grieving, shaping this vessel for a countess who had stolen his love. As the glass cooled, he had whispered a curse not of poison, but of yearning . Mara didn’t believe in ghosts