Pope Leo's daughter, Kitty, is a witch who is always engaging herself in some form of adventure -- telling stories entwined within stories. All, of course, told from behind the scenes of the Vatican.
"I looked at him with glassy eyes, regretting deeply all the time I had invested in coming to know him.  Day after day – whenever I had the urge, that is – I’d ventured forth dreamily in the outskirts of the Vatican, privately, away from my father.  Sometimes he’d even set aside special time for me to visit him, even if he was busy with “pack business.”
"But still.  Nothing.  Nothing more than the cradle of my black, dismal silence.  Screams from a primal spirit.  My Emanuel.
I knew him all too well.  He was just so out of this world.  The passion that I felt..."
Will Kitty's relationship with her father cause her to detach from her beloved Emanuel? Or will she fight for what she believes?
Vatican Nights is created by Stephanie Anne, an eGlobal Creative Publishing signed author.

Vatican Nights

	And the part that hurt me the most was that he had never even given me a chance to explain myself.


	Instead, he had just written me off as “unsaved” or “in need of help.”


	He hadn’t listened to a word of my promiscuous, “ungodly” lifestyle because he was far too concerned about his own reputation.


	I could feel the tears coming on again, but I resisted the urge, as I wanted to be strong.


	I somehow couldn’t get Emanuel off my mind.  I felt I truly loved him, but I also knew that it was time for me to let him go.


	Sex had always been an escape for me, a habit that I turned to when in doubt of all other things.  But as long as I lived, I had never understood what I needed in order to be fulfilled.


	“God” was the classic answer that my father would always pin on me.  But I knew better than to trust in the word of “church fathers” who had long ago betrayed me.


	I was waiting for my father to approach me.


Chapter 8: Teal