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

	I simply could not help myself.  Suddenly, I felt overcome with a wave of passion and boldness that far transcended my current way of being.  “You… if I may say so, are truly otherworldly.”  I desired to say so much more, but I found myself unable to breathe, quite suddenly, at that moment.


	The gypsy, much to my surprise, was not dismayed at all.  Rather, she silently laughed to herself, and said, “Dear girl, you must learn to control those passions, for when misdirected, or wrongly expressed, they can become quite dangerous.”


	Part of me wanted nothing more than to shrivel up in a ball, seven shades of crimson, but another portion of me, the more conscious part, took her words quite as a compliment.


	“Thank you kindly,” I muttered, smiling graciously, affectionately back at her.


Chapter 16: The Gypsy