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

	Above all, I needed to continually remind myself to take compassion, even on the wicked, or at least, more morbid creatures of the earth.  After all, God had created even them, and expected me to delight in, if not, embrace, any trickle or remnant of beauty that I could possibly find.  For I knew, deep down, whether I cared to admit it or not, that beauty could be found in all things, if only I had the courage to look.


	As I thoughtfully penned yet another story, for which I felt I didn’t have enough adequate words to express, I was preparing to close my notebook, and put off typing it until later on, when the spider gently scurried up beside me, his web there, now complete.


	Instead of letting out a scream of horror, as I usually did, I decided to face the very thing that I feared the most, and to confront, if not repress, it.


Chapter 26: Terrence's Endeavors