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

	“Emanuel…?”  I cried out, agonized, barely able to allow the words to escape from my lips.  “Come back…”  Without a sound, I silently groaned.  Desiring for tears to cascade down my cheeks, but unable to find the strength to do so, let alone feel anything at all.  “I loved you with all my heart.”  


	And that’s when the tears, the thoughts, the racing compulsions, began to flow endlessly through my mind.  But I could not prevent myself from thinking, feeling, being anything at all.  Nor could I encourage myself to fully embrace it.


	“You were everything to me,” I choked on the very rancor of my words.  “But now… I fear you have become nothing.”


	And as I felt the torrent of tears swiftly passing from my mind, to my heart, and then expressed more fully, outwardly…


Chapter 43: Dagger No More