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

	Which led to an escalation on my end.  Most of the time, I was able to keep it to myself.  Hold it in, I helplessly ordered to myself in my whirlwind of thought.  


	I had always been spiritual.  Always.  I knew there was something more out there, but I just didn’t know what it was.


	And the penalty of that ‘sin,’ I supposed, of not knowing, was that I had to go through life treading on the edges of the unknown.  Yearning for it, yet never being able to reach it.


	So when Daddy beat on me with his callous words this time, I completely snapped.  I fought back.  Because I knew that I wasn’t about to take any of it, knew that I could no longer sit there waiting in silent submission.


	And I felt myself curling up under the weight of his strength in return.  I simply wasn’t strong enough to stay away.  Or to overpower him.


Chapter 51: Secret Love, Secret Light