“Why with her Antonio, of course!“Then, for twelve more years, my ‘loving’ wife has monthly ‘visits’ with Antonio while I sit home, fat, d...mb and happy, secure in the knowledge that just as she is my one and only love, I am hers.”“But you are my first love, always number one in my heart,” she cried.“True, but not your one and only, was I? And tell me, if Antonio hadn’t died, you would still be seeing him wouldn’t you?”She couldn’t answer; she couldn’t even meet my eyes.“And that picture! That’s. Oh Amy, what happened? And how, how were you able to heal so fast?" Sam asked, as she looked at Amy's unblemished body, which was exposed because her robe had gapped open in her rush to see what Sam was yelling about. Then more memories poured into Sam's mind, memories of Amy sucking her blood."I ... my blood was what allowed you to heal so fast?" Sam asked.Amy cast her eyes down. "Yes, I'm sorry I bit you. Oh, I'm so sorry. I swore to myself that I would never do that. I..." Shhh Amy. Don't. I finally set my cards down and went over to them.“We got tired of hiding,” I said.“Matt...”“Don’t worry, they know everything. And it’s perfectly fine.”My parents glanced at each other, and then back at the family pictures that had been restored on the walls of the hall. They walked over to the table where Lara and the twins sat and waited there until I’d taken my seat again.“We owe you all an apology,” Melissa said. As she looked at each of us meaningfully, I suddenly realized that she was. "My Lord, I kneel before you. Ready too be punished for the crime that Icommitted."Odin, (for that was the great man before which Olaf kneeled) sat andpondered long. "It is true warrior that the striking of one of mymaidens is in itself a crime. Yet that fact that you wounded her was notentirely your fault. A Valkryr is invulnerable to the blow of a mortalman so long as she obeys me in all matters. Yet her heart did not obeyme. She longed for the life of a mortal woman and because of this.