“Emma, what I'm going to say I won't ask you to answer because I'm sure you wouldn't be able to bring yourself to admit I'm right. So I'LL just say it and you know in your heart if I'm right."

"Go ahead and get it over with."]

“At some point, I'm guessing after your husband's death you had a sexual thought about Eric."

"Bullshit! I..."

"I said you don't have to admit it. But I'm saying it to get you to understand why this is inevitable."

Emma felt her stomach tightened at that word. As crazy as this was it had happened before and Robin had witnessed it each time. If she thought something was going to happen she couldn't just discount it.

“Maybe it was a passing thought or a sudden surprising fantasy Like it was for me. Maybe you saw something you shouldn't have. Something that would make you see your son as a man and not a boy and not your son."

Emma looked down at the table and knew she may as well have just admitted it had happened. That she had watched Eric with Ashley and it had an effect on her she'd been ashamed of.

“Whatever it was the power of the pendent has augmented that desire in you and is inching you closer to what it, and you, want."

"I do not want my son." Emma insisted.

"Okay, maybe I had a weak moment where something I saw at a time when I was very frustrated caused me to have a thought best left unsaid, but it was one time."

Robin raised her eyebrows.

“So you saw something and never once thought of it after that time? I don't believe that, but said I wouldn't push you. The fact the pendent is affecting you tells me"

"I'm right."

"So you're telling me there's nothing I could do. That I couldn't just go home tell Eric to get in the car and hightail it out of here?"

"Something would happen that you wouldn't leave." Robin told her.

"I don't mean that in an ominous way, but you'd change your mind or decide to wait a little longer."

“Why doesn't Eric remember anything?"

“I'm sorry?"

"Seeing you've seen this play out before I won't pretend nothing's happened. There's been a couple of shall we say incidents. He has no memory of them, but I do."

“Because the pendant is bonded to you, not him. It, and you through it, are the instigator so to speak. I'm guessing Eric is a proper son, but when he comes into contact with the stone he's very receptive to his mother as a lover."

“But why? At this point I'm willing to admit it's having an effect on me, but how can it just throw that switch in Eric?"

“Have you been listening to me?" Robin asked as if the answer were obvious.

"Yes, but..."

"The pendant doesn't create the Lust from scratch. Both parties have to have had thoughts of each other. If the son has no desire at all and never has the stone will have no effect on him and at that point the mother either because it's pointless. The goal of the stone is not a forced relationship, but to push something being repressed because we're taught its wrong."

“My son has never thought of me like that."

“If you're experiencing everything I know you are than he has."

“No."Emma was adamant.

“Eric would never think of me Like that.”

“When he touches the stone does he say that or does he tell you things a lust filled young man would tell you?"