"You're not answering me." Emma pointed out.

"I want a yes or no answer and I want it now."

"Fine. Hell no." He blinked as he answered and her heart sank.

“You're lying."

“Bullshit. Mom, what's up with you?" His eyes narrowed.

“Do you want me to say yes? Is that why you're sprawled across me like some reject from a milf movie?"

“Boy's smooth, but he's lying, Emma. You know it.”

“Eric, you can tell me. I won't be mad."

"That's nice of you, but the answer's no. I'd never think of you like that." He swallowed hard.

"God, mom that's sick and the sickest part would be how could I do that to dad?"

His answer stunned her. Both his words and the emotion in his voice as he answered.

“He's getting upset and guilty because he knows he did."

“He's telling the truth." Emma whispered.

“Who are you talking to?"

"One way to find out; do it, Emma. I'm better than any truth serum or polygraph test."

You'll show me what you want me to see, not the truth. This time she kept the thought internal.

“Your first reaction was he's lying. Trust your gut like you do in court. Ask him while he's touching me. He'll tell you the truth, he has to."

You're goal is to bring us together. Of course you'll make him tell me he did.

"Mom?" Eric cut into her internal dialogue.

“You okay? Should I not have brought up dad?"

"See how sweet he is? He's worried he upset you!"

"I don't trust you."

"I can only work with what's there. You know its there in you. You know the memory that triggered it. He has one too or I couldn't push his desire for you.

"I'm okay. Just thinking about what I asked you."

"I swear mom, I never did. I thought that movie was hot, but because it was a mom, but not my mom."

“Repeat what I say, and watch his eyes, Emma."

To her surprise, she spoke the words the voice fed her.

"So that night I was passed out drunk and you stayed with me you didn't do something you shouldn't have?"

Eric's mouth dropped open and his eyes widened to the point it would have been comical if his reaction didn't give away the fact the voice was right.

"I...how," Eric put his face in his hands.