You are one hell of a screamer. Close your windows next time." She paused, then laughed.

“Better yet, leave them open. You got us pretty worked up."

"Oh." Emma put her face in her hands.

"How embarrassing."

“Its fine, hon. I'm thrilled you got to experience the ultimate joy a mother can share with her son."

"Okay." Emma nodded.

“So what now?"

“Well if I were you, I'd be waking up looking for more."

“Seriously, Robin. What now? All those bad things happened to the other mothers and sons. What's going to happen to us?"

"Well, here's the thing." Robin took a moment to sip her tea.

“Eric has never remembered the other encounters with you because the stone had him forget. But once the act is consummated the stone allows that memory to stay."

“So he's going to remember and that's going to decide how this goes for us?"

"Not just him. You're still wearing the stone. It will keep you feeling good about what you did. So here's where it gets tricky. If you leave the pendant on, it will feed your desire as it has. For Eric it will work, but as before only if he's in contact with it."

"So what? We keep living under its sway?"

"Only if you want to. But the question is would you really want your son if he were always being influenced? At that point it's like getting someone drunk to have sex with them."

“But I can't take it off anyway." Emma pointed out.

“Oh, it will come off now," Robin explained.

“It brought the two of you together, at least sexually. The lust has been fulfilled. Lust can be manipulated because our base nature is to crave sex."

Robin leaned back in the chair and touched the diamond pendant around her neck.

“The next phase is love. Now that can't be manipulated. So the necklace will now come off because at some point you will want to see what you feel without it and how Eric responds."

"It wasn't just the son's that reacted badly in the past, but some of the mothers too."

"So if I take this off, I may be disgusted with myself?" Emma frowned.

"Possible, but I don't think so. Like I said before you don't have a husband to feel guilty over. There's less involved for you. Who knows, if Nathan hadn't caught them maybe Mary and her son would have stayed together."

“So I have to take this off and when I do I may regret what I did and so will my son?"

“Maybe.” Robin sighed.

“You may feel guilt over what your deceased husband would think. Or that you took advantage of your son. Or? You may look at Eric and feel nothing but love and desire for him and realize you can be happy together."

"And he could go either way too?"

"Yes." Robin put her hand over hers.

"I really think you'll be okay.

You know the only other person I shared this dream with was Kathy and she's very happy. I think you and Eric will be fine."