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His animosity towards her might have even been before he received the book. She never seemed very warm towards him. Whenever we see him and her, she seems sort of cold, strict, and almost distant. Like I said, she does care, but it is unhealthy. I don’t think she knows how to properly love a child–her background is filled with abuse from her mother and being a bit spoiled by her father (to an extent). I think that combination might, as well as being out for revenge and having a temper, prevents her from truly opening up.
I think that scene where she tells Henry that she does love him is genuine–the threat of losing him, of how he hates her, and of how she hadn’t been able to save him, got to her. When Emma kissed Henry and woke him up, she sounded relieved, happy, shocked, and resentful. She had wanted to be the one to save him. And she knows that people are going to say horroble things about her now that they all remember, and she has never really had him–he always was with Emma.