How to set the AttractionCenter for a ParticleEmitterComponent in a System with real time updates

I am trying to achieve an effect such that the particles of a particle system are attracted to my hand entity. The hand entity is essentially an AnchorEntity that is tracking my right hand.

let particleEmitterEntities = context.entities(matching: particleEmitterQuery, updatingSystemWhen: .rendering)
        
for particleEmitterEntity in particleEmitterEntities {
            if var particleEmitter = particleEmitterEntity.components[ParticleEmitterComponent.self] {
                particleEmitter.mainEmitter.attractionCenter = rightHandEntity.position(relativeTo: nil)
// trying to get the world space position of the hand 
// I also tried relative to particleEmitterEntity 
                particleEmitterEntity.components[ParticleEmitterComponent.self] = particleEmitter
            } else {
                fatalError("Cannot find particle emitter")
            }
        }

The particle attraction center doesn't seem to update

Another issue I am noticing here that My particle system doesn't show the particle image a lot of times and just renders a placeholder square when I do this, when I comment this code out I get the right particle image. I believe this is due to the number of times this loop runs to update the position of the attraction center.

What is the right way to do an effect where the particles are attracted to my hand.