[It's hard to listen to, and because it's Ivy she does it without shaking her head at all, with shoulders tense and tight.]

He's not perfect, and he hasn't lied to me - is it really so impossible that he could have suffered a similar fate as mine? He knows what it's like to be abandoned and betrayed - to-- [She does shake her head, now.]

I haven't pushed you away, have I? [She knows she's pushed others back, she knows she's kept some distance from Alex, put distance between herself and Charles, and she tells herself that's different, that they can be kind, but they won't understand why she won't be.]