"That," Ava agrees, because it is a rather large chunk of it. She has plenty of experience in being exploited and betrayed, especially by those she foolishly trusted. "But also I'll only disappoint and hurt them." Like Bill. Who had put up with so much of what she had done, still was trying to help her... and for what? For her to keep endangering him by association.

Ava takes a small step back, guarded, except her mouth doesn't seem to get that memo. "I'm pretty awful. And not worth knowing." And it stings a bit, that it comes out as the truth. At least the way she perceives it so, reinforcing itself in her mind. "I don't know how to fix it."