"These aren't your problems, Charlie. They're Zee's." She took a deep breath so her delivery would be calm and collected. No use yelling or raising her voice or tone. "I don't trust you because of how badly you've hurt me. Ten years ago, I trusted you more than anyone else on the planet, y'know. Then you chose your job over me when I hadn't even asked you to make that choice, never wanted you to in the first place, and you showed me exactly how little I meant to you. You were the glue holding me together, and you walked away like it meant nothing. I can't tell you how crushed I was. I don't think there are words. And ever since then, all you've been doing is stringing me along, telling me 'maybe' and using me for nothing more than sex. You emotionally destroyed me, Charlie, more than Remus' death did. You chewed me up, spit me out, and you've done everything you can to hurt me as badly as possible since.
"I love the you that existed ten years ago, but talking to you now, I can't imagine that he's in there anymore. My fault for believing he could've still been part of you, I suppose." She shrugged. "Zee undid the damage you did. Most of it, anyhow. But if you want to know why I don't trust you with my daughter, it's because of how you treated me. I never did a damn thing to you except for love you, and you threw it back at me and spit in my face. I've been trying to fix it, to give you another chance to prove that somewhere underneath there, you're still a compassionate human being, but so far you've done nothing but prove me wrong every step of the way. I want to love you, and I want you in my life, Charlie, but you're making it very difficult.
"I'll work with you on this, Charlie, because I want Zee to know her father, and I want her to know your family. But I swear to god, if you ever hurt her like that, I will rip you apart. No one deserves to be treated the way you've treated me for the past ten years, and if you ever do that to my daughter, you'll spend the rest of your life regretting it, that much I promise you."
She stood and gathered her things. "I know you think I'm the bad guy here, that I'm the only one who's at fault, the only one who has any blame on them. That now that you're here, Zee's superhero has arrived, and she'll never be unhappy or want for anything ever again. I'm not perfect, and I won't pretend to be. I've made loads of mistakes, and I acknowledge them. I've learned from them, and I love Zee more than everything in the world combined. But before you start a relationship with my daughter, I want you to ask yourself why we went wrong, because if you don't own up to your mistakes as well, it'll happen all over again with Zee. I love you, and I was willing to do anything I could to make it work. I've never left you, and I've never had any desire to control you, only to help you stay safe. I've never intentionally hurt you or walked away from you, and I've given you almost everything you've ever asked for. But you, Charlie? You've done nothing but stab me in the back and through the heart so many times that I've lost count, and never once did you ever apologise for it, or apparently even realise you were doing it. That's what hurts the most, y'know - that you don't even realise how badly you've destroyed me. But I'm the idiot who stayed with the asshole, so I suppose that's my fault too, then, isn't it?"
She shifted the strap of her purse onto her shoulder. "Yet you wonder why I was afraid to tell you about Zee when I was certain you already knew and were avoiding responsibility. Think about it, Charlie. Eventually you'll get it."
With that she walked out of the room and out of the busy club, Disapparating as soon as she could.