It took the best part of an hour for Jack to get around to answering the text. He'd hoped Kate was going to forget that he'd asked that question, or at least join him in politely pretending to forget it.

stupid question was what he finally returned. Which was not terribly helpful as to the why, which had been a hard-to-explain mix of shock, Mitchell's mood, the fact Jack couldn't imagine Kate trusting another vampire that much, and a general dread that things were just going to keep getting worse. sorry.