"Ah, yeah," he responds, looking slightly uncomfortable with the question, but of course she has a right to ask. Kenzi did need a bodyguard, perhaps more than most. But he'd needed out, and she'd given him the perfect reason to bail. She'd made some pretty poor decisions with him after all.

"I. I had to quit," he says, honestly. "For a couple of reasons." One of which being he had become the head of the Hillingdon Clan, after all. "I'm sorry. She was. I mean, she had been good to me. But she led us knowingly into a nest of vampires and expected me to protect her from them. And I knew that if I stuck around business like that, I was going to get myself killed."