"Never," He shook his head, "I'd much prefer my string of one-nighters and flings to your misery and heartache." There was still a bit of a joking tone there, but it faded a bit with his next comment, "You give too much of yourself to someone and they wreck it." Not that he knew personally, but he'd seen it, especially with Bekah, too many times to want any part of it.
He slid his arm around her and leaned his head against the top of her head. "I don't know." he admitted. Kol had his own paranoia and suspcion, but no one could touch the level Nik took it all to. "I think maybe, much as it obviously hurt all of us, maybe he took Esther and Mikael's betrayal harder than the rest of us." That was the only theory he had on it, really.