Cole wasn't concerned about Max keeping his word. He was fae enough that he had to do it. So he promised free answers and would deliver. It was everything else about this that was setting Cole off in stages...like what he just said. "What do you mean they were inthe Hedge?!" He demanded. Macaque would definitely be able to pick up on the way Cole's pulse sped up with the sudden alrm.

He wasn't asking why, so much as he was expressing that this was not okay in his book. The Hedge was especially dangerous for mortals. So his family being there was...something he was struggling with.