Chapter 2He appeared just before lunch, aspromised. Phil and I were in Phil’s office, going over trainingschedules. When Carl appeared in the doorway, Phil raised hiseyebrows. He didn’t really like Carl. He hadn’t ever really likedhim, but they’d joined forces to save me from the mess I’d madeonce long ago, and now they tolerated each other because you didn’tsurvive death together and hold onto something as petty as dislike.
“I’m here to take Adele to lunch,”he said to Phil like he had to give us permission. Phil looked at me.We were in the middle of a discussion. But the look on Carl’s facewas enough to get me to nod and turn to Phil.
“I have to go. We’ll talk about allthis later.”
Phil started to protest, but I walkedout of the office and followed Carl out of the Martial Arts Academya
