“I was busy making sure Luna was all right. What should’ve happened is that you should’ve listened to me when I said you needed to quit trying to make him Luna’s apprentice.” Wait. He’d told Mr. C not to stick him with me? Rip kept right on going. “I told you there was something off about the kid. I told you she didn’t like him working with her.” He’d done that too? “I told you we should have fired him after his first fuckup, but you said ‘Let’s give him another chance. He’s young. Everyone makes mistakes,’ didn’t you?”