"We are a good team." She takes one of his hands and laces her fingers through his so she can use that hold on him to draw his arm tighter across her body. "You have yet to actually meet my boss yet. I guess it remains to be seen if I'm in need of avenging. He's... not really so bad, despite all the shouting we do at each other. It's like... If you took Maks and Pierre and put them together, I guess."

Hopefully that's neat shorthand for "tough on me and sometimes a pain in the ass, but a fatherly sort of figure and a good man, too".