“That’s great!” Jo said, amazed at how happy she was to hear all of this. “I saw him with Keira at Satan’s last night, and he clearly adores her. She was comfortable and happy with him too.”
“Yeah. She’s a gift, the best in the whole of my life.”
Jo hesitated, then brought the conversation back to what they’d started talking about earlier. “Did you – you adopted Keira, then?”
“Oh! Yes!” Zoe took a big sip of her drink. “We were talking about that. I forgot.” She sighed a bit. “Well… she’s my niece, really. My sister’s daughter. But when Hailey was – was killed by her ex, I took Keira.”
“Wait.” Jo set her drink down, tried hard to focus because this was damn important to understand properly. “Keira’s Mom – your sister – was killed by… Keira’s Dad?”
“Yeah. He stabbed Hailey to death whe
