"You said you would sleep,” Erik said wearily.

”I know, I know,” Zoe replied, “I did sleep, I swear!... for a reasonable length of time,” she assured. .

Erik sighed: though she was older (not by too much, however, now that he thought about it), Zoe reminded him very much of his kids.

Finding Zoe at all hours in front of the computer did remind him of how he would wake up at night to go to the bathroom and find the light on in Maja’s room: sometimes she ...