It had been a long time since he’d felt this fantastic. Before he started dating Alexiana, for sure. And in the last few months, there had been little to be happy about. Ever since he’d found out Alexiana was pregnant, life had been decidedly unhappy for him. The cell door had slammed shut. No respectable Christensen man would abandon his child. And neither would he, but supporting the child meant he’d forever be attached to a woman he did not love—and should have never let himself get involved with. Now he’d found a real reason for being. And that was Mia. She was everything Alexiana, and any woman in his circle of friends and colleagues, was not. She was simple yet beautiful, a no fuss, tell-it-like-it-is woman. He was done with rich prima donnas. He got the job and the girl and there was just one piece of his life that needed to fall into place. The job had been step one in making that happen.
