Author Note: I hope that you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving with your family and friends. This past weekend, I ended up having to get a new laptop because mine was having issues so I am not using the one that my mom had. I can not believe we only have 24 days until Christmas. This also marks the middle chapter of this story.

Chapter 3

Steve was still having an issue with learning about his daughter and his ex-wife keeping her. The next morning had came and Steve was surprised to find Marissa there.

"Where is our daughter?" Steve asked her.

"She is at daycare." She revealed to her ex husband.

"Okay so why are you here?" Steve asked her. He was still really mad about this.

"Because I wanted to talk to you about this. I know that I kept this from you. I know that you are upset about this but I did it to keep her safe and plus you left." She responded to him. "Steve, I always wanted to tell you but there was something in the way. I am so sorry that I kept this from you."

"I know but I need some time to think about it." Steve responded to her with a smile.

"Okay, I can give you that." She said as she walked out of the house.

A few days went by when Steve walked into headquarters. He had not told anyone in the team that he has a child and right now he was okay with that because he still needed time to think about it himself. He smiled when he saw Danny waiting for him.

"Hey Danno. What are you doing here?" Steve asked his friend.

"I was trying to find out what happen between you and Marissa the other day." Danny responded to him.

"Nothing happen. Marissa is okay." Steve responded to him as Marissa walked into the room with their daughter.

"Daddy!" Lexi yelled at Steve.

"Did she just call you daddy?" Danny asked his friend.

"Yeah. Marissa and I apparently had a daughter about seven months after we broke up. She never told me about my daughter." Steve responded to his friend.

"Oh wow. How are you taking it?" Danny asked his friend.

"I am handling it just fine." Steve responded to it as he walked out of the office and out to the girls.

"Daddy, I missed you." Lexi said to her father.

"I missed you too baby girl." Steve responded to her.

"Mommy, ask him." Lexi said to her mother with a smile.

"okay baby, we will." Marissa responded to her daughter then turned her attention to Steve. "So we were talking about going to see the tree lighting and wanted to see if you wanted to come with us."

"I would love too." Steve said to her with a smile. "Let's go."

Steve and Marissa walked out of the headquarters and started to load up in Marissa's car since she had the car seat. Marissa knew that she was going to have to talk to him. Steve wanted to make sure that Lexi was having fun.

"Daddy, do you still love mommy?" Lexi asked her father.

"I will always love your mommy." Steve responded to his daughter.

"Why are you and mommy not together?" Lexi asked her father.

"Because mommy and daddy had some issues that were not able to work through so we decided to call it quits." Steve responded to his daughter.

Marissa just stayed quieted while Steve was getting questioned by their daughter. She found it funny that this was going on.

"I know that you are laughing at this." Steve said to her as they got out of the car.

"I love how you are interacting with her." Marissa responded to him

"I know right. She is truly a sweet little girl. I just wished that I would have been there when she was a baby." Steve said to her.

"I know, me too. You might been able to help me with those middle of the night feeding and changing."She responded to him.

"I sometimes wonder what would have happen if we would have stayed married." He revealed to her.

"Me too. I think that life would have been happy with the arrival of our daughter." She responded to him. "I am truly sorry for keeping her away from you."

"I know that you are." Steve said to her.

A few weeks went by before Steve got to see Marissa and Lexi again. His work cases have picked up and now he was there for many hours. Marissa knew that her daughter was missing her father and so was she.

"Lexi, do you want to go see daddy?" She asked her daughter.

"Yeah." She said as she ran to get her shoes on. She knew that her daughter was excited to see her father because she missed him. She loaded her daughter up in the car and drove to headquarters. She got her out of the car right as Steve was walking out of the building.

"Hey. I am glad to see you guys." Steve said to the girls as he picked up his daughter. "I am sorry that I have not been able to see you guys. I missed you."

"We missed you too daddy. Even mommy did." She responded to him.

"Don't worry daddy missed mommy too." Steve said to her as he gave her a small kiss.

During the time that Steve was able to spend time with her, they managed to start dating again. They spent the rest of the night together with their daughter. It was almost Christmas time and they were starting to their shopping.

Author Note: I hope that you enjoy this new story. I can not believe that we only have one month until January 2018. It is super crazy at work and I have been trying to write and relax it. I hope that you follow me on twitter as Carson34ff where I update all the time.