Timothy Giannato is a twenty-nine-year-old Italian multimillionaire who no longer believes in love, not since his girlfriend of more than a year of relationship, was unfaithful with a co-worker. Now Timothy prefers to live life on his own terms, no strings attached, no love, no suffering. 
Melody Redford is a twenty-two-year-old young woman, an animal and book lover, in her fifth semester of college studying veterinary medicine. Thanks to a night of drinking and partying, she became unexpectedly pregnant and her boyfriend Richard did not admit it and urged her to get rid of the problem. 
Melody’s family was no help either and forced her to make the most difficult decision any woman could make: to abort her child or to leave home and raise her child alone. 
Melody refused to have an abortion, so she was only three months pregnant when she moved in with her friend Lucy and got a job at a coffee shop to pay for doctor’s appointments and prenatal pills. 
That’s how she realized that it was going to be impossible for her to sustain a decent life for when her child was born. She was willing to do anything to avoid going back to her parents for help, let alone calling Richard. 
What neither of them imagined was that fate had an awfully bad joke for both of them, and it would show them that it is never too late to trust again.

The Italian's Proposal

/"You are banned from this family until you learn to make the right decisions. Like you’re an adult. Which you were already supposed to be!/" That had been all her father had said when he found out.

Her mother had been the emissary of all her father’s requests and interests for a long fortnight.

/"My girl don’t be stubborn. It is for your own good. That still doesn’t feel./" These were the phrases her mother would say to her since the morning began.

Her parents never referred to their child as a person, as an entity, as a baby. For them he was just a burden in her bright future.

/"You’ll regret it as soon as you see the travails a single mother goes through. Don’t think the world is one of those Sandra Bullock movies. The world is not pink! Life is not, Melody! You don’t survive without a man by your side to take care of you. If that scumbag who damaged your life doesn’t love you, much less can you survive alone./"

Chapter7