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 know I love you, don’t you?/" she asked her sister looking up at her, her eyes practically the same shade of gray. Allegra wore her hair pulled back in a low ponytail tied at the neck.

/"You’re giving the baby up for adoption?/" her sister’s eyes widened. /"Oh darling!/" she swooped in and wrapped her arms around Melody. Allegra was a few inches taller than her, not even with her strappy heeled sneakers she could reach her. /"I knew you’d come to your senses! You’re not ready to have a child. Not yet./"

Melody pulled away from her as if she’d slapped her and clutched her belly, almost trying not to let her son hear her aunt.

/"I thought you had my back!/" she cried totally disappointed /"I thought you were the only one who understood me!/"

Chapter17