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

That alone made him finally understand what she already told him, he didn’t know her, he knew nothing about her and therefore couldn’t imagine the answers she was capable of giving, much less of the reaction she was going to have when he put his proposal on the table.

Surely, she would gladly accept. He had considered the pros and cons for both of them, he liked to make lists in Excel, to manage by pros and cons in every important decision.

And the one he should take in those days, was more than important, it meant his life, his work, for what he had fought for so many years.

He would be left with nothing, his father was going to take responsibilities away from him, he would put someone in charge in each of the sub-companies they owned.

Chapter19