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

<p>He entered the building again to accompany Melody with the checkup, it was the best thing he had to distract him. It had been a while, weeks since he had done anything but drink in the evenings, attend his daily duties at the family offices and kill himself at the gym, doing hours and hours of weights. </p>

<p>/"This hospital is practically owned by Mr. Giannato’s family, they donate a lot of money every year for the maintenance of the entire center,/" commented the woman who was in her late forties, with a brown bow tie and droopy eyes adorned with thick horn-rimmed glasses. /"What do I say a lot of money! I’d say a lot, millions I’m talking about girl, did you really not know who you were with?/" the woman asked Melody. </p>

Chapter9