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

/"Where does Equilay work?/" she asked just to get out of doubt.

She told herself that maybe there were two hundred Equilay Thompsons in the world.

Maybe his brother-in-law wasn’t the one who had committed such a crime against Timothy.

/"And why do you want to know that Melody? I already told you he can refer you. I thought you were doing well at the coffee shop, the one where Lucy got you the job./"

/"Allegra!/" she shouted to bring her sister into focus. /"Tell me please. This is serious./"

/"You’re scaring me little sister. The company is a subdivision of Giannato Enterprise. It works with marketing. It’s a multi-million-dollar company.../"

Melody felt like she was going to throw up and cut the call. She went to the bathroom and threw up everything in her stomach.

That couldn’t be happening to her.

Chapter16