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>His comment only meant for her to feel more impoverished and minimized than she should. Melody was not the kind of woman to be intimidated for any reason. There was an economic difference between the two of them, but that didn’t mean that she wasn’t educated enough or that she didn’t know how to dress properly, maybe not in silk clothes, not with diamonds or pearls around her neck, but she could manage when she put her mind to it. His comment was somewhat out of line and this had really stung Melody’s pride. Such it seemed that he got the wrong impression about her, he saw her in frayed jeans, white faded shirt and now he saw her in almost see-through pajamas. </p>

Chapter22