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

It was the most luxurious place Melody ever entered.

She watched nervously as she felt Timothy’s presence behind her, tried not to fall in her heels and walk straight. She also felt the stares of the other customers there. Although Timothy told her that it was normal to be watched standing next to him, she was sure there was more to it than that.

The tables all had white tablecloths and a small vase in the center.

/"This is your table,/" the young woman said as Timothy all gentlemanly pulled back the chair for Melody to sit down. For a moment she felt the brush of his hands as she sat down, and her belly immediately contracted. She wanted him too badly and couldn’t hide it. /"Enjoy your lunch,/" the young woman said and instantly pulled back.

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