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

Timothy burst out laughing and she told herself she preferred it that way.

That smiling and uninhibited. Not all grumpy like he had come to be. Not with his desire to hurt her.

/"You’re quite something, Melody Redford./"

/"I told you not to call me by my full name./"

/"Are you going to tell me what happened with your parents? Why don’t they support you and get involved in your pregnancy?/" he suddenly became serious and waited for her answer. He was tense, she could tell by the way a thin vein was growing on his forehead.

She wondered how big that vein could get if he got really pissed off.

/"Melody?/" he grabbed her hand, and she felt his warmth. A shiver ran down her spine and her eyes dilated. /"I’m curious what you think when you stare at me like that./"

/"Oh yes I do. I assure you I do. There are things your face doesn’t tell me./"

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