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

Her mother turned away from her and poured the cup of hot chocolate, with a little cinnamon on top, just the way Melody liked to drink it.

/"You remembered to put cinnamon on it,/" she was being a wanton crybaby, from those soap operas.

/"Don’t be ridiculous. It’s been a week since you got the hell out of here. Not ten years,/" there were always ways to make her cry more.

She hid her face in her hands and burst into tears again. She felt like her head was going to explode and her chest couldn’t take any more pain.

Devina was right about something. She liked Timothy, she saw something different in him, a willingness to help a stranger without asking for anything in return, a genuine and sincere look. He condemned lies and hated to be betrayed.

/"Lydia! Lydia!/" the voice of Charles Redford flooded through the house, grabbing the attention of mother and daughter.

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