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

/"Your brother-in-law set you up! I fell for it! I told you I’m sorry!/" he got up too and tried to approach her, but Melody moved several steps away. /"I realized you were just an innocent in all this. That’s why I’m here./"

/"You set me up with your sister-in-law!/" she shrieked under her breath. She walked towards him and without giving him time to stop the blow, she slapped him across the face. /"You don’t deserve my forgiveness! I’m all over the press because of you damn it, now everyone sees me as a freeloader./"

/"I didn’t do that,/" he defended himself as he put his hand on the side where she hit him. Truth be told, with such small hands, it was surprising how much pain she could cause. But he had it coming, that and more. /"I didn’t do the publication./"

/"I know it wasn’t you,/" she acknowledged, /"it was your ex. It was that Gia person. Don’t ask me how I know, but I know./"

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