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 father watched the situation without giving his opinion. Melody didn’t want him to get sick. Even though he was relatively a young man. She knew that such strong impressions could be fatal to a heart that was past fifty.

/"Dad, you’d better sit down,/" she approached him, intending to care for him, but he wouldn’t let her.

/"What for? So, I won’t support Timothy? Do you think I believe Equilay?/" he asked angrily.

/"No daddy,/" she was finally sure he believed her. That he trusted her. Her mother, on the other hand, was a completely different story.

/"Allegra, Equilay. Please. Let’s get this cleared up at once. It must all be a very ugly misunderstanding,/" Lydia Redford stepped in and grabbed her eldest daughter, as if this would save her from the bad wolf. /"We all know Melody can manipulate very easily when she wants to.../"

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