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 impulsive response had caused Timothy’s parents to remain in silence all night. She couldn’t imagine.

/"You stay calm,/" Devina told her as she got into the limo and listened to what was torturing her. /"Carlota is not as difficult as she looks./"

/"How many times have you seen her?/" she asked as Clark got into the limo, once Chloe had gotten in.

She was grateful not to be alone, though, on such an important day. It pained her to have two virtual strangers by her side, and not her sister or her mother.

/"Twice. Once at my wedding and the other a few weeks later./"

/"And with that you imagine she’ s a good person? If you’d seen how she looked at me when I said it, the poor woman nearly knocked over the hot kettle of tea with him in it. If I’ d known Timothy didn’t tell her, I’d keep my mouth shut./"

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