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

Loving him like a possessed woman, and yet she preferred to walk away from him.

/"All my life I will regret not believing you, not listening to you,/" her older sister approached her again, this time, knelt in front of her and held her hands, intertwined with hers. /"I will never get tired of asking for your forgiveness Mel./"

/"You don’t have to keep doing it. I stopped feeling bad about those things a long time ago,/" her eyes were beginning to leak the tears she kept holding back by trying to give Allegra strength.

/"Oh Mel! Don’t cry honey. Don’t cry for me. I don’t deserve it. You are all that is right in this world./"

/"My life is a mess Alle,/" she finally blurted out. /"I appreciate you being here, that you came. But right now, I’m not the best person to raise your spirits./"

/"I’m sorry things didn’t work out with Timothy. He seemed like a good man, and more than anything, he loved you./"

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