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

Melody looked at the elevator wanting to disappear, just as the other two did. She sighed and let the air out again and again, exhaling all the urge she had to get the hell out of the apartment, out of the building, as far as possible from Timothy and never come back.

But she went there for a reason and she was going to stick to it, because she couldn’t live with the knowledge that she would never tell him how she felt about him. She would clear everything up that night, once and for all. Even if it cost her all her love for the Italian, even if she had to accept losing him, because you cannot force someone who doesn’t love you, if someone doesn’t love you, you simply have to disappear from their sight, and go on with your life, continue living, even if your heart always belongs to that person.

She walked into the penthouse, as her brain flashed back to the conversation with her father earlier that morning.

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