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

/"No, I know what it is like, Melody,/" he interrupted her, walking toward her. He grabbed her shoulders, the warmth of his hands piercing her skin and reaching into her heart. She closed her eyes for a second and enjoyed feeling him close, because she missed him like she could never imagine. /"Don’t tell me I don’t understand you, don’t tell me I don’t know, because I thought you and I were communicating, I thought that even though our wedding was going to be a sham, I gave you, or at least I thought I did, I gave you the confidence to tell me if something was wrong, but you didn’t. You made me look stupid, and now I have too much on my plate for you to come in here and try to make it more complicated for me./"

Melody felt her world crumbling at her feet, the chance of a lifetime slipping through her fingers, her breath leaving her.

Realizing that Timothy didn’t love her, he didn’t love her, because she hurt and embarrassed him.

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