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

To hear him call her that, to address her by such an affectionate and personal appellation, had almost given him a stomach ulcer.

/"You can’t tell me what to do rich boy,/" the man replied, as he clenched his jaw.

/"It’s my house, my space, my woman. I think I can tell you and do whatever I want to as long as you’re on my property. So, I’m suggesting you behave yourself, address her by her name and keep your damn distance and respect./"

/"What do you want Richard? How the hell did you find me?/"

/"What do you want?/" she asked again.

/"I want to be involved in my son’s life./"

/"My son,/" she corrected. /"He’s mine. The instant you told me to abort him because you didn’t care for him, that very instant, you lost the right to be his father./"

/"Tell that to a judge,/" the offended man growled, lifting his chin arrogantly.

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