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

/"You decided not to see me,/" although she had no strength or desire to hurt her, the truth was that her mother sought out that grudge.

/"I know and I will regret it for the rest of my days, my daughter,/" her voice was broken. Lydia had dark circles under her eyes almost to her chin, she was thin and had lost the glowing color that made her so attractive even as old as she was.

/"My daughter? Please, Mother. Don’t give me that sentimentality. When I begged you to believe me, you ignored me. You preferred an outsider to your own daughter./"

/"That’s just the problem Mel... I didn’t prefer an outsider. He was family too. Many years with your sister, he’s your nephew’s father. We’ve known him for a long time./"

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