The Italian's proposal

Timothy

The woman was a mess, her hair was tied up in a bun that reached almost to her forehead, her eyes were a little puffy and Timothy was immediately concerned, even though she had left his apartment a little embarrassed, he didn’t think she was that affected by the fact that he had taken the audacity to take her home when she fainted.

He just acted on impulse after Troy had told him she just needed to rest and get something to eat.

He caught himself getting in the car and telling Clark to take them to his penthouse.

It was amazing how someone trying to help another person made them feel offended and, in that case, Timothy was incredibly surprised, no one had ever refused help from him, it always had a positive effect on people. Even without needing his money, when he showed up, they had thousands of bills to pay, familiars sick, starvation and other barbarities. Everyone willingly accepted his meddling, except Melody. She who, with her huge gray eyes, was looking at him at that moment wide open in amazement at his visit.

It wasn’t at all difficult for him to track her whereabouts, considering that Clark had taken her to the apartment that very afternoon, after she had left his house in a panic and almost trembling, after finishing lunch with her mother and resolving a matter of utmost delicacy and importance, he didn’t think twice about going to see her. He felt guilty about how the poor pregnant woman had taken off. Timothy was not normally a man who instilled fear, so he was almost in shock at having witnessed Melody’s reaction.

His desire to see if she was okay aside, there were other details that made him go to see her.

“Timothy,” the whisper of his name, coming from Melody’s delicate lips, made him feel perverted by the sensations it caused him.

The woman was expecting another man’s baby!

Timothy found himself tempted by a growing interest in the damsel in distress in front of him. When was the last time he had felt something like this for someone?

It wasn’t just a physical thing, it was a feeling, something that went beyond that and it terrified and overwhelmed him.

But this had changed when he met Melody that morning, she was different, in every possible way, with her gray eyes between confused and infuriated, he could see it all in her face and it captivated him.

Melody looked like a schoolgirl, yet seductive with her messy hair, pajamas that in a few months would no longer fit her due to her growing pregnancy and her bare, seductive feet with her toenails painted in a metallic blue.

Although, to his taste, the color was unappealing. She would look good in something more subdued; she didn’t need extravagant tints to stand out.

The thought made him almost run away, what was it about this woman that made him think such things?

“Hello?” she said again and he almost cursed as he realized he had been staring at her.

Melody placed her arms across her chest, but not before Timothy noticed the effect, he had on her.

“May I come in?”

“What do you want? You came to cash me in for this morning’s favor? I told you I don’t have a dime,” she had her arm draped over the door hinge and looked at him with narrowed eyes. “What did you come for Timothy?”

As he watched the young woman looking for the right way to get her to let him pass. He thought of all the differences this one had with his old girlfriend; Gia was not at all as plain and simple as Melody was and he hated himself for comparing them at that moment, but it was an action impossible to stop. He leaned a little towards her until he almost touched her arm on the door frame, Melody didn’t move, she watched him as if they were in a dream and didn’t believed that he was really in her front door.

“What are you doing?”

your scent,” he said, smiling faintly.

Off the swing and your

away by the simplicity of her conversation. She could make

even thought it was stupid what his parents were proposing, what they were forcing him to do. He was a thirty-year-old man! He was a grown man, one who took the company to its highest level, did he make mistakes? Of course, he did. Everyone makes

of a meeting with his managers, the crazy idea occurred to him, he focused his eyes on what was in front of them and it seemed completely illogical to consider it, but the truth was that Timothy did not maintain any kind of relationship with anyone, he had stopped hanging out with women since he broke up with Gia, he realized that the information about his bachelorhood had been leaked, perhaps by Gia herself, he no longer doubted that this woman was capable of anything and now all the women wanted to be with him only because his bank account, it was true that his account was quite fat, much more than any

you let me

she replied without thinking

tough one, he told himself as he leaned back and smiled again.

his bushy eyebrows. That attitude had

interested in letting my guard down. I let it down once and now I’m

he didn’t expect

d apologized in the car for offending him, he thought it was simply a spur of the moment thing, something to be sparking and blurt out the first thing that popped into her head, but Melody definitely had no filter whatsoever, she spoke her mind and at that moment, he realized the reality: the girl lacked perhaps to polish that part of

saying what you felt to anyone, no matter how upset you were, was a step toward that person having control of you without realizing it. To give

sorry it went so badly for you,” he suddenly felt confused.

already told him, he didn’t know her, he knew nothing about her and therefore couldn’t imagine the answers she was capable of giving, much less of the reaction she was going to have when he put his

cons for both of them, he liked to make lists in

those days, was more than important, it meant his life, his work, for what he had fought for so

was going to take responsibilities away from him, he would

have a son. One that will be mine alone and I won’t have to share his love,” she spoke to him eagerly, feeling every word, her puffy eyes sparkled with joy and he was fascinated by that. “Will

of the baby she was expecting had been, but he understood it

it,” he said again, looking around to see that there was already a woman well into her

quite a sight, him in his Armani suit, with his shoes polished, leaning

she agreed, making way for

propose you and

have preferred not to see you anymore, but we’re not for what I want, aren’t we?” she walked over to a faded couch and sat down, crossing her legs. She let her hair down and it fell across her chest, blocking his delightful view of her small,

lose the sleepiness he had observed when he arrived. He cursed himself for having woken her up, but he couldn’t wait any longer, it was past eight o’clock at night, and when he focused on something, it deserved to be accomplished as

exuded an air of vulnerability, as he looked straight into her gray eyes, they gave him a

took advantage of men with money, and unfortunately, he had plenty of it. To his misfortune Melody said anything else for a long time, she didn’t invite him

anyway, I’m sure your driver wouldn’t be mad about

coming up with wild ideas and scenarios, and instead of driving Timothy away, what she was doing was captivating him, fresh air to a heart

to ask you

way to end it fast, he laid his cards on the table without cover or warm cloths and hoped Melody would accept the move.

relaxation to astonishment, from astonishment to confusion and from confusion to...

Joy?

a deranged woman slapping her bare thighs as if Timothy had just made the world’s best joke.

of her, taking her hands between his; at his touch she stood still and watched him

want you to be my