The Italian's proposal

Chapter 20

Chapter Twenty

Timothy

Timothy was on his way to Melody’s parents’ house; it was the only place he hadn’t looked for. He had called her countless times on her cell phone, wasting time dialing, knowing she wasn’t going to answer.

She was tired of him and his attitude and he knew it.

“Sir,” it was Clark, he was so wrapped up in his thoughts that he hadn’t realized they were already in front of Melody’s parents’ house.

The detective had done the job right.

She was there, she hasn’t been out all afternoon, not even to the porch.

“Shall I wait for you or come back for you later?” he didn’t know what the answer to that question would be either.

“Wait for me,” how about Melody refused to see him, she had her reasons. He screwed up big time. And Equilay Thompson’s Bahamas account confirmed it. He has been stupid, blinded by Gia’s infidelity and betrayal, he judged Melody without listening to her.

Now she was gone.

An innocent in a world full of bullets in the air.

She was hit by one, and unfortunately, Timothy was the one who pulled the trigger and sentenced.

“No,” he regretted. “Go. I’ll call you when we’re done.” He wasn’t going to leave without her.

He always had been known for being a confident man, but at that moment, with the documents the detective handed him half an hour earlier, he didn’t even know how to walk safely and calmly.

Regret and guilt were two things he never felt before, at least not to this magnitude.

He called Hamlet, asking for Devina’s number, which his cousin didn’t like, as he knew they didn’t get along, but in the end, Timothy was forced to confess that he screwed up big time.

Big and deep.

“Did you find her yet?” was the first thing she said when Hamlet put her on the phone.

“No. But you were right.”

“I usually am,” he imagined her smiling complacently, she was tremendous, that woman.

“I don’t know what to do.”

Admitting it hadn’t cost him as much as he imagined.

The truth was, if he was responsible for hurting Melody, it was appropriate to be just as responsible for apologizing and begging for her forgiveness.

He did not see himself as a man who would kneel before anyone, but neither did he see himself as one who would mistreat and hurt.

The last one already did.

It cost him nothing to kneel if necessary.

“The first thing is to talk to her, go over to her and tell her that you know she wasn’t the one who stole the money,” she told him after a while with the line silent.

“You make it too easy; don’t you remember how she beat you up for thinking I sent you?” she didn’t want to imagine what it would do to him if he didn’t tread lightly.

“It’s not that I forgot, it’s that she acted out of how we conditioned her. I realize this now.”

“What the fuck do you mean?” Devina seemed to have all the time in the world, whereas he, needed to figure everything out now. He was a pragmatic man of action, not one to make a mess and walk away without sorting it out.

“You accused her of stealing from you, of planning something as ugly as a three-million-dollar embezzlement, I tried to help her by giving her the money,” she sighed and continued. “I influenced her to believe you were trying to blame her even more. Melody didn’t see it as help, she saw it as a ploy to prove her dignity and her sincerity. Not as an escape, which was what I was looking for.”

“You wanted her to leave me?” he didn’t understand why Devina had stepped in where no one called her.

innocent woman, I saw it in her eyes. She’s a kid, at least she thinks no one’s doing any harm. She only recently realizes that her brother-in-law, who she believed in for years, stole from you.” Looking from that way, he only managed to feel like Satan himself, like a deplorable being. He thought of the restaurant and how he gave her Equilay Thompson’s statement and how he smiled at her all smug and wild. “She hardly realizes what the world is like. Did you ever stop to think how hard it must be to be pregnant and exiled by your own parents? I didn’t have anyone

that about you, I’m sorry that...” he didn’t even know what to say

Hamlet and then went

he said

her you screwed up, tell her you’re sorry and hopefully, hopefully, you’ll get her to forgive you,” she said goodbye and

now, as he stood in front of

to hit him with a broom, so be

a part of him wanted to leave with him, take refuge in his penthouse and carry on as if nothing happened. But the part

evening,” he said when Melody’s mother opened the door for him. He recognized her, since the report given by the detective

woman’s face,

it’s nice to finally meet you,” she said and stepped aside, making way for him, which he was curious about.

banging with frying pans and

she asked after inviting him

the extreme, he tried to behave as affable as

were photographs of Melody and her sister as children, all the way up to their teenage years. He focused on Melody automatically, her face hadn’t changed a bit. She was smiling at the camera with all her teeth, even

as the son of influential people, both, in Italy and in Manhattan and most of the world. His last name opened doors for him, but it also made everyone

And he was.

now how petulant

infidelity, he lost his

Devina judged him so harshly. Because in her eyes, he was a cold and

himself appear

of everything,” he realized at once to whom Melody came out so talkative, for, although he was her daughter’s fiancé, in truth, Lydia Redford didn’t know him to be

but he found it unnecessary to let her mother paint her as a drama

good thing. It’s not a

wanted to tell him something else, but Melody’s father came out of one of the rooms at that

meet you Mr. Redford,” he

Melody said about him at his parents’ house, he hoped not so much that his father

love, that made him question why Melody left her parents’

second and released him as he looked at his wife. “Did you offer Timothy something to

she said blushing, though she had been more amused, spreading uncertainty

to sit down.

the least we can do is invite

they both behaved, it gave him to understand that Melody hadn’t rant

that made him feel

wasn’t looking to sow hatred in others at the thought of

could talk to Melody alone and be able to start from scratch

you know where I can get my...?” the question died on her lips at the sight of him. Her eyes went from

hair fell loose on either side of her face and down to her breasts. She was wearing white tights, which came down to her knees, with a bunny face on

heavy and it wasn’t just him who

you alone,” Charles looked at him and the threat was implied in his eyes, but he still said staring

he meant it from the

members care how rich you are, my daughter doesn’t deserve to be

them and put a hand on her father’s back. “Leave us alone for a

parents,

coming for dinner,” Melody didn’t look at her mother, but it didn’t take it for him to realize something was going on there. Melody looked

made of brick, Melody sat there and looked at him with her

herself, bank accounts of both and the proof that her brother-in-law kept the money in an account in the Bahamas. He felt her

quizzically and wrinkled her brow. Her big gray eyes were undaunted. She was strong. One of the strongest women he knew, taking care of a child alone, never minding that the father was absent, shouldn’t be easy. He didn’t know the root of her relationship with that guy,

“What?”

me in the eyes and believe me when I say I’m sorry. I’m sorry for judging you lightly and not listening to you when you

and

“You...”

you had nothing to do

believed...” she let out a sob and covered her mouth with

you anything, but I want you to know that I know I was a bastard, and I don’t deserve you to help me, or

turned

me. No press. Have you seen everything they say about me? That I’m a freeloader and a

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