The Italian's proposal

Chapter Thirty-one

Timothy

Timothy walked next to her, feeling her warmth, her comforting presence, even when his heart was beating fast and his hands were like icebergs, for the first time, he would see the man who was with Melody before him, he was not a man to feel jealous of anyone, he has never been and he intended never to be, but that did not prevent him from feeling a little jealous of someone he have never seen in his life.

When he began to investigate whether Melody stole the three-million-dollars from his company, it never even crossed his mind to investigate the man who got her pregnant, because, after all, she didn’t touch that button and he wasn’t interested in knowing more about her, not at the moment when he believed Melody was a shrew, a scoundrel, and a freeloader.

Now all that remained was only the memory of the sin he committed, because Melody’s big heart was enough to forgive him and help him forgive himself. He would never get tired of telling her how much he loved her, even though all his life he had tried not to be so expressive, being with her it was easy, it was simple for him to tell her affectionate words, to tell her how much he wanted her, how much he loved her, and he wanted to continue spending the rest of his life with her.

They took the elevator, she was still silent, though calmly walking beside him, he knew that, knowing her, she must be a nervous wreck inside, she was going to see Richard for the first time, after months as she told him, and this surely terrified her and made her stir the past slightly.

He didn’t know on what terms that relationship ended, although Melody said that it was a one-time thing, he couldn’t get over the fact that, maybe, before having sex, she was in love with that man, and no matter how hard Melody tried to reassure him, until he saw what kind of man was the father of the child Melody was carrying, and which he would gladly and happily raise as his own, he wouldn’t stop thinking about that man, with his hands on his wife’s body.

“Ready?” she asked him as the elevator beeped to open the doors leading to the parking garage of the building.

“I don’t think I’m ready, but I don’t have a choice either,” he replied.

“You always have a choice, even if you think there isn’t one, you will always have more than one choice, even if you think you only have one. I don’t want to torture you, let alone hurt our relationship, not after all we have tried and suffered to get this far, if you want to go up to the penthouse, I can work it all out. I want to ask him what he wants, and I’ll tell you myself, there’s no need to make a fuss about all this.”

She was right so he took a deep breath and let the air out, the man was a disturbance, he was trash and useless, well he was one hundred percent sure that, when Melody realized that she was pregnant by him, surely, she approached looking for his help and consolation as a young mother-to-be she, and he turned his back on her. That’s why he felt that rage rising from his feet to the blond strand of his hair, because he had extraordinarily strong and peculiar desires, desires to hit him, to hit the man who hurt Melody and left her alone.

“I’m all right. Whatever he wants with you, he’ll have it with me too. Besides, I’m not going to leave you alone with the man who got you pregnant and didn’t care if you ate or if you slept, or even if his child was okay.”

“It’s not that he didn’t care, it’s that he didn’t even care that I was pregnant, he just told me to get rid of him. To him, this baby I’m carrying here,” she placed her hands on her belly, “doesn’t exist, that’s why I don’t understand why he came.”

She hugged him for an instant wrapping her little arms around him and Timothy felt in heaven.

“Have I told you how much I love it when you hold me and give me all this affection?” he asked her as he hugged her back and the elevator doors finished opening.

“You’ve said it many times, but it never hurts to hear it again. I love when those words come out of your mouth.”

“Come on now. I need to have you all to myself again.”

They approached the gate leading to the parking lot, where Clark stood next to the man, he immediately knew was Richard.

Richard without a last name, as he didn’t know him yet.

“Good morning Mr. Giannato and Miss Melody, forgive me for keeping this gentleman here but...”

“Held against my will, as if I were some kind of criminal, can’t you see that’s my son’s mother in there?”

Melody immediately tensed up and her whole body spoke, not needing to use the words in her mouth.

“She’s my future wife anyway and this is the building where I live, the house where I live with my future wife. So, these are my rules, and I don’t care who you are or what relationship you’ve had with Melody, if you come into my space, you behave and do whatever I feel like and it seems best and safest.”

The man was a little shorter than Timothy, like his father and cousin, they were of tall, slender stock, characterized as imposing men, who made their presence known without needing to open their mouths.

The guy watched him with shrunken eyes and an angry look, he shoved his hands in the pockets of his worn jeans, his shoes were slightly dusty, and he was wearing a sweater, which had certainly seen better days.

Won’t you say something?” Richard stared at Melody with his

sticking to the rules,” he listened as Melody spoke relentlessly, but still gave Clark a sincere smile for doing his job.

if you need me,” he said this, as he gave one last glance at

understood that everything was in order

asked without

you. To know how you were doing,”

wasn’t buying it, though.

Just fine without your help actually,” the assurance with which Melody said it amazed him and filled him with pride. “If that’s all you came for, I’m sorry you spent your time and money

was a straight shooter and always truthful

or

to avoid hurting the other.

told it like it

left and no....”

interrupted him, as she folded her arms. Timothy stayed

two of them needed to work things out, only if Melody needed him to, he was going to

for any reason, to feel that he was coercing

Because if you wanted to, if you cared, you wouldn’t have treated me the way you did when I told you I was pregnant. You

“Honey...”

you want to leave with all your teeth in your mouth,” he couldn’t help

hear him call her that, to address her by such an affectionate and personal appellation, had

can’t tell me what to do rich boy,”

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

you want Richard? How the hell did

“I spoke to Lucy.”

do you want?” she asked again.

be involved in my

him because you didn’t care for him,

the offended man

yet. I have for sure that from the moment he’s born you won’t see him, because you’re not fit

without looking at Melody. Instead, raising his eyes at him, as if challenging

Then he understood.

asked gesturing for Clark, to

only looking for an advantage over Melody, over the bond that weakly held them together and would keep them that way for the rest of their lives, even the three of them because he had no intention of walking away or splitting up with Melody, because in

your money?” the man pretended

the man wore a beard more than a week old, his nails bitten and ragged and his eyes

let’s set the record straight, you didn’t come here to act out your right as a father. You didn’t come here to tell Melody that you are interested in seeing your son, you came here because you ran out of money and you found out that she is going to marry me, and you decided

spoke in a hurry and took two steps towards Richard who in turn took two steps

nonsense, that’s stupid.... I didn’t come here

and stop the fucking charade! You think I don’t know you? You think I’m still stupid enough to believe whatever you tell me?” this time it was Melody

placed a hand on Timothy’s shoulder to stop the urge to hit him.

knew him even better than he knew himself. She noticed there, as she felt his warmth, that

the threat that lay dormant in front of him. “Just because you’re marrying a guy with money doesn’t mean you have money. You’ll always be the same Melody who was short on attention and didn’t

that was wrong or offended Melody, he would come in