The Italian's proposal

Chapter 32

Chapter Thirty-two

Melody

Melody woke up in a hospital bed, hours after finding herself in the parking lot of the building where she lived with Timothy.

She immediately felt his hand in hers. She blinked, still numb from the painkillers she imagined she received.

She only remembered feeling a very intense pain in her lower abdomen.

Instinctively, she put her hands on her abdomen.

“Hello princess,” she heard Timothy speak to her, moving closer and placing a kiss on her forehead. “You scared the hell out of me.”

“What happened? Is the baby okay?” fear began to take hold of her, and the tears immediately came down. “Please tell me my baby is okay,” she begged him.

“It’s okay,” he smiled slowly at her and she sighed in relief.

“Then why do you have that look on your face? If everything is fine, why are you looking at me like that?” she didn’t understand the reason for his stare.

She knew him long enough to know all the reactions he had, the way he behaved when he was scared or angry, and right now, something was bothering him, something was making him unsettled, and if everything was fine with her son, she couldn’t find any reason for him to feel and behave so strangely.

“You scared me...” he said to her again. “You passed out from the pain. In front of me. I almost didn’t manage to hold you up in time.”

“But you did,” she tried to reassure him, as she squeezed his hand and entwined his fingers with hers.

Her mouth felt numb and tasteless.

“I did.”

“So, what’s wrong?” she asked confused, her head was starting to hurt a little, and the light was bothering her.

“The girl’s fine,” she heard him say.

The girl, the baby? The girl was fine?

Did he say that?

Did he mean she was going to have a girl? They were going to be parents to a beautiful girl, a female, her traveling companion, a gift from heaven.

She didn’t have time to think about what she wished to have, any gender was going to be well received, and she was going to care for her as her very own life, if not more so.

“Are we having a girl?” she asked slowly.

“It’s a girl,” Timothy smiled, and she let out a happy cry.

“Oh, don’t cry!”

“It’s from happiness, I swear it’s from happiness,” she sighed contentedly, “I’m excited. We can officially start getting the room ready.”

Timothy was smiling, but the gesture, didn’t quite reach his eyes.

That worried her.

Even though she was quite numb from the painkillers, she couldn’t help but notice that something was wrong with him.

“My love, what’s wrong? It makes me sad to see you like this. You look like someone died.”

“I panicked as I was lifting you in my arms and Clark was bringing us to the hospital. I was dying of anguish. You were unresponsive,” Timothy let out a lone tear and looked at her with his eyes wider than usual. “I thought I was going to lose you! You wouldn’t move, you didn’t respond when I called you. I.... I didn’t know what to do...”

“You brought me to the hospital. You saved me. You did what you had to do and so much more.”

“Forgive me,” he whispered.

“For what? Because you take care of me? For holding me when I needed you the most?”

Slowly she began to remember the whole situation with Richard and how bad she felt when she heard what he said to her, about her child was just a means to get money.

He didn’t want her baby.

He never had and uselessly, she thought he might be interested that when the baby was born, he would want to be a part of her life.

But she was wrong.

Richard just wanted to take advantage of them.

“I got so scared I called your family.” Timothy then said.

She looked at him in confusion. Was her father there?

Had they gone to see her? She didn’t know how long she slept.

his head on her chest, not letting his full weight fall off her body. “I’ll die if I lose you. If you were ever taken from me, I don’t

suffering broke her heart. She didn’t want to see him suffer. “I’m here. We’re together. What did the doctors tell you? Why did I faint?”

you’re a little anemic and you need to eat better. Today’s impression, what happened with Richard... it was

repeated to him

not. But you will be. I’ll take care of you. Even if I don’t go to any of the

be paranoid,” she smiled at the intensity with

was always like that

with his heart.

contributed to that

blaming yourself,” she said interrupting him. “Don’t fall into that vicious circle. You want

hadn’t hit

have hit him myself,” she told him with impetus and assurance. “I would have gouged his eyes out myself. My child is not a trading toy. And let me tell you my darling...” he stood up a little and looked into her eyes, “you were right.”

he looked at

Our daughter’s. You, and only you, will be the father of my daughter and any others we have. We will find a way to keep Richard, with his ill will and need for

promise you,” he asserted.

and Allegra

his neck, his eyebrows crossed, a gesture he made when he didn’t

you? I think I should talk to them to let

he let out a regretful sigh and

Lydia was outside.

her eyes with

her, I’ll understand, I’ll tell her you’re not ready to see her,” Timothy reached out again and stroked her hair, arranging the bangs she had

hair felt all over his face

a daze. “Did

worry. You

“I’m fine and you already told me the baby is fine. It’s just

been alone, I don’t even want to

then gave way to uncertainty. “Did my mom say anything to you? Didn’t she

hand in his, “she got there before your father and Allegra. She was devastated,” he confessed, “it broke my soul to see her like that. She reminded me of you. You cry the same way. You cry with real pain,

she has them,” she said in a

Troy directly because she thought I was hiding information from her,” Timothy

know that her mother had taken care of her all her life, always being there when she needed

she got

was a

in truth, her mother was the one who insisted that

she was about to have a daughter with Timothy, to be happy, to continue

risk that joy being ruined by her mother,

I know what you have suffered, but I also think she has suffered enough because of the bad decisions she

I should see her? Do you think I

is your mother, and she will remain your mother until the day the world ends. Because even if she dies in a hundred years, she will still be your mother. That

she wanted to cry and break something, she knew he was right. Worse yet, it hurt at the thought of seeing

she knew he spoke for his own situation. His father was a constant worry,

logic, she agreed to see Lydia. On the one condition, that if things

already was too

told him she was only going to give her that chance. “You decide when to listen to her, when to see her, and most importantly, it’s yours and

her to come

to her lips, and she closed her

the door closed, and he walked

that must have been bigger than Lucy’s entire apartment. She still wasn’t digesting the fact that she was the future wife of someone with as

rambling, the bedroom door

stared at her from the doorway, not

door. I think we have a lot to talk,” she tried to sound confident and calm, but

voice sounded shaky and

automaton

Melody struggled to sit up, the numbing effect on her body was

other end of the room, looking at her with compunction and a little embarrassed, which Melody could

white vertical striped dress with wine red,

they didn’t start talking, they would end up reaching two thousand twenty-five waiting for

Melody said, taking

to do was to make her understand that she was willing to listen

you almost murdered someone because they wouldn’t

she said after

your

there so calmly? How could you agree to see me after the way I treated you? I don’t deserve your attention, or your words.... Not

her that she wasn’t the worst mother,

you forgive me,” Lydia slowly walked over to the bed where she counted herself and hugged the wallet to her chest. “I don’t deserve your forgiveness; I don’t

with a lump in her throat. One that was eager for

home quietly anymore, as if my daughter wasn’t between life and

was just anemia,” she explained to take the weight off

complicated thing about being human was approaching someone she

words did not flow.

remained

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