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.

hallway,” he moved a little closer to her and laid his head on her chest, not letting his full weight fall off her body.

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?”

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

fine,” she repeated to him

Even if I don’t go to any

paranoid,” she smiled at the intensity with

always like that with him.

with his heart.

you through difficult weeks, I’ve contributed to that difficulty myself, I haven’t had my eye on you properly and now look how delicate you

into that vicious circle. You want to carry all the weight on

I hadn’t

impetus and assurance. “I would have gouged his eyes out myself. My child is not a trading toy. And

at her

part of my daughter’s life. 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,”

tell my father and Allegra to come in.”

pulled away from her slightly and scratched the back of his neck, his eyebrows crossed, a gesture he made when

I think I

and your father that are here,” he let out a regretful sigh and continued, “your mother came too. She wants to

Lydia was outside.

of it flooded her eyes with tears and

not ready to see her,” Timothy reached out again and stroked her hair, arranging the bangs she had

hair felt all

she come?” she asked in a daze. “Did

You came here

like that love, look at me...” she asked grabbing his hand. “I’m

alone, I don’t even want

openly at him, but then gave way to uncertainty. “Did my mom say anything to you? Didn’t she want to come? Did

on the edge of the bed and lingered with her hand in his, “she got there before your father and Allegra. She was devastated,” he confessed, “it broke

said in a scathing tone, “at least

hours, waiting to come in and see you. She was the first to arrive, she asked Troy directly because she thought I was hiding information from her,” Timothy shook his head as if he didn’t believe what he said himself, “she was hysterical, and

little happy to know that her mother had taken care of her all her

when she

was a real

realized that in truth, her mother was

was about to have a daughter with Timothy, to

she wanted to risk that joy being ruined by her mother, and so

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

think I should see her? Do

to forgive. All I want you to know, your mother is your mother, and she will remain your mother until the day the world ends.

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

have a chance to have your parents in health and wellness, to love them without the fear of losing them in a few months,” she knew he spoke for his own situation. His father was a constant worry,

Lydia. On the one condition, that if things didn’t work

already was

chance. “You decide when to listen to her, when to see her,

her to come

and she closed her eyes to enjoy

door closed, and he walked

She still wasn’t digesting the fact that she was the future wife of someone with as

of ranting and rambling, the bedroom door opened

mother stared at her from the doorway, not quite finished

talk,” she tried to sound confident and calm, but she knew she

voice sounded shaky and

mother acted like an automaton and closed the

struggled to sit up, the numbing effect on her

compunction and a little embarrassed, which Melody could tell by the blush on her

felt sad to see how deteriorated her mother looked. She was wearing a white vertical striped dress with wine red, teacher’s shoes and her hair pulled back in a discreet

make the first move, if they didn’t start talking, they would end up reaching two

Melody said, taking charge of the

thing to do

told me that you almost murdered someone because they wouldn’t give you enough

said after a few

your

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

the

she counted herself and hugged the wallet to her chest. “I don’t deserve your forgiveness; I don’t deserve even your look. But it’s just that when Allegra called me and told me what happened

you for coming,” she told her with a lump in her throat. One that was eager for

were okay. I couldn’t stay at home quietly

fine. It was just anemia,” she explained to take the weight off the pain

most complicated thing about being human was approaching someone she hurt, seeking their forgiveness.

words did

guilt remained

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