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.

not letting his full weight fall

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

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

she repeated

of you. Even if I don’t go to any of the offices, I’ll see that you’re fed and

the intensity with

always like

with his heart. And

selfish. I’ve seen you through difficult weeks, I’ve contributed to that difficulty myself,

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

I hadn’t

would 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

he looked at her confused.

You, and only you, will be the father of my daughter and any

you,” he

father and Allegra to come in.”

and scratched the back of his neck, his eyebrows crossed, a gesture

think I should talk to them

that, it’s not only Allegra and your father that are here,” he let out a regretful sigh and continued, “your mother came too. She wants to see you and

Lydia was outside.

thought of it flooded her eyes with tears and an ache settled

I’ll understand, I’ll tell her you’re not ready to see her,” Timothy reached out again and

all over his

“Did my

You came

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

he corrected. “If you had been alone, I

me,” she smiled openly at him, but then gave way to uncertainty. “Did my mom say

sad,” he sat 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

she said in a scathing tone,

her worried about you. She’s been here for hours, waiting to come in and see you. She was the first to arrive, she asked Troy directly because she thought

had taken care of

she got

she was a

her mother

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

to risk that joy being ruined by her mother, and

I also

I should see her? Do you think I should forgive

want you to know, your mother 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

she knew he was right. Worse yet, it hurt at the thought of seeing Lydia, she would remember how Lydia turned her

love them without the fear of losing them in a few months,” she knew he spoke for his own situation. His father was a

the one condition, that if things didn’t work

already was

your decision,” he replied, when she told him she was only going to give her that chance. “You decide when to listen to her,

her to come

and she closed her eyes to enjoy his

later the door closed, and he walked

around the hospital room, she was in a place that must have been bigger than Lucy’s entire apartment. She still wasn’t digesting the fact that she was the

rambling, the bedroom door opened again and through it

stared at her from the doorway, not quite finished

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

sounded shaky and

automaton and closed the door behind

neither of them said a word. Melody struggled to sit up, the numbing effect on her body was lessening and little by little, she felt her sanity and strength returning to her

her with compunction and

deteriorated her mother looked. She was wearing a white vertical striped dress

had to make the first move, if they didn’t start talking, they would end

mom,” Melody said, taking charge of

her mother to start talking to her, the best thing to do was to make her understand that she was willing

murdered someone because they wouldn’t give you

said after a

your

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

wasn’t the worst mother, Lydia

bed where 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

for coming,” she told her with a lump in her throat.

stay at home

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

to talk to her, for the most complicated thing about being human was approaching someone she hurt,

did not

guilt remained

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