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.

to her and laid 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 know

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?”

Today’s impression,

repeated to him again.

go to any of the offices,

smiled at the intensity with which he

always like

felt everything with his

have been selfish. I’ve seen you through difficult weeks, I’ve contributed to that difficulty myself, I haven’t had my eye on you

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

hadn’t

not a trading toy.

looked at

a 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 money,

promise you,”

and Allegra to come

the back of his neck, his eyebrows crossed, a gesture he made when he didn’t know how to

think I should talk to them to let them know

out a regretful sigh and continued, “your mother came

Lydia was outside.

it flooded her eyes with tears

want to see 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 all

hair felt all over his face

come?” she asked in a daze. “Did my mother come? Did she worry

worry. You came

at me...” she asked grabbing his hand. “I’m fine and you already

you had been alone, I don’t even want to think what could have

you reacted quickly. You saved me,” she smiled openly at him, but then gave way to uncertainty. “Did my mom say anything to you? Didn’t she want to come? Did you really see

her 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

has them,” she said in

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 she

know that her mother had taken care of her all her

she

she was a real

more so when she realized that in truth, her mother was the one who insisted that

have a daughter with Timothy,

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

have suffered, but I also think she has suffered enough because of the

see her? Do you think

is your mother, and she will remain your mother until the day the world ends. Because even if

Worse yet, it hurt at the thought of seeing Lydia, she would remember

without the fear of losing them in a few months,” she knew he spoke for his own

see Lydia. On the one condition, that

was too

“You decide when to listen to her, when to see her, and most

to

a kiss to her lips, and she closed

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

of ranting and rambling, the bedroom door opened

from the doorway,

I think we have a lot to talk,” she tried to

voice sounded shaky

acted like an automaton and closed the door behind

struggled to sit up, the numbing effect on

the other end of the room, looking at her with compunction and a little

She was wearing a white vertical striped dress with wine red, teacher’s shoes and her hair pulled back in

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

said, taking charge of the

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

you almost murdered someone because they wouldn’t give you enough information about

said

for your concern,

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

to correct her that she wasn’t the worst mother,

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

her with a lump in her throat.

couldn’t stay without knowing you were okay. I couldn’t stay at home quietly

to take the weight off the

knew it must be difficult to talk to her, for the most complicated thing about being human

did not flow.

guilt remained

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