Melody
“You’re pretty sick if you think I’m going to stay with you in this place.” she didn’t touch the glass, she had always heard about alcohol hurting babies.
“Sick or not, you’re still going to marry me,” he said taking another sip of his wine. “Do you know what you want to eat?”
“I haven’t even seen the menu, and I’m not really hungry anymore,” and it was true, her appetite was gone. That lunch was turning out to be fatal.
“Don’t let your emotions cloud your judgment. You must feed yourself for the sake of your child.”
“Don’t tell me what’s best for my son,” she glared angrily at hi
MelodyThree days later Melody was trying her wedding dress on in Timothy’s apartment. He had urged her to live under his roof; that way, he said, he would make sure she wouldn’t run away, escaping to avoid paying for her debt.Telling him she had no money of her own proved to be impossible. Melody cried herself to sleep that night. She couldn’t believe that something like this was happening to her.Not because in a way it didn’t suit her, she was deluding herself if she thought her son wouldn’t be better cared for under the Giannatto’s mantle and protection, just the family name alone was enough.But at what price.It pained her because she thought that Timothy, deep in his
MelodyDevina was smiling and Melody couldn’t believe that, in her hands, was a check for that amount of money.“Take it,” she told her holding her hands out to her.“No...I...”“Don’t say no. No person should be forced into marriage,” her logic was impossible to dispute. But, still, she couldn’t accept that much from a stranger, no matter how much her heart screamed at her that she could trust her.“You’re right. But I don’t know you. Neither do you know me,” she handed the check back to her and stepped back, “I think we should save lunch for later. I’m exhausted.”&ldqu
Timothy“Why the hell did you do that?” Timothy burst out when Devina showed him the check.“Because you’re an idiot and you’re mistreating someone who’s not guilty of anything,” she sat at the dining room table with a cup of tea and glared at him angrily, “don’t come looking for trouble with me Timothy, I’m not the monster here.”“You don’t know anything about what happened between Melody and me,” he replied furiously. “You’re just nosy.”“In addition to being a freeloader, a hypocrite, now nosy? Wow, the definitions of me in your short vocabulary are expanding. You must feel good taking your anger out on me and not yourself.”
MelodyMelody lay down for a while, her head was pounding, and she couldn’t bear to watch her parents suffer anymore because of the news she had given them about Equilay, and she understood that perfectly. She was one of those who had not believed the truth, even when she went to her sister’s house, she kept trying to believe that it could not be true. But the undeniable fact was that people betrayed, mistreated, stole, and made sure that others did not believe them capable of atrocities. Sure, he had his reasons, which, in his inner self, he felt were weighty enough to steal three million, but from there to throw the blame for his actions on someone else, that was unforgivable, even more than stealing.It said much more about him to blame someone else for his decisions than it did to have made them.
TimothyTimothy was on his way to Melody’s parents’ house; it was the only place he hadn’t looked for. He had called her countless times on her cell phone, wasting time dialing, knowing she wasn’t going to answer.She was tired of him and his attitude and he knew it.“Sir,” it was Clark, he was so wrapped up in his thoughts that he hadn’t realized they were already in front of Melody’s parents’ house.The detective had done the job right.She was there, she hasn’t been out all afternoon, not even to the porch.“Shall I wait for you or come back for you later?” he didn’t know what the answe
Chapter Twenty-oneMelody“Here’s your tea,” Melody’s mother handed the tea to Timothy and he sat down in the living room next to her.Between her parents, she was going to keep up the charade the best she could. In their eyes, the wedding was a fact, her affair with Timothy was true. She would never confess that Equilay blamed her, there was no need to. That would bring into question the reason she was getting married, and she didn’t want that. Not when she still didn’t know what Timothy wanted from her.What if he no longer wished to marry her? What if he felt only regret toward
TimothyThey arrived at Timothy’s penthouse, she didn’t utter a word, and this worried him.Her gray eyes were no longer tearing up.He hated himself and considered himself one of the drops that filled Melody’s cup of feelings. He had made her leave, got her to her parents’ house and suffer.They rode up the elevator in silence, she continued to not look at him.He made a couple of calls to set her up with a tour of as many clothing and shoe stores as she wanted, looking to distract her.
Chapter Twenty-threeMelodyA month later, Melody was walking straight to the limousine, driven by Clark, who, seeing her in the wedding dress, smiled happily.“May I tell you something?” he said as he opened the door.Devina and her sister, Chloe, followed behind picking up the tulle of the dress and veil. She felt like she was in a fairy tale, even though the reality of her heart was another, totally different.She was madly in love with Timothy.