A millionaire tests his girlfriend by inviting her home to a very old dilapidated house and proposing she marry him.<\/p>\n
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Andrew Hardy had spent his childhood in an unhappy home. His mother had married his father for his money, and once she\u2019d given birth to Andrew, she\u2019d considered her duty done.<\/p>\n
Andrew had seen his father\u2019s sadness and knew that he truly loved a woman who cared nothing for him and lived only for luxury and status. Andrew was determined that he\u2019d never marry a gold digger. His life was going to be very different.<\/p>\n
Andrew had gone to university in England and then gone on to do his post-graduate degree in Australia, so when he came home, he had few ties to the community, except his father and his grandmother.<\/p>\n
As for his mother, she had long since divorced his father and remarried, and had never contacted her son. So Andrew was a new guy in town, and nobody knew that he was the son of Danton Hardy, the only heir to Hardy Industries, and that\u2019s how he liked it.<\/p>\n
\u201cDad,\u201d Andrew said to his father. \u201cI was thinking\u2026How about I start working at the company?\u201d<\/p>\n
Danton was delighted. \u201cI\u2019d love that!\u201d he cried. \u201cYou can start as vice-president of marketing\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n
But Andrew was shaking his head. \u201cNo!\u201d he said. \u201cI want to start at the bottom, work my way up, and I don\u2019t want people to know I\u2019m the boss\u2019s son. Hire me as an intern in the marketing department.\u201d<\/p>\n
Danton frowned. \u201cAre you sure? The pay isn\u2019t great!\u201d<\/p>\n
Andrew grinned. \u201cThat\u2019s OK! I can still live at home, can\u2019t I?\u201d Danton laughed and said, of course, he could.<\/p>\n
Andrew went out and got himself a modest second-hand car and a wardrobe to match an intern\u2019s salary. He started working at his dad\u2019s company and he loved it. He made friends with many of his co-workers, and especially with his fellow intern, a sweet girl named Cynthia, who quickly became his best friend.<\/p>\n
Then one day, Andrew was out jogging and he ran past a Starbucks. There was a girl coming out and she didn\u2019t see Andrew and ran right into him. The inevitable happened and her coffee flew through the air and splashed Andrew.<\/p>\n
\u201cOh my God,\u201d the girl gasped. \u201cI\u2019m so sorry!\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s OK,\u201d Andrew said, and then his mouth fell open. She was the most beautiful girl he\u2019d ever seen.<\/p>\n
The girl looked worried. \u201cAre you OK?\u201d she asked.<\/p>\n
And Andrew kept staring and said, \u201cYou\u2019re the most beautiful girl I\u2019ve ever seen, please have coffee with me?\u201d The girl, whose name was Linda, started laughing. She had coffee with Andrew and soon they started dating.<\/p>\n
Andrew was head over heels in love with Linda and he was sure she was the One. He told his grandmother as much, but his grandmother frowned. \u201cSweetheart, a pretty face doesn\u2019t guarantee a good heart,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cGran,\u201d Andrew protested. \u201cLinda thinks I\u2019m an intern at Hardy Industries, she doesn\u2019t know who I am!\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAndrew,\u201d the grandmother said quietly. \u201cYou don\u2019t know who she is either!\u201d<\/p>\n
Andrew thought about it a lot and even talked to Cynthia about Linda. \u201cI went to high school with Linda,\u201d Cynthia exclaimed. \u201cShe\u2019s beautiful\u2026and ambitious.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSo am I,\u201d said Andrew crossly, and Cynthia didn\u2019t say another word. She could see that Andrew was infatuated with Linda, but she knew her old classmate very well. Linda would never settle for a poor intern!<\/p>\n
The most precious quality in a friend is kindness and honesty.
\nAndrew made a plan. He went shopping for a stunning five-carat diamond and rented a shabby old house in a poor but respected neighborhood, then he called Linda and told her he had a surprise for her.<\/p>\n
Andrew drove Linda to the old house and led her inside. He\u2019d lit a hundred candles in the dining room and scattered rose petals on the floor, the perfect setting for a romantic proposal.<\/p>\n
But even as Andrew was kneeling at her feet, Linda was looking around in disgust. The candles and the rose petals couldn\u2019t disguise the shabbiness of the furniture\u2026<\/p>\n
Then Andrew took out his beautiful ring and presented it to Linda. \u201cLinda,\u201d he said, \u201cI love you, I want to spend the rest of my life with you. Will you be my wife?\u201d<\/p>\n
Linda was staring at Andrew in disbelief. \u201cMarry you? Are you serious?\u201d<\/p>\n
Andrew was glowing with love. \u201cDead serious,\u201d he smiled.<\/p>\n
Linda laughed. \u201cYou think this\u2026\u201d she gestured with her hand, \u201cthis rat hole is where a girl like me belongs? Be serious! I thought you realized. We were having fun, Andrew, that\u2019s all!\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cListen, Linda,\u201d Andrew said, getting to his feet, \u201cI know you deserve better\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes, I do! And the ring!\u201d she scoffed. \u201cWhat is that? The biggest zirconia you could find? It\u2019s tatty, just like you! When I get married, it\u2019s going to be to a man of means, you understand?\u201d And she turned and walked out, leaving Andrew shattered.<\/p>\n
The next days, Cynthia could see that there was something wrong with Andrew. He no longer smiled and joked, he lost weight and he looked heartbroken. \u201cAndrew,\u201d she said gently. \u201cShe\u2019s not worth it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat?\u201d asked Andrew. \u201cWhat do you mean?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cLinda,\u201d Cynthia explained. \u201cI should have told you, but you were so in love\u2026You see, Linda always boasted in high school that she was going to marry rich. I knew she was leading you on\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cShut up!\u201d Andrew screamed. \u201cI don\u2019t want to hear you. You think you are my friend? You don\u2019t even know me!\u201d Cynthia turned deadly pale and walked out of the office. As soon as she was gone, Andrew regretted his outburst.<\/p>\n
He phoned Cynthia but she didn\u2019t pick up. He sent her text messages but she didn\u2019t answer. On his way to work the next morning, Andrew bought a huge bouquet of flowers for Cynthia but when he got to the office she wasn\u2019t there.<\/p>\n
Andrew asked his office supervisor where Cynthia was, and he told her she had asked to be transferred to another department. The young man was devastated. He had hurt his one true friend over a gold digger!<\/p>\n
As the weeks passed, he missed Cynthia more and more. He remembered the fun they\u2019d had together, and how sweet and kind Cynthia was. He decided to win his friend back.<\/p>\n
He knocked on Cynthia\u2019s door and waited nervously until she opened it. \u201cI\u2019m sorry,\u201d he said. \u201cPlease, Cynthia, forgive me. Be my friend again.\u201d<\/p>\n
Cynthia shook her head. \u201cNo Andrew, I can\u2019t. You see, when you started seeing Linda I realized I was in love with you\u2026\u201d But before she could say another word, Andrew had thrown his arms around her and was kissing her.<\/p>\n
Things worked out the way they always do when two good hearts find each other, and a year later, Andrew and Cynthia were married.<\/p>\n
Linda got a bit of a shock when she saw the headlines over her morning coffee, \u201cHardy Industry Heir Marries in Romantic Ceremony,\u201d next to a photo of Andrew and Cynthia kissing. She had missed out on her shot at a millionaire\u2026<\/p>\n
Greed and a cold heart are bad counselors.\u00a0Linda could have married a wealthy man who adored her, but her gold-digging instincts led her to reject him because she thought he was poor.
\nThe most precious quality in a friend is kindness and honesty.\u00a0Andrew learned to value Cynthia\u2019s good heart and kindness more than Linda\u2019s beauty.
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A millionaire tests his girlfriend by inviting her home to a very old dilapidated house and proposing she marry him. Andrew Hardy had spent his childhood in an unhappy home. His mother had married his father for his money, and once she\u2019d given birth to Andrew, she\u2019d considered her duty done. Andrew had seen […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6496,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tales"],"yoast_head":"\n