The Richest Woman in the World
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Samantha McDonald was born with a silver spoon in her mouth. She had everything she could ever want. But, then, she was exposed to another environment entirely, and she learned a lot about herself. Her life would never be the same.
Timothy Paterson
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The Richest Woman in the World - Timothy Paterson
The Richest Woman in the World
Timothy Paterson
Smashwords Edition
Copyright 2012
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Chapter 1
Samantha McDonald was a princess. No, she was not born of royal blood, and she did not live in a castle. She was the only daughter of Alex and Diana McDonald, who treated her like a princess, her entire life.
Samantha had been spoiled since she was born. She and her parents lived in the most exclusive part of Beverly Hills, California. Her father was a tax attorney whose client list read like a who’s who list of Hollywood. Her mother did not work, unless one considers shopping, a profession. When she was not spending money, she was attending social gatherings with the other wealthy wives of Beverly Hills.
Because Samantha’s mother was not the motherly type, she hired an entire staff to take care of her daughter. The staff consisted of a cook, a housekeeper and a nanny. Samantha was waited on, hand and foot. She never had to do household chores, and she even had a personal collection of tutors to help her with her schoolwork.
Yes, Samantha had everything that she could possibly want, but she was about to lose everything, unless she could prove that she could handle the responsibility of being wealthy.
Samantha was the last McDonald in her family line. Her father was an only child; as was his father; Henry McDonald. It was Jim McDonald; Henry’s father and Samantha’s great grandfather who had made the family fortune that supported the entire family.
Jim purchased thousands of acres of land in Oklahoma in the early 1940’s when land was very cheap. He made a lot of money raising cattle. In the 1960’s, he discovered that there was an enormous supply of oil under the land. Jim became a multimillionaire overnight. Later, he moved his family to Northern California, and invested in vineyards. Everything that Jim touched seemed to turn into gold. He soon became the richest man in California.
Now, at the age of ninety, Jim was very disappointed at how materialistic and how spoiled his family had become. He knew that there was no hope of changing his son or grandson, but he hoped that it was not too late to show his great granddaughter Samantha, that there were more important things than money.
Jim set up a private meeting with Samantha, on her sixteenth birthday. Jim made her a business proposition. If she could survive as a normal teenager, and give up her lavish lifestyle for one year, he would give her fifty million dollars on her seventeenth birthday. Before Samantha could answer, Jim told her that there were certain conditions that she must obey.
Samantha could not tell anyone that she came from a wealthy family. She could not receive any financial assistance from her family of friends. Jim told his great granddaughter that she would be living in another part of the country, as an exchange student. All correspondence with her parents or grandparents would go through Jim, so that only he and Samantha would know where she was living.
Samantha did not take long to reach a decision. She felt certain that she could survive one year without her money and luxuries, if it meant that she would receive fifty million dollars at the end of the year. Samantha and Jim both signed the contract. Jim told Samantha that she would fly to the secret location as the school year ended in May. She would spend one year in her new environment, and return to California the following May. Only Jim would know where she was living.
Samantha’s parents and grandparents were not too thrilled with the arrangement, but since Jim was in control of the family fortune, they did not want to argue with him.
One week before school let out for the summer, Jim took Samantha on a shopping trip. She was