This story was written for Writers’ Circus in response to the topic ‘St Valentine’s Day’.

The main protagonist is a single woman called Jean, a career-minded Chartered Accountant who set her sights on becoming a Partner in Ernst & Young.

Although not miserly, Jean is careful with money, risk-averse.

As she approaches retirement, Jean has a nice house, adequate savings and a good occupational pension to draw on.

But then her health fails.

This not a rags to riches story but their are elements of this notion in this tale.

Jean’s birthday is 14th Fenruary and she has adopted # 142 as her lucky number for raffles.

Jean has a clever nephew, her godson Trevor whom she adopts when her sister dies.

You have around 4,500 words to entertain you.

I invite you to download the PDF and ‘Read On’.

(The final version was self-edited using Read Aloud in Word so please forgive any typos and missing words etc and make your best guess to allow the story to flow.)