TAKING ORDERS FROM THE BOSS

About this story

There are offices where people go to work, and offices where every glance becomes a message. On Alice Lane, the new director has a quiet voice, a charcoal suit, and an assistant who knows exactly how he takes his coffee. Nompumelelo has survived a bad breakup by becoming indispensable. Philani has survived corporate battles by being the man who always gets what he wants. Put them in the same glass-walled office and the rules begin to look thin. A lunch invitation becomes a test. A private message becomes a promise. By the time rain traps them above the Sandton lights, the building is empty but their history is already writing itself. TAKING ORDERS FROM THE BOSS is a short, hot workplace fantasy about being seen at the exact moment you thought you had learned how to disappear. The only question is whether the lift can carry them back down before temptation becomes a habit.