Office Relationship Novels & Stories

"It is James." James. Client relations. Warm and expansive. The person who makes rooms feel larger. I look at her. "Complicated how?" I ask. "He is my colleague. And Helena has a policy." "Helena's policy is declaration not prohibition," I say. "You declare a relationship to HR and to the relevant line manager. That is all." "I know," she says. "I have been avoiding declaring it because once it is declared, it is real and once it is real, it is something that could end and affect everything."