In the midst of the swirling rumours and inquisitive glances, the boss's requests began to take an odd turn. He had always been eccentric, but his demands started to cross the line into bizarre.

One morning, he asked me to come to work wearing a red bow tie. It was an odd request but I dismissed it as one of his eccentricities and complied. The questions around the office increased but I shrugged them off, telling my colleagues that the boss just had a peculiar sense of humor.

Then, he asked me to bring my wife's coat to the office. This request caught me off guard, it was stranger than anything he had asked before. I hesitated, wondering if this was some sort of joke. But his serious expression told me he wasn't joking. So, I took my wife's coat to the office the next day, causing a flurry of bemused looks from my colleagues.

I began to feel like a character in a surreal play, with the office as my stage and my coworkers as the audience. But the full script remained a mystery, even to me. I could only wonder what unusual request would come next and how this strange turn of events would affect our secret relationship.

[To be continued...]