Romance stories with heat

FLIGHT RISK

Zakes Mdluli · 11 hr

One team charter, one season, and two people who would each lose everything if anyone saw them. His rule was simple: she would have to be the one to ask.

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MINA NAWE

Zakes Mdluli · 8 hr

Two years divorced, and Naledi still opens the restaurant with him every morning. Nobody ever told her how to stop wanting a man she was the one to walk away from.

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SAY THE WORD

Zakes Mdluli · 2 hr 33 min

She plans her meals two weeks ahead and sorts her socks by day of the week. Tonight she is going to do exactly one reckless thing, and it is going to take five weeks to find out what she started.

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THE PARAGON

Zakes Mdluli · 6 hr

I went to time the walk to my first proper job and ended up flat on the marble of a Sandton lobby, looking up at the man who owns the building. By Thursday he had told me exactly what he wanted from me — no dinner, no flowers, no romance in it anywhere.

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THE SECOND TAKE

Zakes Mdluli · 3 hr 39 min

At eighteen, Chandré Cupido spent one night on her parents' roof with the quietest boy on the team, and the next day he inherited everything her family had been promised. Twelve years later he walks back in — rich, famous, and still looking at her exactly the same way.

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UBUYILE

Zakes Mdluli · 1 hr 36 min

He is the correspondent the country trusts with the worst news; she is the face it wakes up to every morning. Between them they have a stage, a big screen, a few hundred students and nowhere private left to finish a twenty-year-old conversation.

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93 DAYS

Zakes Mdluli · 7 hr

Vusi Hadebe has ninety-three days before they fly him to the Gaborone gallows. He will only talk to one reporter — a woman two months into the job, who has never understood why her. By the time she does, it is far too late for either of them to be saved.

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NO SIGNAL

Zakes Mdluli · 3 hr 14 min

The car dies on a Waterberg gravel road with no signal, no traffic and one weathered board pointing eight kilometres down a farm track. The farm is not what the board says it is.

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