"Your enemy?!?!" Gabriel exclaimed in shock "Why on earth are you trying to seduce your enemy?!?"

"Who said I was seducing him?!?" The assistant shouted back feeling offended as she existed the bathroom, still wearing the designer's piece from the new collection, except she covered it with a towel before coming out to see her boss.
"I never even said I slept with him!!" She said in defense trying to prove herself, yet Nathalie still felt as if he was judging her when Gabriel's facial expression didn't change from that concerned and sort of disturbed look.

He stared at her as if they were complete strangers, not even a smile or just a little acceptance in his look. It was all cold and disgusted.
However in that moment in which Nathalie felt absolutely worthless, the man suddenly shook his head, looked back at his assistant, and when he saw that her face was tilted down in shame, he placed his hand on her shoulder.

"You look good in the...uhm...piece though."

"Huh?" the woman asked, not having a clue about what he meant.

"The piece..." he repeated himself, this time looking down at her with his eyes to gesture what he meant "the one I gave you just now."

"OH!" Nathalie jumped "OH SHIT!" She quickly hurried to hold her towel, but then she realized that she was holding it already and literally nothing was showing of the lingerie set.

'So then why did he compliment her?' She wondered, but before the assistant could've asked, her boss answered.

"I mean I didn't see it don't worry I only said it because...well this was the first time that I saw you wearing something which didn't cover your  shoulder, and also the first time I see your hair down...so...I just assumed it would look great...b-because you look great like this!"

"I-"

"Maybe you should even try dresses sometimes, o-or some blouses which don't have much sleeves. O-only if you'd feel comfortable like that of course."

"Uhm-...thank you sir." Nathalie managed to utter, despite being quite flustered by her superior's suddenly very pleasant personality and sweetly sounding voice "I-I actually wouldn't mind trying something new...you know, I would want something...exciting in my life!"

"Oh I see." He smiled and also somewhat smirked, but only for a split second so that his assistant wouldn't get a glimpse of him not being his cold, 'sophisticated' self.
Nevertheless, the woman saw just what she wanted and that had her smiling too.

So now without noticing it much, the two adults stared at each other, quietly giggling whilst widely smiling at one another as if they were the happiest people ever.

"Nath you know...I might have just the thing for you."

"You do sir?"

"I think I do." Gabriel said again, smiling even more as she showed interest in the things which he suggested, and that made the designer the happiest man alive.
"It's downstairs though...a-and it is a bit of a job to get it together, so since you're tired maybe we shouldn't-"

"Oh it's fine." The woman cut him off chuckling "It's not like we were gonna sleep anyways, or at least I wasn't because-...whatever let's not get into it...we should just go see the 'thing' which you have for me, and I guess make it through the night with a coffee or two."

"Sounds perfect Nath." The man smiled as he couldn't have ever been happier then he was right at this moment.

The simple fact that his assistant wanted to try something which was not only out of her comfort zone, but also designed by him, got Gabriel absolutely thrilled.

He couldn't wait to show her and hopefully make her fall in love with the piece, so like an impatient toddler, the designer grabbed onto his assistant's hand and without a word dragged her downstairs.
In fact Gabriel ran so fast down the stairs that his assistant couldn't quite keep up as she still had to hold her towel with one hand and hold his hand with the other.
Therefore moving like that for the woman was quite a job, and as her boss literally pulled her down the staircase, she instantly lost her balance and almost crashed down onto the ground.

Well almost.
That would've been if her superior wouldn't have turned around the second in which he heard her scream, and then attempt to catch her.
Thankfully the attempt was a successful one as he did indeed catch her and neither of them fell.

They only collided a little bit causing Nathalie to have dropped her towel when she fell against her superior's chest. But luckily enough for the woman, this situation wasn't as bad as it could've been since her boss had also dropped his glasses, making him practically blind.
So at least he couldn't see her, only feel that what was a soft towel before, now sensed to be his assistant's skin.

"Uhm Nath?" The man gulped unsure of how to phrase his sentence

"Yes sir?" The woman also swallowed hard and responded in fear as she felt her boss's hands move on her body in an unsure manner.

"Pardon my next few words, but are you...are you wearing anything?"

"I-...uhm I indeed am sir. You know the piece which you've designed for your next collection..."

"Oh, right, I feel it. I mean I sense the fabric with my hand. Sorry that sounded weird and I apologize for being so creepy and touching you like this. I didn't mean it in a wrong way, I just can't see anything!"

"Y-yes I see that you can't see." Nathalie commented making her boss chuckle a little as he heard his assistant's sarcastic voice.

"Do I look stupid Nath?" He asked now smiling and staring at everywhere possible, except the woman's face.

"Not really, you just look a bit strange without glasses and your eyes appear...weirder...but otherwise I'd say I can recognize you sir."

"Oh great." Gabriel tried to roll his eyes jokingly "Though I think you're making it sound better than it actually is. I bet I'm like staring at the floor or somewhere stupid."

"Well...you're staring at me." The assistant admitted. "And I'm rather very happy that you're so blind in this moment, because otherwise I think I'd quit my job from embarrassment."

"Oh." The designer understood what she meant "I-well-uhm-...I apologize, I didn't mean to look, although I can't see, but you know I didn't mean to tilt my head in such a way. Sorry."

Gabriel now quickly hurried to turn his head away, but he didn't know which way was 'away'.
So the man could only hope that he was no longer staring at his assistant in a inappropriate way, and instead he'd be looking at the floor or somewhere along those lines.

"Am I still looking at you?" He questioned to make sure he wasn't.

"No sir, now you're looking to your side."

"Great! That was my goal." He said in relief "But now can you help me find my glasses? Of course though, you first find your towel, but then after that...you know...I'd like to see again sometime soon."

"O-of course sir!"
Without hesitation the dark haired woman grabbed the towel up from the floor, and after covering herself, she reached down to pick up her superior's glasses.

"Here." She placed them onto his face "Is it better now?"

"Much better" Gabriel replied after he'd adjusted his glasses and now saw everything crystal clearly "Thank you Nathalie, and again I'm sorry."

"There's no need sir. It could've been much more worse and awkward for the both of us. Plus, I guess at least neither of us fell down the stairs or injured ourselves. So-...we are both fine, right?"

"Well as long as you're fine, I'm fine. I just didn't want to make you feel disturbed by me or something like that."

"Sir I didn't."

"I-I know, b-but tonight I've both said and done so much weird stuff that I thought you'd be scared!"

"Sir-"

"No Nathalie quiet!" The designer shouted without even noticing, but the second after those words left his mouth, both him and the assistant seemed shocked.

Never has she heard him be so stubborn out of nowhere, it even worried the woman a little bit, so as Nathalie didn't want to evoke any further drama, she just went quiet like he had told her to do.

"Nathalie I'm so sorry, I don't know what that was! Y-you can speak I didn't mean to."

"It's fine sir."

"No it's not, I need to work on my manners. I shouldn't be treating you like this!"

"You are treating me fine!"

"No I'm not!" He shouted again, except this time not holding back "I'm sorry for everything I've done! I'm sorry for making you try this, making you fall, making you uncomfortable, and I'm so sorry for making you feel anything which wasn't pleasant. I'm sorry Nathalie. Please just forgive me."

To be continued-