...
As Nathalie stared at her boss with the most loving glare, he lifted his face up from her chest and placed a kiss onto her lips.

"I love you." He smiled then tilted his head to the side and laid it back down onto Nathalie's bare chest. "You're so beautiful."

"Oh sir please...you don't have to-"

"-but what if I wanted to?" He cut her off "What if I really wanted to tell you how much I love you?"

"Well..." she grinned looking at her superior "...you sort of already made that clear..."

"Did I? Was it clear enough?" He smirked "Do you need any reassurance honey, because if yes then-"

"-Sir I'm pretty sure this was just enough!"

"Just?"

"More than!" Nathalie corrected herself.

Nevertheless Gabriel was still not fully convinced.
He had to ask again, simply go to make sure, and to hear his assistant's lovely voice reassure.

"Are you sure Nath?" He began, sounding rather serious "Because you know that I'd love to spend all of my days with you like this. Lying on the bed together whilst not at all thinking of anything else other than each other. Or at least I hope you're thinking of me because I'm sure thinking of you."

"I am thinking of you sir." She giggled seeing the man's face light up the second she admitted that.

"Good." He smiled, then kissed her again.

Yet before the dark haired woman could've reciprocated his kind gestures a quite loud knock was heard on the door.

"Father!!!" Came an even louder yell, now obviously from Adrien.

Gabriel sighed, as he had to lift himself off of Nathalie, and also had to put on some form of clothes so that he could go and open the door to see what his child wanted so desperately.

However as he opened the door, Adrien wasn't looking so excited, instead he looked a bit worried while he handed over his phone to his father and explained:

"Alice is calling. She says it's urgent!"

"Alice?!?!" Exclaimed both adults making the blond boy realize that somewhere in the background, the assistant was also there.
So to leave the conversation on a happier note he smirked at his dad before saying:

"I'll go since I'm not very useful in 'important adult stuff', but you and Nathalie just have fun, okay? Bye!"

"I-okay-bye." The designer managed to mumble before getting an insanely red blush.

Thankfully though he already closed the door before his son could've seen his flustered face, so the two work partners were saved from any further embarrassment.

Now the grey haired man simply had to answer the phone, which he was quite hesitant to do at first, but as he thought again about his daughter he without question began:

"Alice? Hello? Is everything alright?"

"Hi dad." Her voice returned, enthusiastically "I'm fine, In fact as of right now everything is fine...but...I was just wondering if you and Nathalie...and maybe Adrien if he wouldn't mind...could come to London for a bit..."

"For what reason exactly?"

"I-..." she hesitated for a bit, being unsure of how her father would react to the following words, nevertheless after a few seconds of stuttering Alice finally managed to say what was important "...uh-...I'm getting married-"

"YOU WHAT?!?!" Gabriel exclaimed so loudly that it even made Nathalie jump "YOU'RE SERIOUS NOW? THIS ISN'T A JOKE??" He went on yelling and shouting making his assistant a bit worried about the situation.
However, instead of asking questions, the woman just continued to listen on.

"N-no dad." The blond woman laughed on the other side of the phone whilst imagining how surprised her father must've looked, and indeed he was looking very surprised, even scared and terrified.

"S-so-...w-who a-are y-you m-marry-

"You know him! Your good-...friend? No-...not friend...he is shaking his head right now when I say friend so I assume you two didn't get along very well."

"MARTIN?!?!" Gabriel blurted out suddenly whilst having the most flabbergasted face ever.

"YES!! It's him!!"

"OH YOU-...I'm so very happy for the two of you! It's wonderful news! And of course we'll be there."

"Good! Okay!" Alice sighed in relief.
After all her father's reaction wasn't so bad like she'd expected it to be.
"I can't wait to see you!" She added now more than happy "It's in about-...two days...yeah, sorry for not telling you earlier, I was simply a bit hesitant and scared that you might not react well, but with a bit of encouragement from...your not so much friend, I finally gathered the confidence!"

"Well." The grey haired man was obviously smiling, so much that even his daughter could sense it through the phone "I'm glad I could get invited. So see you soon, right?"

"Right! Bye-bye dad, and tell Nathalie plus my brother that I send kisses to them!"

"Okay I will, though I'm pretty sure Nathalie heard that...you see she's not so far away from me, just lying on the bed."

"Oh!" Alice laughed "Alright then, bye-bye father and Nathalie! Love you both."

"Love you!"

With that their conversation ended and Gabriel put the phone down whilst having the widest smile anyone has ever seen on his face.

"Those are wonderful news, aren't they?" He asked walking close to Nathalie, and then sitting on the edge of the bed whilst waiting for an answer, which soon came from the equally happy woman of his. 

"They really are!" The assistant agreed "But now I'll have to figure out what to wear in a rush, oh god."

"Nathalie, Nathalie, Nathalie." He placed a soft kiss onto her forehead "I'll find you something breathtaking, okay?"

"Okay."

"In fact" Gabriel emphasized "you'll look so good that I'll want to marry you right then and there."

"Sir! It's your daughter's wedding! You can't just-"

"Well I hope it'll be ours soon."

"Sir!!" The assistant shook her head all flustered, but before her superior could've said anything further another knock interrupted.

"Dad!!!"
It was Adrien again, yelling loudly, just like before.
"Father can I have my phone back?!?!"

"Of course you can Adrien." Gabriel rolled his eyes annoyed before getting up from the bed.
"Of course." With that he handed over the phone to the teenager and finally slammed the door shut.

"Now my love." The man turned to his beloved employee "if no one will interrupt us anymore, I'll go and lay next to you, would you like that?"

"Very much." She smiled lovingly at her boss who rather quickly made his way to her.

"Good because I wasn't planning to change my mind either way."

With that Gabriel laid down next to his assistant who very soon proceeded to lay on top of him, and with no further interruptions (thankfully) they both went back to sleep.

...

After a little while both adults were woken up by the sudden sound of a rainstorm, and once they realized that they've almost slept through the entire day they both jumped to their feet.

"Oh I'm so sorry sir!" Nathalie began "This is all my fault! We overslept because of me, we couldn't get done any work today because of me a-and-" She was about to add something, but before she could've, her boss kissed her, and with that basically made the assistant go quiet for a second.
Then she tried again to speak, but Gabriel this time placed his finger over her mouth, to stop her like that.

"Hush." He said "You did nothing wrong my love and you shouldn't be angry at yourself."

"B-but-"

"No! Don't speak because I want to tell you how wonderful it was to spend time with you, without doing anything else, without working or thinking about things other than you.
My love trust me this was a wonderful day wonderfully spent. And even if we were just lying on the bed together...even then, it felt like the best time of my life, okay? So now don't look so sad, and definitely don't cry."

However Nathalie's tears were unstoppable as they had already rolled down her cheek and completely blurred the assistant's entire vision.

"G-Gabriel-" she managed to mumble quite weekly "I-...that-...was so-...I can't f-find the w-words."

"Oh that's alright love." The designer smiled before pulling his employee close and placing a heartfelt kiss on top of her head "I didn't mean to overwhelm you."

"Y-you didn't-...w-well actually...you did...but in a good way of course, however I-I-I j-just can't b-believe y-you'd say y-you'd want to m-marry me-...t-that's s-so-...overwhelming!"

"Nathalie dear-"

"No stop it!" She shouted "Don't call me that!"

"But-"

"Sir! I said stop! I-I j-just c-can't! I-...I can't-"

"But love-..." Gabriel didn't stop "I meant it...I truly meant it. I want to marry you, I want you to be my wife and maybe even the mother of-"

"NO! GABRIEL ENOUGH! Can't you hear that I've already told you to shut up like two times! So please quit saying all these nice things b-because-"

"Because are you afraid to trust me? Do you think I won't actually love you? Do you think-"

"Yes!!" She shouted, not only scaring the man in front of her, but also scaring herself after realizing how aggressive that sounded.
So Nathalie took a minute or two to calm down before she could explain:
"Yes I think you'll fool me!" The assistant admitted "And yes I'm scared that it'll end up like all of the last times before! Indeed that is my biggest fear right now, and I can't help it, my feelings are valid!"

"Of course they are but-"

"No but!" She cut him off again "I simply don't want to go through another heartbreak ever again! I-I-...I just want t-to-...be happy-...a-and not constantly worry if someone likes me or if they're just pretending to like me so they can get over their 'dead' wife!"

The designer instantly gasped to the sound of that.
In fact he even began to tear up, so as quick as the grey haired man could, he hurried to wipe away his tears, but even before he could've lifted his arm, suddenly Nathalie unabled him to move by hugging the man.

"I'm sorry sir." She whispered "I was a bit too harsh there. I apologize."
With that the dark haired woman squeezed herself against him tightly, before letting go and moving back a bit.
"I am really sorry." She repeated again, still looking at her superior's broken expression which stared down.
He looked hurt, truly hurt.
Yet when the man looked up to share a second of eye contact with his employee he wasn't at all mad at her, instead his eyes simply admired her, not at all despised her.

This was even fascinating to the assistant who had worked with him for so many years.
She knew her boss.
He'd get mad and frustrated easily, but now, as he looked at her it was completely different.
The grey haired man only shed one single tear, he didn't even yell, he didn't even shout, he only shed one tear and smiled:

"Apology accepted."  Gabriel returned without hesitation, now his lips curling into a smile which scared his employee a bit "Anyways, let's move on and have dinner, or just at least go downstairs to see how Adrien is feeling."

Nathalie nodded, then maneuvered to the other side on the bed and gathered her clothes from the floor. However, shortly after realizing that her clothes were party clothes and not appropriate for Adrien to see, she gave her boss a quick glance who almost instantly knew what she wanted.

"Feel free to look through my closet." Said he "And pick whatever you like because I know you'll look pretty!!"

To be continued-