After the teenager left the two adults could finally have some peace to themselves.

Well that would've been only if Nathalie wouldn't have completely crumbled and started sobbing.

She began blaming herself because Adrien found out, and then she even went on to apologize to Gabriel alongside with suggesting to him that he should fire her. The reason for that she said was her unacceptable not professional behavior, however the designer simply thought this was all bullshit.

"Nathalie I won't ever fire you no matter what!" He yelled "You're basically apart of our family, and this small incident was nothing to be scared of, okay?"

"No, not okay!" The assistant screamed back furiously whilst wiping her own tears away that kept coming uncontrollably "I messed up! Very very bad! And I could've even caused you to be in bigger trouble!"

"Right." Gabriel sighed quietly as he gave up with the arguing, and instead just walked over to take ahold of the sobbing woman's face and hopefully comfort her by that "Look here Nath, in reality nothing much happened. It was simply my son waking into this room and seeing something he shouldn't have, but it wasn't even that bad! So it's not like the paparazzi found out or anything!"

"Yes but what if Adrien tells his classmates, or worse someone like Chloe who then will tell her mother, and I don't want Audrey lecturing me about how I'm an attention whore!"

"She won't!" The designer reassured "and if she does I'll tell her to shut up."

"Mhm, right." An unsure mumble came from the young assistant who without saying anything further turned away, and freed her face from the hands of her boss who now couldn't comfort her any better.
In fact no one could, so it wasn't really Gabriel's fault, but he felt like the main blame.

After all he was the one who started the kiss and encouraged his employee by agreeing to be in a relationship with her.
However as of right now all that backfired and the grey haired man wished that he would've never even suggested such a dumb thing like being together.

"You know what Nathalie if this whole relationship thing is making you feel bad then we should just-"

"NO!" She blurted out somewhat accidentally "I-...I mean no."

"No?" Gabriel repeated a bit confused.

"No, and by that I mean the relationship thing doesn't bother me at all! It's only others knowing about it which places pressure on me. Otherwise I'm very happy to know that you sir gave me a chance."

"Well of course, that's understandable. I guess we'll just have to get used to it."

"I guess." She shrugged a bit unsurely, but the smile of her superior brightened everything up alongside with the mood of the young woman who therefore couldn't help but smile honestly, in addition even take a small step closer to him and look up to the grey haired man "...and I'm sure there's also other things to get used to."

"Like?" He asked asked confused

"Like being less professional around each other...right? Or would you like me to act professional towards you even when we're alone?"

"Oh no! Not at all, please feel free to act however you please. Only keep the professional attitude in the office, and well-...around Audrey."

"Of course." Nathalie rolled her eyes "I almost forgot about her."

"Well unfortunately she's unforgettable, and I mean that in not a good way."

The two work partners laughed in agreement knowing damn well exactly how stubborn Audrey was and how much trouble they both would be in if she would've found out, though right now neither of them worried, or even bothered to think of any realistic consequences due to them being together.
Instead the two adults just completely forgot all they knew and shared a moment of eye contact which said more than any of them could've said in word.

It explained clearly to both individuals how they obviously had interests in one another, but when the dark haired woman's eyes sparkled a little more than her boss's it became obvious that she was the more obsessed one who fully loved the other, in the meantime Gabriel eyes simply remained fix on Nathalie as he slowly mumbled:

"I lo-like you, a lot."

The assistant jumped to that and instantly broke the eye contact which caused the atmosphere to quickly become awkward and with that forcing Nathalie to change the topic.

"Where were we?!?!" The dark haired woman shook her head as she focused back into reality realizing she totally blanked out a second ago.
"Sir? Hello?" Now she waived her hand in front of the man's face who still barely reacted other than a few blinks, but as soon as the assistant began snapping her fingers loudly, Gabriel also 'woke up'.

"Yes? Anything wrong Nathalie?"

"No not at all, we just both seemed to be lost a little, don't you think?"

"Yeah, however I could get lost in those ocean colored eyes of yours any day, darling." The designer teased smirkingly.

"I-"

"Sorry was that too much??"

"N-no-...not at all." She stuttered "I'm fine."
However that very red blush Nathalie suddenly had on made it quite obvious to Gabriel that not everything was alright.

So without trying to laugh or do anything that could make the woman think of a bad reaction, the designer walked closer and once again took her face into his hand, except now the only difference was the way he held onto her.

In this moment both of Gabriel's palms laid on either side of Nathalie's overheating cheeks.

"Are you sure you're good?"  He asked only flustering her further and making the dark haired woman almost faint. But she couldn't. The simple, gentle touch of her superior held her up like none other. So just like that the assistant stood standing straight, staring right into her boss's intimidatingly pale eyes.

"Actually...not really sir."

"What's wrong then?"

"Nothing is wrong," she whispered "however I do want to say that you have me feeling very special right now. Especially since you're insanely close."

"Oh" Gabriel reacted surprised, but also pleased by seeing that he'd done what he hoped to achieve "I see. So would you like me to get closer or-"

"Oh yes please, that's all I want."

To be continued-

Once again...I'm too tired to write more.