"I-wow-...s-so you're telling me that I was that bad of a human being back then?" Nathalie questioned after hearing all of the stories which Gabriel told.
Now she really seemed to be the main villain of the story, even though she remembered absolutely nothing of that.

"Well...you weren't the bad one. I was simply influencing you."

"And I was that obedient?" The assistant questioned "Did I really neglect Emilie's feelings just to be with you? Did I completely ignore the fact that you two had a baby? Did I really?" She asked now with tears flowing out of her eyes and quickly running down her cheek "Because if yes I can't believe how horrible I was...and still am."
Nathalie broke down, and ended up on the floor, sobbing, however the man with no heart couldn't just stand there watching his dear employee suffer like that.
He had to help her.

So with a sigh he shook his head, kneeled down before her and lifted Nathalie's face up to create eye contact between them.

"Nath you're not horrible!" Admitted the designer as he placed a soft kiss onto the side of Nathalie's cheek, and after caressed that spot whilst he spoke on: "trust me you're a great person, and 'that' past event was only because-...well-..let's just say both of us made some pretty dumb mistakes back then. But that's the past and-"

"No Gabriel! I can't ignore the fact that I had an affair with you and by that betrayed my apparently 'best friend' who was also your wife! Plus you two had a kid! A-and I-I j-just-...I'm a monster!!" She cried, ripping her boss's hands off of her and pushing him aside so that she could distance herself from him.
"I'm a literal monster!! I'm the reason this family is so messed up! I-It's all me! All along I've been the problem!"

"No you're not Nathalie! Calm down, you did nothing wrong! It was all me, I persuaded you into getting with me because...to be honest I think that we both liked each other and-"

"BUT YOU HAD A WIFE!!!" She screamed grabbing her superior's vest and instantly pulling him close, in a rough way though. "AND A CHILD WITH HER!!! I-I WAS ONLY AN ASSISTANT!!"

"Oh c'mon now, you know that you've always been more than that to me." Gabriel scoffed "I swear, from the day I saw you sitting in front of me, doing your job interview, I knew we wouldn't just be two work partners. I knew it, and look now. You're having...my baby?" Gabriel said with a shy smile to which Nathalie didn't reply, she simply let go of his shirt, shook her head, and whispered:

"Well-...r-right-...a-about that sir-...I'm not sure what to do!"

Now the assistant turned her 'fallen down' head upwards to meet her eyes with her boss's, and as soon as they met, she knew what he'd answer by those many tears in his eyes.

"You mean you want to get rid of it?" Gabriel questioned with a trebling voice, trying to hide the fact that he didn't at all want her to do so, but that shaking voice of his sabotaged the original plan immediately.

Therefore the assistant knew and now she felt guiltier than every about those next few words that she would mumble quietly:

"I-...m-maybe...I don't know, I'm not so sure if I was made to be a mother. I mean I know I took good care of Adrien, but this is different! T-this f-feels more complicated...a-and I don't perform well under pressure. You know that too!"

"Right, I do." The designer sighed "So how about we make our way slowly over to my bed and there you can take a nap, whilst I tell you more things you forgot."

Nathalie without hesitation agreed to that suggestion and indeed in a couple minutes time the two work partners were on Gabriel's bed talking.

Nathalie had just changed into a shirt which she borrowed from her boss, whilst the grey haired man himself was changing as of right now.

"So..." he had his back turned towards the dark haired woman whom was admiring that a lot since Gabriel was shirtless, looking for a shirt in his closet.
He looked very appealing, especially to her, and if Nathalie wouldn't have focused back into reality she would've completely forgotten the topic of discussion.

"So sir?" The assistant managed to say as she shook her head and focused onto the man's face once he turned toward her and then put his shirt on.

"So I also wanted to tell you that-..."

"That?"

"That I am really not that nice of a guy." Said Gabriel, disappointed in his own self.

After that he sat down onto the bed and took Nathalie's hands into his, gave them a gentle kiss, and then placed them delicately back to where they were before.

"Nath I am a monster, you shouldn't-"

"I know." She cut him off "you've told me all about it!"

"So then why don't you run? Why do you choose to stay? You know I'm no good and I definitely won't be able to raise that kid...yet you're still here. Why?"

"Because I love you." she replied in an instant, without any hesitation "I love you madly. It makes me blind to the point where I wouldn't care what you'd do to me. All I want is to be yours, truly."

"B-but N-nath-"

"I-I'd do anything for you Gabriel!! " the assistant admitted as she desperately grabbed her boss's pijama shirt, and forced him closer, so that their noses were touching.
Then right when he looked up into her crystal eyes, Nathalie smiled again, and slowly whispered: "Anything!"

"I-...no Nathalie don't say that!"

"But I mean it!"

"No enough stop it!" He broke away "You can't do that! I simply just won't allow you loving me!!"

"Why?!?!" The dark haired woman let out a high pitched shout as she heard the terrific news. "You don't have to lose anything with this, in fact you're the one winning in the situation!!"

"Yes and that is the exact problem! Can't you understand Nathalie that we've been here before?!! We have loved each other before!! We had a relationship before, you just don't remember exactly. But we did, and it all went downhill exactly because of behaviors like these. So now, I won't repeat my same mistakes, and as difficult as it will be, I'll still treat you right!!"

"I-..." the assistant teared up by the end of it, and all she could do to thank the man, was stand up and fall into his arms.
So she did that.
And after collapsing in Gabriel's arms Nathalie knew that she was absolutely fucked, because in reality she could never leave the man she loved this much.

To be continued-