Recognition

“I wonder,” A smooth, heavily accented voice rang out in her ears as shock surged through her at the sound. “What a beautiful Midgardian woman such as yourself sits by all her lonesome on such a day?”

A loud gasp escaped her as her posture straightened up completely in response to the resounding feeling of a forming Soulmate Bond deep inside her very being. There standing next to her table is the stupidly handsome raven-haired man. “AND HE JUST SAID MY WORDS!!”

She gulped as her widened raincloud-colored eyes locked in with his incredibly intense emerald ones. Honesty rang loudly as she said, “I’m not that beautiful. Pretty, maybe. But not beautiful.”

Whether it had been the lighting or her own imagination, but his eyes glowed with unbidden intensity as he gestured with long-fingered hands. “May I?”