Humility was an attractive quality in a man who looked the way Graham did, and the way he so easily brushed off her comment about women lining up for him made her smile. She knew that whether he reciprocated or not, he would be one to get more than one or two admiring glances, or perhaps even more than that. For all the attractive people she'd met in the Nexus already, Graham surely stood out among them. What woman wouldn't leap at a chance with him? God knew she'd tried more than once, and now that he seemed interested, almost eager to be with her, she felt giddy and almost flustered beneath his attention.

At his words, then, she blinked at him for a second, her first instinct to laugh such an earnest, overwhelming compliment away until she saw the seriousness in his expression. It wasn't as though Ruby spent her life feeling ignored or lacked confidence as a general rule, but that he would speak so highly of her, even if it was just some sort of platitude meant to flatter, left her feeling stunned and even a bit emotional. She swallowed thickly, at a loss for what to say before settling on another smile. "Graham... Thank you. Gosh. That's the nicest compliment anyone has ever given me."