Dialogue Nugget Sunday - Love, Eternally

Gigi stood, frozen with shock. She knew that laugh, that turn of the head, that man. “Magnus!” she cried out, and started running. “Magnus!”
His eyebrows shot up, his emotions raw, exposed––recognition, disbelief, joy.
“Gigi!” he yelled.
And then he, too, was pushing his way free of the group and running.
The shock of his touch, a thunderclap of joy as his strong arms lifted her off her feet, holding her suspended, his face buried in the crook of her neck. He smelled of hard travel, of leather and wood smoke. She breathed deeply.
“Thank the gods. I searched everywhere,” he said with a husky voice.
“Magnus, Mag—” 
His mouth covered hers, his passion laying claim. She’d felt his embrace in a thousand dreams, but now he was here, real, and her body trembled for him.
“I feared I would never find you.” The words strangled in his throat as he kissed her eyes, her lips. “No news ever came. Ah, Gigi, I prayed endlessly to Victoria, but I feared . . . ”

 Love Eternally, Book One of the Roman Time Travel Series, Coming on July 2 from Crimson Romance

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