C21 Absolutely mine

Silas brought her up to him and closed his arms round her.

‘Put me down,’ Avery mumbled in a different voice entirely.

‘I have this appallingly sexist urge to kiss you,’ he whispered in a thickened tone that sent tiny little shivers running down her spine.

‘F-forget it.’

In blatant disagreement, Silas rearranged her even more intimately against him