Mostly he was just curious to see where this was going, and that reply had his smile twitching into place again, rolling up onto his knees -mostly just to gauge the distance- before closing both hands around her waist and just picking her up to sit her on top of the dresser, hiking her slip up around her hips as he did so.

He made another quiet sound then, something almost smug and entirely self-satisfied, finding that she was, in fact, right at the perfect height. He shifted himself closer then, nudging one shoulder up under her knee so that he could turn to press a string of kisses to the inside of her thigh.