A Seditious Affair (Society of Gentlemen, #2)

by K.J. Charles

Consideration, that was what it was, and something inside Silas had shifted, just a little bit, at that moment. That tiny piece of thoughtfulness from a gentleman who wanted to be fucked into the gutter, but who noticed how the man in the gutter felt.

“The more you have, the more you have to lose. Your lot have all the advantages and we’ve got one. When you have nothing, you’ve got everything to fight for.” His voice dropped almost to inaudibility, whispered against Dominic’s skin. “And you just gave me everything, so how do I keep fighting now?”

it shouldn’t be fucking charity that kept children from starving and the old folk from freezing, as if the country belonged to the rich by right and everyone else lived at their sufferance and by their whim.