A Gentleman's Position Quotes

“...Tell him that I am quite specifically in desperate need of a redheaded bastard."
Julius blinked. "And that will help, will it?”
― K.J. Charles, A Gentleman's Position

“I want you back. I want you as my lover, my right hand, my devious, lying, counterfeiting, entirely unprincipled fox. My valet. I want you blacking my boots, solving my problems, and sharing my bed. I want you to accept a situation of gross injustice with no safeguard except your trust in me. I want you to be that foolish, vulnerable creature, a servant who warms his master's sheets, and only the two of us will know that I am not the master here. And I swear to you, if you will give me that trust, I will be worthy of it. Whatever may befall between us, no matter whether you change your mind, I will always behave as the man I ought to be. The man you need me to be. I love you, David, Will you be with me?”
― K.J. Charles, A Gentleman's Position

“He had no idea if he was being served or mastered now. Both, or neither, it didn’t matter.”
― K.J. Charles, A Gentleman's Position

“I will not be changed!” David shouted, then dropped his voice to a low, vicious hiss. “I am a valet, and a whore’s get, and a redheaded bastard, and if that is not good enough for you, then you may go to the devil, because I will not be reshaped to fit your whim. I’m better than that. I am very well as I am, and if you cannot lower yourself to fuck the man who cleans your boots, you may not have me.”
― K.J. Charles, A Gentleman's Position

“Richard couldn't adorn David's ears with jewels and doubted very much he'd want them. Even the plainest gifts would be attention-grabbing, inappropriate, dangerous. Richard would just have to give his valet the world instead.”
― K.J. Charles, A Gentleman's Position

“Nobody would believe that Richard left evening pleasures promptly because it gave him longer in his valet's company, that he took such care over his clothing because it made two hours' dressing with Cyprian unexceptional. That he would rather talk to a liveried servant than to any of the gentlemen who were his closest friends.”
― K.J. Charles, A Gentleman's Position

“If you tell me no, I will be silent. If you prefer, I shall never ask again. But you should know that I would plead on my knees. If I thought you wanted me there.'

"To win my help?"

"Be damned to your help. I want your mouth, and your hands, and your hair, and your eyes. I want to stop feeling as though half of my world has gone missing. That puts no obligation on you, none at all, but it is the truth. Do as you wish with it.”
― K.J. Charles, A Gentleman's Position

“Such an easy thing, to be liked. All you had to do was make sure people didn’t know you.”
― K.J. Charles, A Gentleman's Position

“The unspoken thing, the forbidden hope, the one point that made David's service feel like servitude because he could not even ask. But Lord Richard still wasn't moving, his deep blue eyes locked on David's and wide with shock, and now they knew. Now they both knew and there was no pretending otherwise.”
― K.J. Charles, A Gentleman's Position

“Dear fellow, he may rip the balls off anyone he sees fit,” Julius said. “Cry havoc, Cyprian, and consider me your dog of war.”
― K.J. Charles, A Gentleman's Position

“valet and your werewolf made a sacrifice of me.”
― K.J. Charles, A Gentleman's Position

“Nobody else. Just as nobody has brought me to my knees as you do. And I should like to be there begging you to comeback to me now, but that's not the issue, is it?"

"No."

"No. I wish it were." Richard sighed. "When you come back to me, my fox, you will do so of your own will. I depend on that.”
― K.J. Charles, A Gentleman's Position

“I don’t, can’t bed men for whom I don’t care.”
― K.J. Charles, A Gentleman's Position

“They did not understand. They thought of Cyprian as a servant when he had been so much more. He”
― K.J. Charles, A Gentleman's Position

“Such an easy thing, to be liked. All you had to do was make sure people didn't know you.”
― K.J. Charles, A Gentleman's Position

“Sono qui. Non andrò mai via.
Le dita di entrambi erano intrecciate ai capelli dell’altro ormai: le grandi mani di Lord Richard che si muovevano tra le sue lunghe ciocche dritte come se volessero prenderne una manciata e David che sentiva la sensazione familiare dei ricci sotto le dita come se non li avesse mai toccati prima. Le labbra di sua signoria erano aperte sulle sue in baci avidi ed esigenti, le lingue intrecciate. Un piacere così intenso da fare quasi male.”
― K.J. Charles, A Gentleman's Position

“Potete chiedermi tutto quello che volete. Le parole rimasero in sospeso sulle sue labbra. Avrebbe voluto pronunciarle. Dio solo sapeva quanto fossero vere. Ma era col suo padrone che stava parlando e non poteva dire ciò che davvero aveva nel cuore.”
― K.J. Charles, A Gentleman's Position

“That’s different.” “People always say that, you know,” Julius observed. “And yet, somehow, it never is. Here we are.” They”
― K.J. Charles, A Gentleman's Position