"Oh!" Well that's one way to distract the Brit. He turns to look at the neat stack of books and tries not to laugh at the cover and the first couple of titles. Oh that's terrifying but he doesn't want to undermine the nice thing that Marc did for him.

Reaching over, Steven grins as he picks up the book from the top. The cover looks so cheesy! Who knew Marc was into these kinds of... legal secretary has issues paying the rent, gets a side hustle being a lady of the night, and witnesses a murder on her way home, steals a pack of cigarettes from the corpse that happens to contain a pendrive with nuclear codes kind of trash? He can't help but laugh as he shuffles up to the headboard, settles cross-legged in bed and starts opening the cover.

"I didn't know you were into horror," Steven muses as he starts the page turner. Mostly it's horrifying how bad the writing is. At least it doesn't open straightaway to her moaning while a strange man ploughs and grunts on top of her.

When Marc emerges out of the shower he will find Steven's eyebrows telling a story of their own, rising and falling as he giggles over the over the topness contained in the first chapter alone.