Of course, of course the book. He really needs to get better at hiding it, and before anyone can see that he even has one. Or he should just stop hiding it and incriminating himself before anyone can even look at the cover, but then what if they ask about it?
HIs life is a hellscape.

"No," he says quickly, almost defensively, and clears his throat. He'd stand up, but the whole point of being here is that he's injured, so he couldn't make a quick getaway if he tried.
Instead he just braces himself, looking like a person who's about to undergo something terribly unpleasant that he just has to grin and bear.