"I'm hoping to," Ben admitted. "My current apartment is a little on the Spartan side. But there's a good reason this place has a waiting list. I might not get in before Christmas." He smiled. "Have you lived here long?"
Try as he might he couldn't stop his eyes straying down to the book, which was bad because it was an intrusion into the young man's privacy and also might make him think Ben was checking him out.
Not that he wasn't worth looking at - very striking.