He gets three whole luxurious days to spend with his Sasha and his Lev before he meets the prince.
"It's pretty common and I do think it's cute that you've never encountered it before but I don't personally find it hot."
He checks the back cover of The Virgin And The Beast, then puts it on the pile.
"Oh, huh, there's an erotic photography section now."
Lev goes to look at Gorgeous Redheads: The Hottest Redheaded Women On The Planet.
There sure is.
There are a slightly bizarre number of books with photos of beautiful men artfully tied up, even considering the weirdness of having an erotic photography section in the first place.
Lev puts down Gorgeous Redheads and picks up a copy of Wholesome Beauties, which appears to consist solely of chubby large-breasted women smiling hugely while doing jumping jacks or swimming or feeding cows.
Feminist, huh.
Yeah, he'll take a copy of that. Is there anything in this bookstore with Hilda, Sasha thinks Lev would like Hilda.
The kind designed for a gay man who might or might not enjoy Hilda! But thank you Erogame.
"I'm not even into it as porn I just love it as character design, she has so much personality."
Lev kisses him. "I like it when you look at me like that. You have great character design."
This is such an excellent plan.
At some point, however, Lev will have to go to the bathroom.
This is true. (With quite a bit of effort Sasha has managed to internalize that cis men think it's weird to go to the bathroom in groups; he doesn't follow.)
When he comes back, he says, "just checking-- there wasn't a glory hole in the bathroom of the bookstore a week ago, right?"
The random dick has not gone away in the time it took to get there and back.
Lev sits back on his heels, looks at it, touches it gingerly.
Sasha kneels down next to Lev, watches him for a few seconds, then leans forward and licks it.
Lev leans forward and very cautiously licks it too, then kisses it again, more confidently.