Who Needs a Dream? Who Needs Ambition?

Anatoly stared into his cup, considering. "Ah that, yes. I might use their diminutive when talking to them, that is a key thing. I might say darling or dear, or tell them they are my sun."

There were other terms of endearments, and he shared those as well, wondering all the while, just who it was that Lex was planning on charming in Russian.