Lex would blame it on the odd situation he found himself in, stranger then anything Smallville could dream up, for the fact that he flinched when Anatoly spoke his former lover's name. Sure it was in his eyes and in one corner of his lips, but it was there all the same.

But a Luthor always approached their problems head on and at the moment, Lex needed to be a Luthor, for Anatoly's sake. "We need to talk to her. First and foremost." He gave Anatoly a soft comforting kiss to silence any protest." She deserves it and she will probably be our only ally." That and Lex needed all the information he could get and between the two of them, he had no doubt he could get it.