Lucien never liked to leave his suite during heat week. So much so he didn't go to council meetings during the week. He didn't have control over himself and refused to take the garbage the castle pushed as suppressants. If he was going to take any he'd make them. Obviously it wasn't something his company made currently because the market was small in the grand scheme of things and there were far better things to sink R&D into for profits, which is all Lucien cared about in the end. He wasn't supposed to go through heat anyway. That was something Noel did and he should suffer because he was insufferable and always had been.
There had a been a lot of different things happening lately because of what Lucien was and eventually going to be, which made his craving for witches worse. He'd thought spending time with Raphael and having Kaden back would fix it and even dabbled with Merek, but there was old magic in the castle and he'd tasted it before which was why he was heading to see the councilman of Greece.
Any other day Lucien was sure he would have let it go, in fact, he had for months because he knew. Of course he knew. How couldn't he know. It wasn't as if Tiernan or Noel were being discrete by any means and why Tiernan thought he could do such a thing as a councilman as if the rules didn't apply to him. Not that Lucien himself hadn't associated in the same ways with certain staff throughout his stays, but this was different. It was Noel and Tiernan had no right. Such were the moroi's thoughts as the two councilmen approached and soon enough passed each other in the hall.
Up to that point the two had not had any interactions save for during council meetings and the occasion passing, such as this, in a hall, with a half-hearted pleasantry given to move past each other. Or that's how it should have gone but Lucien couldn't let it go this time. "Off to see my brother are you?" Lucien asked as he turned to glare at Tiernan's back. "You do know he's using you, councilman or are you as ignorant as your country is portrayed."