“Calm down?! My entire political career has gone down the shitter and you just expect me to ‘calm down’?!” Adrien shouted. Taking in a sharp breath, he cradled his brow bone between his index finger and thumb, thinking for a moment. None of it was good. “My wife. I’ll have to tell her tonight before she finds out from the press—If she hadn’t been told already. God, I’ve lost my job and my marriage.”
“There’s ways to come back from this,” Luka reassured him. “Worse people have recovered. You’ve got a pretty face, I’m sure that’ll do you some favors.”
Adrien raised his head again to look Luka in the eye. “You don’t get it. I can’t come back from this—Not with what I sold myself as. Prime Minister Adrien Agreste isn’t meant to make mistakes even half as severe as this.”
“Mistakes?” Luka asked, his words carrying the question of ‘As in getting fucked in the bathroom?’.
‘As in you’, was what Adrien meant. The look in his eyes gave all the confirmation Luka needed.
“M. Agreste, I.. I apologize for this brief honesty, truly, I do. But you’re not infallible. Something like this was going to happen eventually. If not me, then someone else.”
“Get out of my office, Couffaine.”
“-You can throw me away now that I’m no longer useful to you, now that you realize you’re finally being cost something, but this is just as much your fault as it is mine!”
“Couffaine, I told you I want you out of my office.”
“Was this always going to happen, Adrien? Even if we were never caught?”
Adrien slammed his open palm onto the surface of his desk, the other arm pointing straight to the door. Luka’s jaw clenched as he stepped back.
“Fine. But my help, M. Prime Minister, is the only thing you have left.” Luka snatched his coat from where it was draped over one of the chairs in Adrien’s office. “I’ll let you think of what you want to say for a bit for when you come crawling back to me.”