Here's another quote from the same story..

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"...Why shouldn't you try to
steal his wife too?" Lois snapped at him.

"Because he would never forgive me?" Lex half-jested.

"You're right. Touch a hair on her head and you're a dead
man." Clark's voice was calm but deadly.

Tempus who was still hovering near the door snorted. "How
arrogant can you be? Here you are, our captive, your fate
in our hands, and you would issue out threats?"

Once again, Lois noticed a slip in Lex's demeanor.
(Hope this helps).

If she had to move heaven and Earth, perhaps come back to haunt Perry and explain the story after they'd killed her, she would do it.

Waking a Miracle by Aria