Stupid question (I just started watching, finally)

It was all about his newly found self confidence being butt hurt that Lorne wouldn't confirm knowing him. Lester, still being Lester was so hurt by this that he wasn't able to ' read the room ' as to why Lorne wouldn't acknowledge him......until it was too late!

I was wondering this myself. At first when he saw him, I figured Lester would quickly scamper back to his room and hope that Malvo didn't see him. Then when he actually went up and tried talking to him, I was like, "What the fuck is wrong with you, dude?"

In the beginning of the season, the way they met and everything, that was all kind of a giant misadventure that Lester stumbled ass-backward into, so I figured now that he made it out alive, and his life was finally where he wanted it, why would he go and fuck with that? Like was he just stupid enough that he thought that Malvo wouldn't fuck with him when pressed? Or, possibly, was Lester almost kind of wanting that thrill of danger again, ya know? Whether consciously or not, maybe he was wanting to kind of flirt with disaster a bit and felt like since he made it out okay last time, he could do that again this time?

I don't know, it was just very frustrating to me.