"You keep being nice to me, and I might think you actually care," Claudia half-teased. This was hard for both of them, at least, she assumed it was. Gabriel needed to keep an eye on her to keep his cover from being blown, and she didn't have anywhere else to be.

Still, it was kind of him to give her some semblance of comfort without making things more awkward. "You need me to put up wards or anything?"

Since those pretty much required human blood as one of the ingredients.