They had barely gotten started and Eddie's heart seemed so easy to play with, so it really was with some reluctance that Claudia had to obey her instincts. She was quickly wrapping both arms around his neck, perhaps overly intimate for the offer to help her up, all the more for the happy sigh she breathed against his jaw. He had barely gotten half way up, where Claudia could still be on her toes with her arms now possessively around him, when her cold lips brushed his neck, teasing the flutter of his enticing pulse. The slide of her teeth was just as gentle, fangs gliding through flesh like a chaste kiss, and only tearing a second later when her steely embrace was suddenly gone.