Claude doesn't resist the embrace, but it does take him a few moments to fully relax into it, tentatively putting his arms around Lorenz's lower back to avoid touching any of his wounds.

"I assumed," he starts, voice slightly muffled by Lorenz's shoulder, "you were having second thoughts. If your heart's not in it, this isn't going to work."

He also knows that sorting through Lorenz's feelings isn't like flipping a switch, but Claude doesn't want to be the cause of so much anguish for him, either. He leans back a little to get a look at Lorenz's face. "But if that's not the case, what can I do to help make things easier?"