"I'm happy, too," he answers, realizing only in the moment just how true it is. "Certainly not what I expected to have happen to me."

He had never bothered making plans. Not after his parents had died, one killing the other, then Marcus killing the remaining while nearly being choked to death himself. Plans were something people made when they had a future and he had never been able to see himself with one.

And yet here he is.