THE LAST HEIR
by Larry Sun

An excerpt from The Last Heir, the first volume
of the HOUSEHOLD series.

June, 1985.

The night was not the warmest one. A few stars
peeked down on the world and a quarter moon
played hide and seek behind the scattering
clouds. Cain Martins was hungry; he hadn’t
eaten any food today, not like he always had
much to eat before–– he was always hungry.
Even before his starvations, Cain had always had
a big appetite. Often he was ravenous; at times
his hunger seemed almost insatiable. He’d just
been released from the hospital and he was a
man without a job. Cain Martins was a nobody––
he had no one, no family; the mother he’d grown
to know and not love had died eight years ago.
He didn’t even know his own father. Cain Martins
was virtually homeless.[right][/right]

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