166 Eve's family

Sitting on the bed, I had Eve's head on my lap as she recounted what I know about her past so far. I wondered quite a bit how come she hails from influential family if so far I only knew about her adventures with her father, but it started to make sense with just one sentence.

"My father was the most talented man of the entire clan."

With my hand brushing Eve's hair in slow and steady movements, I could see her chest lifting up and falling down in a slightly unsteady manner. 

"As long as he was on the very top of the food chain, there weren't any problems with the demands from our ancestors and 'uncles', but the moment his brother managed to reach immortal stage with the pills that our clan exchanged most of its fortune for, position of my branch of the bloodline started to slowly dimmish."