Defying Fate: The Unstoppable Eileen

Chapter 96

Chapter 96

Elaine’s words must’ve been a hell of a shocker, ’cause everyone around fell silent.

Burton felt embarrassed, his face turning red. He quickly approached and pulled Elaine away.

Elaine struggled all the way.

Eileen stood still for a moment before gently patting Egbert’s arm. He turned to look at her.

Eileen looked puzzled and asked, “What’s her deal?”

“She wants to team up with you.” Before Egbert could speak, Eddie chimed in with a laugh.

As soon as Eddie finished speaking, he seemed to get a bright idea. He threw his arm around Lucas’ shoulder and said, “Let’s form an alliance too. We’ve been through hell and back together.”

Lucas shrugged off Eddie’s arm and walked towards Egbert, saying, “Mr. Reed, I want to take another look at the map.”

Egbert put his pocketknife away. He glanced back at Eileen, then he and Lucas went off to the side to discuss their route.

After a while, Burton and Elaine returned.

Eileen was lounging in the branches of a large tree! With her legs crossed and a blade of grass in her mouth, she was sneakily watching the siblings below.

Seeing her gaze, Burton called out, “Auntie.”

Elaine stood behind Burton, and she also seemed a bit shy now, sneakily watching Eileen and mumbling along, “Auntie.”

Eileen laughed, ignored them, and beckoned two little white monkeys over.

A few minutes passe. Egbert folded up the map and said, “There are two paths, one short and one long.”

Eddie was stumped, asking, “What’s the difference?”

said, “The longer way around might take three or four days to reach the exit. But the shorter route is much closer. If we go fast, we may reach the exit

said, “Then we should

lounging in the tree, casually asked, “Is the short

and said, “There’s a river.

raised an eyebrow, “Is the river wide?”

“It’s not

down from the tree, hands on hips, and said, “Then let’s take the short route. No matter how wide the river is, we can always

few more days, they’d lose too much time. If other teams got out

the end, everyone agreed to take

hour when they saw the bridgeless

saying, “That’s manageable. We can

the river, shaking her head and saying, “We can’t swim

was puzzled, “Why not?”

picked up a stone from the

teeth emerged from the water, snapped up

visibly

is

leaned on Lucas’ shoulder, lamenting, “The showrunners are really too much. Never mind, let’s play it safe and

nor Egbert said a

one requires us to cross it. We can’t just swing across, and even if we could, how would

the river and said, “Isn’t that

the other

river for a while, then suddenly turned to Eddie and said, “Give me ten grand, and I’ll help you

that his eyes widened

prize money for third place is almost gone. The last bit of the money will just round it off. I won’t ask for more, just put my bank account info for the prize

completely stunned. Just as he was about to speak, Lucas pulled Eddie aside and asked Eileen, “How are you going to help us

“I have my ways.”

pondered for a moment, then nodded, “If you can get us across the river, the money’s yours.”

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