Defying Fate: The Unstoppable Eileen

Chapter 89

The weather was scorching hot, and water was scarce.

Newbie Lucas and celeb Eddie, were running on empty, having not had a drop of water for over fifteen hours.

“You okay?” Eddie grunted as he pulled out the last crumbly biscuit from his backpack and offered it to Lucas, “take this.”

Leaning heavily against a hefty tree, Lucas tried to keep his balance. He looked at the biscuit, his voice raspy, “No, you keep it.”

Eddie insisted, “No, eat it. It’s been too long since you’ve had anything.”

Lucas didn’t respond.

Eddie felt bad, “I’m sorry, it’s all my fault. If it wasn’t for me, you wouldn’t have hurt your leg. How’s your leg now?”

Lucas shook his head, “It’s okay, I’ve been through survival training before, this injury isn’t gonna stop me.”

They fell into a brief silence.

After a while, Eddie split the last biscuit into two and said, “We’ll share.”

This time, Lucas hesitated a moment before accepting his half.

They finished the biscuit.

Eddie felt bitter.

A single biscuit had to feed two people.

The taste of the biscuit didn’t even linger for three seconds before it was gone.

The atmosphere between them grew heavy again.

Suddenly, Lucas looked up, staring at the tree top, “Is there something hanging up there?”

Eddie squinted, “Looks like a green ribbon? Can’t really tell.”

“It’s a ribbon!” Lucas started to gauge how high the ribbon was and eventually shook his head, “I can’t reach, it’s too high.”

The tree was massive, the ribbon was tied at the very top, nearly five stories high.

No ordinary Joe could climb that high without safety gear, and if anything went south, the fall would be disastrous.

Eddie sighed, “If we miss this green ribbon, we’ll lose another clue. The last blue ribbon was tied to a freaking crocodile, that was

nuts…”

“Crocodile? What kind of crocodile? Where’d you see it?”

Suddenly, a voice came from behind, scaring the bejesus out of Lucas and Eddie!

They turned to see a camouflaged, pretty young girl perched on a tree not far away, swinging her legs, watching them.

girl, he couldn’t help but

turned her head, staring at the handsome man, thought for a moment before replying, “Hey,

the show, Eileen was the first to get dressed and leave, then the other two male guests came

first to be dropped

she thought, “was one

are you alone?” Eddie asked.

was still a girl. In this rainforest, survival was much harder for girls than

thought about the other teams they had met, he’d heard

“Was

glanced at him, casually replied, “Yeah, he

it’s hard for you alone, why don’t you

looked to Lucas, “What do

adding a woman to the team would slow them down

“Come

a moment before leaping

“You run out of supplies? Have you lost your backpack? No worries, we can find water if

/we push on.”

ready

hands in pockets, stayed put, “You are not getting that

turned back, chuckled bitterly, “We can’t reach that high,

of the

her wrists and started climbing

Eddie called

“It’s too

finish his sentence!

as the athletic girl slithered up the tree like a snake, already reaching the first branch and skillfully continuing her

and Eddie were stunned.

down from the tree, a green

off her hands, read the words on the ribbon, then

Eileen frowned, “What?”

hide

stared at Lucas for a moment

lips, which were already cracked

“One hundred bucks for a

of Eileen’s climbing skills, was stunned by her offer,

just asking if

money now, but

your promise, I have ways to get my money back. Wait, they should be

Eddie asked, “They?”

minutes later, Eddie knew what ‘they’

Burton with two, and empty-handed Egbert,

the green ribbon to Egbert.

of creek water from Burton’s backpack and

it and quickly opened the

he handed the bottle to

the water.