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

her head, staring at the handsome man, thought for

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

first to be dropped

thought, “was one of

are you alone?” Eddie

knew Eileen wasn’t well-liked, but she was still a girl. In this rainforest,

met, he’d heard some people had already been eliminated.

“Was your teammate

casually replied, “Yeah,

for you alone, why

Lucas, “What

the team would slow them down but

“Come over here.”

silent for a moment before leaping down from the tree and walking over.

noticed her empty hands, asked casually, “You run out of supplies? Have you lost your backpack? No worries, we

/we push on.”

ready to move on.

put, “You are not getting

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

the tree, “It’s

that, she stretched her wrists

don’t!” Eddie called out.

also said, “It’s too

didn’t finish his sentence!

he watched as the athletic girl slithered up the tree like a

and Eddie were

minutes later, Eileen jumped down from the tree, a green ribbon clutched in

dusted off her hands, read the words on the ribbon, then looked up to meet two pairs of wide, shocked eyes.

Eileen frowned, “What?”

of excitement, couldn’t hide his awe, “You’re so nimble.”

at Lucas for a moment before

touched his lips, which were already

bucks

was stunned by her

just asking if you

yes, yes, I don’t have the money now, but I promise

have ways to get my money back. Wait, they should be here in

Eddie asked, “They?”

Eddie knew

two, and

handed the green

took a bottle of creek water from Burton’s backpack

it and quickly opened the cap, gulping

he handed the bottle

the water.