Defying Fate: The Unstoppable Eileen

Chapter 89

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.

he couldn’t help but

head, staring at the handsome man, thought for a

first to get

to be dropped into the jungle.

thought, “was one of them.”

alone?”

still a girl. In this rainforest, survival was much

other teams they had met, he’d heard some people had already been

asking, “Was

glanced at him, casually replied, “Yeah,

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

Lucas, “What

soldier, knew adding a woman to the team

told Eileen, “Come over

for a moment before leaping down from the tree and

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

/we push on.”

were ready to move on.

pockets, stayed put, “You

bitterly, “We can’t reach that high, that clue is a

glanced at the height of the tree, “It’s not that

that, she stretched her wrists

don’t!” Eddie called

also said, “It’s

finish his sentence!

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

Eddie were

from the tree, a green ribbon clutched in her

words on the ribbon, then looked up to

Eileen frowned, “What?”

couldn’t hide his

stared at Lucas for a moment

lips, which were already cracked and bleeding.

hundred bucks for a bottle

in awe of Eileen’s climbing skills, was stunned by her

asking if you want

the money now, but I promise I’ll

curved into crescents, “If you tried to break your promise, I have ways to get

Eddie asked, “They?”

Eddie knew what

with two,

handed the green

a bottle of creek water from Burton’s backpack and tossed it

opened the

drinking half of it, he handed

the water.

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