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.

couldn’t help but

man, thought

the first to get dressed and

be dropped

guy,” she thought, “was one

you alone?” Eddie

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

had met, he’d heard

“Was

him, casually replied, “Yeah,

hard for you alone, why don’t you

to Lucas, “What do

adding a woman to the team would slow them down but still said, “Sure.”

told Eileen, “Come over

silent for a moment before leaping down from the

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

/we push on.”

were ready to move on.

pockets, stayed put, “You

chuckled bitterly, “We can’t reach that high, that clue is a lost cause.”

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

that, she stretched her wrists and started climbing the

don’t!” Eddie called out.

“It’s too

finish his

tree like a snake,

Eddie were stunned.

Eileen jumped down from the tree, a green ribbon clutched

the words on the ribbon, then looked up to meet two pairs of wide,

Eileen frowned, “What?”

of excitement, couldn’t hide

a moment before asking, “You guys got

subconsciously touched his lips, which were

to Eddie, “One hundred bucks for a bottle of water, deal?”

climbing skills, was stunned by her offer, “You have water?”

“I’m just asking if

money now, but I

I have ways to get my money back. Wait, they

Eddie asked, “They?”

knew what ‘they’ meant.

two, and

green

from Burton’s backpack and tossed

and quickly opened the cap, gulping do

he handed the

the water.

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