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

handsome man, thought for

get

be

guy,” she thought, “was one

you alone?” Eddie asked.

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

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

tried asking, “Was your

him, casually replied, “Yeah, he was.”

suggesting, “If it’s hard for you alone,

“What do you think?”

the team would slow them down but still said, “Sure.”

“Come over

moment before leaping down

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

/we push on.”

were ready to move on.

put, “You are

that high, that clue is a

at the height of the

stretched her wrists

Eddie called

“It’s too dangerous, you…”

finish

up the tree like a

and Eddie were stunned.

jumped down from the tree, a green ribbon clutched

read the words on the ribbon, then looked

Eileen frowned, “What?”

couldn’t hide his awe, “You’re

she stared at Lucas for a moment before asking, “You guys got anything to drink?”

which were already

to Eddie, “One hundred bucks for a

in awe of Eileen’s climbing skills, was

“I’m just asking if

money now, but I

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

Eddie asked, “They?”

later, Eddie knew what ‘they’ meant.

two,

green ribbon to Egbert.

a bottle of creek water from Burton’s backpack

it and quickly opened

half of it, he handed the bottle

the water.

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