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.

girl, he couldn’t help but exclaim, “Eileen?”

man, thought for

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

first to be dropped

“was one

alone?” Eddie asked.

well-liked, but she was still a girl. In this rainforest,

met, he’d heard

asking, “Was your teammate

casually replied, “Yeah,

hesitated before suggesting, “If it’s hard for

Lucas, “What do you

being a soldier, knew adding a woman to the team would slow them down but

“Come over

leaping down from

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

/we push on.”

they were ready to move on.

“You are not

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

height of the tree,

stretched her wrists and started

don’t!” Eddie called

also said, “It’s too dangerous,

didn’t finish his sentence!

athletic girl slithered up the tree like a snake, already

Eddie

tree, a green ribbon clutched

ribbon, then looked up to meet

Eileen frowned, “What?”

hide his awe,

for a moment

lips, which were already cracked and bleeding.

hundred bucks for a bottle of

skills, was stunned by her offer, “You

asking if you want

don’t have the money now, but

curved into crescents, “If you tried to break your promise, I have ways to get my money back. Wait, they should be here in three

Eddie asked, “They?”

later, Eddie knew what ‘they’

backpack, Burton with two, and

green ribbon

water from Burton’s backpack and tossed

opened the cap, gulping do

drinking half of it, he handed the bottle to Lucas.

the water.

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