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.

the girl, he couldn’t help but

her head, staring at the handsome man, thought for a moment before

was the first to get dressed and

were the first to be dropped into

thought, “was one

are you alone?” Eddie asked.

girl. In this rainforest, survival was much harder

they had met,

tried asking, “Was your teammate eliminated?”

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

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

“What do you

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

Eileen, “Come over here.”

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

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

/we push on.”

were ready to move

in pockets, stayed put, “You are not getting that clue?”

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

of the

her wrists and started climbing the

don’t!” Eddie

“It’s too dangerous,

finish

tree like a snake, already reaching the first branch and skillfully continuing

Eddie

minutes later, Eileen jumped down from the tree,

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

Eileen frowned, “What?”

of excitement, couldn’t hide his awe,

stared at Lucas for a moment before asking, “You

which were already cracked and bleeding.

turned to Eddie, “One hundred bucks for

still in awe of Eileen’s climbing skills, was stunned by her offer, “You have

just asking if you want

now, but

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

Eddie asked, “They?”

later, Eddie knew what ‘they’ meant.

with two, and empty-handed Egbert,

casually handed the green ribbon to Egbert.

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

it and quickly opened

of it, he

the water.