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 exclaim, “Eileen?”

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

first day of the show, Eileen was the first to get dressed and leave, then the other two male

were the first to be

guy,” she thought, “was one of

alone?”

In this

other teams they had met, he’d

asking, “Was your teammate

at him, casually replied,

for you alone, why don’t

looked to Lucas, “What do you think?”

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

“Come over here.”

silent for a moment before leaping down

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

/we push on.”

were ready to

in pockets, stayed put, “You are

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

at the height of the tree, “It’s not that high.”

stretched her wrists and started climbing the tree.

Eddie called out.

“It’s too dangerous, you…”

finish his sentence!

tree like a snake,

Eddie

from the tree, a green ribbon clutched in

the ribbon, then looked

Eileen frowned, “What?”

full of excitement, couldn’t hide

a moment

which were already cracked and bleeding.

to Eddie, “One hundred bucks for a

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

“I’m just asking if you want

I don’t have the money now,

your promise, I have ways

Eddie asked, “They?”

later, Eddie knew what ‘they’

Burton with two, and empty-handed Egbert, slowly approached.

casually handed the green

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

it and quickly opened the cap, gulping

he handed the bottle to Lucas.

the water.

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